Fears of mercury poisoning cast a pall on dolphin hunt in Japan - International Herald Tribune
Finally, it would appear that publicity about the high mercury levels in the meat of slaughtered Japanese dolphins might be causing some local reaction against the dolphin hunt.
It's interesting to note that the recent "mercury in tuna sushi" story from New York said that the FDA "action level" for mercury in fish is 1 part per million, and the highest level found in the New York samples was 1.4 ppm.
In the dolphin meat, one sample was 100 ppm, and the Japanese "safe" level for fish generally is .4 ppm, yet for some reason it says that this does not apply to dolphin meat! Pilot whale meat has come in at 11 ppm.
Extraordinary figures, hey?
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Anonymous, there is nothing cultural or traditionl about the big factory ships and whale hunting boats that are plying the southern ocean right now. If minke wales are so plentiful why isn't Japan, doing it's hunting closer to home? The answer is clear there are not that many left. True there may have been some scattered villages that practised traditional whale hunting similar to the Inuits and Makah in North america, but not the wholesale, commercial, raping of the ocean that Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China are involved in in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, long with the Americans and Europeans in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific. Japan tries to potray it's self as a progressive, modern culture. To be be progressive you have to change. No country is perfect, all need to admit their mistakes and Move On. To stubbornly refuse to do so is STUPID. This world does not belong to one group of people, who feel they can do whatever they want. Remember what happened to Japan the last time they thought that. Ther are still people who feel more atomic bombs should have been dropped on Japan. Is that right, no it is not, neither is Japan's arrogant attitude.
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