Miami Vegan Blog
Thursday, August 2, 2007
Whalemeat toxic - Japanese schools
Reuters Photo: A wholesaler prepares to sell whale meat at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo December...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Whalemeat served in school lunches in an area of rural Japan are contaminated with alarming levels of mercury, a local assemblyman said on Wednesday, calling for a halt in plans for the meat to be shipped to schools nationwide.
Hisato Ryono, a assemblyman in Taiji, a historic whaling town some 450 km (280 miles) west of Tokyo, said two samples of short-finned pilot whale had mercury levels 10 to 16 times more than advised by the Health Ministry.
The samples, bought from two local supermarkets, also had 10-12 times more methyl mercury than advised levels, he said.
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Shocking!
"...more methyl mercury than advised levels..."
That's a scary statement.
"...more methyl mercury than advised levels..."
That's a scary statement.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
This Is Why I'm A Vegan!!!
If you can watch this video without tears rolling down your face, keep doing what you're doing. I think I must've been an animal in my previous life, because whenever I see animals suffer, it feels so personal and present. Wake up and realize what we're doing to ourselves. Stop being apathetic. Don't call yourself an environmentalist, if you won't take Earth and all its beings into consideration. Stop being a HYPOCRITE!!! Save your publicity and press releases and documentaries about global warming, if you won't consider the human hand in animal suffering and the bad karma that is boomeranging itself back to us. Save your TIME AND MONEY and attach it to something meaningful. Live Earth is nothing without the mention of animal suffering. It's just a band-aid that will blow off if we don't open our eyes to the truth. Humans, as a whole, are ruining this planet. The ignorants are running the country, looking the other way, hiding their hands, playing dumb, doing the minimum, ... wake up ... PLEASE!
Labels: animal rights, animal welfare, earth, environment, fishing, global warming, japan, ocean, planet, whales
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