The Japan Times has taken a very front line position in running articles criticising the annual dolphin slaughter in one part of Japan.
The result: this year's quota increased, and the killing season extended.
Given that the meat has been convincingly shown as unsafe to eat, it is a really bizarre exercise:
The creatures' meat is even included in school meals, and though the government knows full well it is toxic — up to 87 times the permitted level of methyl mercury was found in a joint Japanese/New Zealand 2005 academic study of samples bought from shops (see JT, Nov.1, 2006) — it seems it will do nothing now, perhaps preferring some scapegoating and deep bowing when awful human afflictions arise in the future. And as for Japan's meek vernacular media, well don't wait for them to raise a stink.
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