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Those poor dolphins! But I guess at least now they have a defense to fight back against the Japanese and prevent their merciless slaughter, just like our soldiers!
1 posted on 09/05/2009 9:10:26 AM PDT by pleasenoobama
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To: pleasenoobama

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.


2 posted on 09/05/2009 9:12:55 AM PDT by muawiyah
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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].


3 posted on 09/05/2009 9:15:02 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Proud Sarah-Bot.)
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To: pleasenoobama
I wonder if this is not just propaganda...
Democrats hate every successful business venture..
Mining, oil exploration, logging, or pretty much any natural resource being exploited..

Could be.. DEMOCRATS SEEM to hate people...
especially non leftist people..

5 posted on 09/05/2009 9:26:44 AM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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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: pleasenoobama

"The dolphins make me cry...."
7 posted on 09/05/2009 9:34:44 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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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.


10 posted on 09/05/2009 9:45:31 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: pleasenoobama

Eating apex predators is usually not a good idea as they concentrate the bad chemicals of their food victims.


18 posted on 09/05/2009 9:55:16 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Obamacare is "Shovel Ready".)
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To: pleasenoobama

More environmentalist lies!


20 posted on 09/05/2009 10:00:27 AM PDT by dalereed
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I don’t understand how eating the dolphin is different from eating a pig or cow.


21 posted on 09/05/2009 10:00:35 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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Lucky Japanese. Tuna just doesn’t taste right since they took the dolphin out of it.


25 posted on 09/05/2009 10:20:31 AM PDT by Clay Moore (Obama: A good example of why stupid people shouldn't vote.)
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Free Republic is not the place for animal rights activism, so stuff it.
28 posted on 09/05/2009 10:33:17 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps...)
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