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.
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You're not alone in that...
and I bet you were riding that bicycle without a helmut,...weren’t you? Just how did we ever make it this far?
It was a bad stupid joke and I apologize. I was not thinking at all.
My grateful regards to your grandfather.
I think the Japan version really is Flipper, rather than the fish served in the States. Another unusual thing served in Japan is whale meat (from non endangered species).
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