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To: pleasenoobama
This article long on assertions and short on credible citations.


. . . 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.

6 posted on 09/05/2009 9:32:10 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Health Care Reform has met the DEATH Panel.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
The only cites you can find showing really high levels in dolphin meat found in present day Japanese markets are, themselves, dated from 1981, or analytical articles produced in 1991 about those studies from 1981.

The high mercury level dolphins are also from Indo-China.

16 posted on 09/05/2009 9:54:14 AM PDT by muawiyah
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