Mongabay: Japan's dolphin hunt of Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides dalli) could be making people sick, according to a new study by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Campaign Whale. The controversial hunt, which kills some 15,000 dolphins annually, produces cheap meat-for-consumption that on average contains over double Japan's limit on mercury contamination.
"We are very concerned that people in Japan are threatening their health and possibly that of their children by unwittingly eating Dall’s......
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Japanese making themselves sick with dolphin hunt
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 1st, 2010
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