"The dolphins make me cry...."
Posted on 09/05/2009 9:10:26 AM PDT by pleasenoobama
Within 12 months, the Japanese were killing more than 40,000 dolphins every year. Most were fed to children in school meals, with the rest being exported to China.
Ironically, recent scientific research suggests that the Japanese authorities might be endangering the health of their own children through this practice.
Dolphin meat is full of toxic mercury, cadmium, DDT and carcinogens such as dioxins and PCBs. Some cuts of dolphin meat have more than 5,000 times the safe level of mercury. Such levels can very quickly lead to severe nervous system problems and even insanity.
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes. These poisons become concentrated in fish, which the dolphins then eat. And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Worth thinking about, the “seas around Japan” are also full of runoff from gigantic volcanoes. I seriously doubt industry holds a candle against the stuff that’s already there and has been for thousands of years.
In the meantime we go to great lengths to be sure our tuna fish is dolphin free. Why can’t two fish be killed with one stone? Go back to the old dolphin-full net trawlers and reporpoise the dolphins [pun intended].
Where is the DDT coming from which is polluting the poor dolphins? Has the bad American capitalists been dumping it is the oceans to get rid of it? Situation pends.
Could be.. DEMOCRATS SEEM to hate people...
especially non leftist people..
. . . recent scientific research suggests that the Japanese authorities might be endangering the health of their own children through this practice.
What research?
Dolphin meat is full of toxic mercury, cadmium, DDT and carcinogens such as dioxins and PCBs.
What does "full of" actually mean?
Some cuts of dolphin meat have more than 5,000 times the safe level of mercury.
Which cuts? How prevalent is this level in dolphin meat cuts?
Such levels can very quickly lead to severe nervous system problems and even insanity.
In the dolphins?
The dolphin meat is so toxic because the seas around Japan have become a soup of industrial wastes.
Where is the citation for this hyperbolic assertion?
And when the Japanese eat the dolphins, they progressively poison themselves.
Again, assertions without evidence.
This entire article is political propaganda.
The stuff is only made in India, China and North Korea - allegedly for "disease control" purposes, not agriculture. Maybe "Silent Spring" hasn't yet been translated into Hindi, Mandarin, etc.
This wasn't caused by volcanoes.
The writer destroyed his own credibility when he mentioned DDT as a poison. It is, but only to insects. The Russians tried to poison the Ukrainian leader Yushchenko with a megadose of it. He got a skin rash. Of course, it might have worked better if Yushchenko had been an insect.
Do you know what dolphins eat?
Oh well, you can eat grams of DDT without harm. It’s only in the late Rachel Carson’s formerly-fevered imagination that it poses a danger to humans. The same is true for PCBs. Exposures of thousands of times the “safe” limit can cause a type of acne.
It seems the only current source of DDT is Indo-China ~ so it means the polluters are Commies, not capitalists.
Wow! I didn’t know Flipper was on the menu in Japan. They are great consumers of whale meat, so it makes sense.
But our seafood menus say “mahi-mahi” instead of “dolphin” so nobody will think they’re eating Flipper.
Anyway, this article is pure eco-nut propaganda.
The high mercury level dolphins are also from Indo-China.
And fish eat anything I never eat fish.
Eating apex predators is usually not a good idea as they concentrate the bad chemicals of their food victims.
Date on Minimoto Disease is “1956” ~
More environmentalist lies!
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