It has been claimed that dolphin meat sold in Japan contains 100 times more mercury than the standard permitted by the Japanese government.
According to the British Daily Guardian on the 18th (local time), Australia’s non-profit marine conservation movement ‘Action for Dolphins (ADF)’ purchased two packs of dolphin meat from Yahoo Japan, an online retailer in Japan, in October of last year.
ADF received the meat of ‘Big Nose Dolphin’ from the company and entrusted it to a research institute in Japan for analysis. As a result, mercury was detected at 97.5 times and 80 times the permissible limit, respectively.
The organization filed a complaint with the Japan Metropolitan Police Agency (police), claiming that dolphin meat with high mercury content could threaten the health of consumers. He also urged the government to ban the sale of dolphin meat.
“In the past 10 years, several analyzes have found potentially toxic levels of mercury in whale and dolphin meat sold on Yahoo Japan,” said ADF executive director Hanna Date. Being able to live is a very worrying thing,” he said.
The infamous “dolphin hunt” is held from September to March every year in Taiji, a city on the west coast of Japan. @dolphin_project twitter captureYahoo Japan explained in an email to The Guardian, “We do not handle dolphin meat-related products, and only sell whale meat.”
At the same time, he explained, “The big-nosed dolphin analyzed by ADF is sometimes called a ‘dolphine’ or a ‘pilot whale’. did.
In response, Director Dating refuted that biologically, the bottlenose dolphin belongs to the dolphin family.
The report comes amid internal and external criticism of the notorious “dolphin hunting” that takes place from September to March every year in Taiji, a city on the west coast of Japan. In Daiji, a brutal method of hunting has been carried out in which dolphins are driven into a narrow bay, captured for display purposes, and then stabbed to death with a harpoon.
Source: Donga
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