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> Sea Shepherd News
> News Releases
>
> 10/20/2006
>
> Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>
> On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced
> that they will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins.
> They join Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of
> Japan, in a bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000
> dolphins and small whales annually from October through
> April each year.
>
> Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota
> of how many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt,
> these intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most
> of them suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks,
> and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise of whale
> meat, the highly toxic flesh

> pearl wrote:

> > Sea Shepherd News
> > News Releases
> >
> > 10/20/2006
> >
> > Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
> >
> > On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced
> > that they will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins.
> > They join Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of
> > Japan, in a bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000
> > dolphins and small whales annually from October through
> > April each year.
> >
> > Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota
> > of how many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt,
> > these intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most
> > of them suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks,
> > and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise of whale
> > meat, the highly toxic flesh
>
> Bzzzzt. Wild claim presupposing the presence of polychlorinated biphenyls,
> mercury, lead, arsenic, copper, dioxin, cadmium, et al.

> Kadaitcha Man <> wrote in message
> news:ehp71j$6j5$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>
>> pearl wrote:
>
>>> Sea Shepherd News
>>> News Releases
>>>
>>> 10/20/2006
>>>
>>> Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>>>
>>> On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced
>>> that they will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins.
>>> They join Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of
>>> Japan, in a bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000
>>> dolphins and small whales annually from October through
>>> April each year.
>>>
>>> Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota
>>> of how many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt,
>>> these intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most
>>> of them suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks,
>>> and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise of whale
>>> meat, the highly toxic flesh
>>
>> Bzzzzt. Wild claim presupposing the presence of polychlorinated
>> biphenyls, mercury, lead, arsenic, copper, dioxin, cadmium, et al.
>
> The concentrations of total mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls
> (PCBs),
> and organochlorine pesticides (SDDT, dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene
> [HCB],
> and SHCH) were determined in 61 whale meat products (bacon, blubber,
> red meat, liver, intestine, and tongue) purchased from retail outlets
> across
> Japan. Mean (range) concentrations of contaminants in all samples
> were:
> total mercury 4.17 (0.01-204);SPCB 1.14 (0-8.94);SDDT 0.98 (0-7.46);
> dieldrin 0.07 (0-0.35); HCB 0.06 (0-0.22); and SHCH 0.07 (0-0.19)

>Sea Shepherd News
>News Releases
>
>10/20/2006
>
>Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>
>On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced
>that they will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins.
>They join Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of
>Japan, in a bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000
>dolphins and small whales annually from October through
>April each year.
>
>Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota
>of how many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt,
>these intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most
>of them suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks,
>and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise of whale
>meat, the highly toxic flesh of these animals is marketed to
>the Japanese public in stores and restaurants - poisoning
>their own citizens.

>Dolphin and whale meat can be easily found in Japanese
>food markets. The painted sign written in Japanese says,
>This is marinated whale meat.
>
>Heavily funded by the captive dolphin industry which pays
>upwards of $20,000 per dolphin,

>these drives become a
>lucrative endeavor for these brutal murderers. Only a small
>number of dolphins are actually sold for entertainment
>purposes. According to the Ito Fishing Cooperative,
>aquariums have already ordered a number of dolphins from
>the dive hunt. These dolphins are destined for death in
>captivity in an aquarium, water park, or swim with dolphins
>programs.
>
>The species targeted include the worlds best known dolphin
>- the bottlenose dolphin - along with striped dolphins, spotted
>dolphins, Rissos dolphins, false killer whales, and short-finned
>pilot whales. The status of each population is either threatened,
>endangered, or unknown.
>
>Ever since Sea Shepherd Conservation Society brought the
>atrocity of the dolphin slaughter at Taiji to international
>public attention in October 2003, we have been involved in
>an ongoing campaign to end the slaughter.
>
>Sea Shepherd is the most feared and disliked organization in
>Taiji.

> pearl, the immature moneylender, entreated:
>> Kadaitcha Man wrote...
>>> pearl wrote:
>>
>>>> Sea Shepherd News
>>>> News Releases
>>>>
>>>> 10/20/2006
>>>>
>>>> Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>>>>
>>>> On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced that they will
>>>> continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins. They join Taiji, and
>>>> other small villages along the coast of Japan, in a bloodbath that
>>>> results in the death of over 20,000 dolphins and small whales annually
>>>> from October through April each year.
>>>>
>>>> Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota of how many
>>>> animals can be slaughtered during the hunt, these intelligent mammals
>>>> are corralled into bays, where most of them suffer a long and painful
>>>> death by spears, hooks, and drowning. Then, often sold under the guise
>>>> of whale meat, the highly toxic flesh
>>>
>>> Bzzzzt. Wild claim presupposing the presence of polychlorinated
>>> biphenyls, mercury, lead, arsenic, copper, dioxin, cadmium, et al.
>>
>> The concentrations of total mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
>> and organochlorine pesticides (SDDT, dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene [HCB],
>> and SHCH) were determined in 61 whale meat products (bacon, blubber, red
>> meat, liver, intestine, and tongue) purchased from retail outlets across
>> Japan. Mean (range) concentrations of contaminants in all samples were:
>> total mercury 4.17 (0.01-204);SPCB 1.14 (0-8.94);SDDT 0.98 (0-7.46);
>> dieldrin 0.07 (0-0.35); HCB 0.06 (0-0.22); and SHCH 0.07 (0-0.19) µg/ g
>> (wet weight).The data were used to calculate estimated daily intakes
>> (EDIs)
>> of contaminants at two hypothetical levels of whale meat consumption.
>> These EDIs were compared with FAO/WHO tolerable daily intake (TDI)
>> values for each chemical. EDIs calculated for higher levels of whale
>> meat
>> consumption were in some cases exceptionally high and for many products
>> exceeded FAO/ WHO-TDIs for total mercury, PCBs, and dieldrin, with
>> exceedance factor values (EDI/TDI) for total mercury, PCBs, and dieldrin
>> reaching maxima of 175, 5.36, and 2.1, respectively. For sensitive
>> consumers
>> and those with high-level consumption (e.g., whaling communities),
>> exposure
>> to mercury and to a lesser extent PCBs from certain whale blubber and
>> bacon
>> and striped dolphin liver products could lead to chronic health effects.
>> The
>> Japanese community should therefore exercise a precautionary approach to
>> the consumption of such foods in excess, particularly by high-risk
>> members
>> of the population.
>> http://palumbi.stanford.edu/manuscripts/Simmonds%20et%20al%202002.pdf
>>
>> Mercury in Japans Whale Meat
>>
>> Whale meat and organs have long been featured ingredients in traditional
>> Japanese dishes. Today, the meat and organs of small cetaceans including
>> whale and dolphin are not as widely eaten, but they are readily
>> available
>> throughout Japan. Now scientists have discovered dangerously high levels
>> of mercury in cetacean meat products sold as food there.
>>
>> A whale of a problem. Whale meat, though not widely eaten in Japan, is
>> readily available there. Such meat can contain far more mercury than
>> deemed safe by the U.S. and Japanese governments. image credits: Ezra
>> Clarke/EIA
>>
>> The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare has set the safe
>> level of total mercury at 0.4 parts per million (ppm) for marine foods
>> (the U.S. level is set at 1.0 ppm). Each year, Japan allows more than
>> 22,000 small cetaceans to be legally harvested for food around the coast
>> of Japan, although Naoko Funahashi, Japans representative for the
>> International Fund for Animal Welfare, estimates the actual catch is
>> around 17,000-19,000.
>>
>> Toothed whales--including porpoise, dolphin, and some whale species
>> --are top predators in the sea life food chain. These small cetaceans
>> therefore tend to accumulate higher loads of pollutants such as mercury
>> than do filter feeders such as baleen whales.
>>
>> The real health problem is that some dolphin meat is being mislabeled
>> as baleen whale meat, says Naomi A. Rose, a marine-mammal scientist
>> with The Humane Society of the United States, a Washington, D.C.- based
>> nonprofit organization opposed to commercial whaling. Most consumers
>> cant distinguish the red steaks of small cetacean meat from those of
>> baleen whale meat. Whoever is getting those unlucky packages is getting
>> a lot of contaminants, says Rose. People are playing Russian
>> roulette.
>>
>> Between 2000 and 2002, a team of scientists led by Tetsuya Endo, a
>> professor in the Department of Clinical Toxicology and Metabolism at the
>> Health Sciences University of Hokkaido, purchased whale meat samples
>> from markets across the country. The researchers measured total mercury
>> levels and performed genetic analysis to verify the species
>> of each sample. Their findings were published in the 15 June 2003
>> edition of Environmental Science & Technology.
>>
>> Samples of Dalls porpoise, the most commonly harvested cetacean in
>> Japan, had an average total mercury level of 1.26 ppm, with the highest
>> sample at 2.51 ppm. Samples of false killer whale had an average total
>> mercury level of 46.9 ppm, with a high of 81.0 ppm. Even the levels in
>> baleen whales were high. North Pacific minke whale samples had a total
>> average mercury level of 0.10 ppm. This shows that pollution levels in
>> the ocean are at such a bad level that even filter feeders are
>> bioaccumulating some kinds of contaminants, says Frank Cipriano,
>> director of the Conservation Genetics Laboratory at San Francisco State
>> University.
>>
>> Perhaps even more alarming are the results of a separate study in which
>> the team sampled mixtures of boiled internal organs--sold in packages in
>> retail outlets--for total mercury and essential heavy metals. In samples
>> of boiled small cetacean livers purchased between 1999 and 2001, the
>> researchers found an average total mercury level of 370.0 ppm. Two
>> samples had total mercury levels that topped 1,970.0 ppm.
>>
>> These levels are a thousand times greater than the worst samples that
>> we get in predatory fish in the United States, says Charles Santerre,
>> an environmental toxicologist at Purdue University. With a tuna steak,
>> you might get one part per million of mercury. This problem in Japan is
>> in a different league altogether.
>>
>> In their report, published in the December 2002 issue of The Science of
>> the Total Environment, Endo and colleagues noted that acute mercury
>> intoxication could result from a single meal of whale internal organs,
>> with effects that can include serious nervous system symptoms,
>> staggering, coma, and death. They called on the Japanese government to
>> regulate human consumption of whale and dolphin internal organs.
>>
>> In 2002, a revised Japanese national law required that all fresh seafood
>> products be labeled with the species name. And on 3 June 2003, based on
>> studies suggesting that fetal exposure to methylmercury could harm the
>> developing nervous system, the Japanese health ministry issued a warning
>> to pregnant women to limit consumption of certain whale products to no
>> more than one 60- to 80-gram serving a week and bottlenose dolphin to no
>> more than once every two months.
>>
>> But, says Funahashi, many products still lack a species name, and many
>> have the wrong or false name (there is no penalty for mislabeling).
>> Furthermore, the Japanese word for whale, kujira, can also mean dolphin
>> or porpoise. Some Japanese media have highlighted the mislabeling
>> problem, so more consumers are aware of it, she says. But cetacean meat
>> is [no longer] a common food, so it is not a huge concern among the
>> public--yet.
>>
>> http://www.ehponline.org/docs/2003/111-14/forum.html
>
> Your line length is fux0red.

> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:59:27 +0545, Kadaitcha Man attempted to
> confuse the issue further by squeaking:
>> pearl, the immature moneylender, entreated:
>>> Kadaitcha Man wrote...
>>>> pearl wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Sea Shepherd News
>>>>> News Releases
>>>>>
>>>>> 10/20/2006
>>>>>
>>>>> Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>>>>>
>>>>> On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced that they
>>>>> will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins. They join
>>>>> Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of Japan, in a
>>>>> bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000 dolphins and
>>>>> small whales annually from October through April each year.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota of how
>>>>> many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt, these
>>>>> intelligent mammals are corralled into bays, where most of them
>>>>> suffer a long and painful death by spears, hooks, and drowning.
>>>>> Then, often sold under the guise of whale meat, the highly toxic
>>>>> flesh
>>>>
>>>> Bzzzzt. Wild claim presupposing the presence of polychlorinated
>>>> biphenyls, mercury, lead, arsenic, copper, dioxin, cadmium, et al.
>>>
>>> The concentrations of total mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls
>>> (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (SDDT, dieldrin,
>>> hexachlorobenzene [HCB], and SHCH) were determined in 61 whale meat
>>> products (bacon, blubber, red meat, liver, intestine, and tongue)
>>> purchased from retail outlets across Japan. Mean (range)
>>> concentrations of contaminants in all samples were: total mercury
>>> 4.17 (0.01-204);SPCB 1.14 (0-8.94);SDDT 0.98 (0-7.46); dieldrin
>>> 0.07 (0-0.35); HCB 0.06 (0-0.22); and SHCH 0.07 (0-0.19)

> Demon Lord of Confusion, the free-swimming welder, retched:
>> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:59:27 +0545, Kadaitcha Man attempted to confuse
>> the issue further by squeaking:
>>> pearl, the immature moneylender, entreated:
>>>> Kadaitcha Man wrote...
>>>>> pearl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Sea Shepherd News
>>>>>> News Releases
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 10/20/2006
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Annual Dolphin Slaughter Begins in Japan
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On October 11th, Ito City Fishing Cooperative announced that they
>>>>>> will continue their annual drive hunt of dolphins. They join
>>>>>> Taiji, and other small villages along the coast of Japan, in a
>>>>>> bloodbath that results in the death of over 20,000 dolphins and
>>>>>> small whales annually from October through April each year.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sanctioned by the government of Japan, which gives a quota of how
>>>>>> many animals can be slaughtered during the hunt, these intelligent
>>>>>> mammals are corralled into bays, where most of them suffer a long
>>>>>> and painful death by spears, hooks, and drowning. Then, often sold
>>>>>> under the guise of whale meat, the highly toxic flesh
>>>>>
>>>>> Bzzzzt. Wild claim presupposing the presence of polychlorinated
>>>>> biphenyls, mercury, lead, arsenic, copper, dioxin, cadmium, et al.
>>>>
>>>> The concentrations of total mercury, polychlorinated biphenyls
>>>> (PCBs), and organochlorine pesticides (SDDT, dieldrin,
>>>> hexachlorobenzene [HCB], and SHCH) were determined in 61 whale meat
>>>> products (bacon, blubber, red meat, liver, intestine, and tongue)
>>>> purchased from retail outlets across Japan. Mean (range)
>>>> concentrations of contaminants in all samples were: total mercury 4.17
>>>> (0.01-204);SPCB 1.14 (0-8.94);SDDT 0.98 (0-7.46); dieldrin 0.07
>>>> (0-0.35); HCB 0.06 (0-0.22); and SHCH 0.07 (0-0.19)