DOLPHIN MEAT: REQUEST for WARNING LABEL

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DOLPHIN MEAT: REQUEST for WARNING LABEL

Each year, more than 20,000 dolphins and other small whales are killed and

slaughtered in Japan. The official reason for the killing of dolphins is to

provide the Japanese people with dolphin meat. " Eating dolphins is part of our

culture, " the dolphin hunters have told us again and again. But very few people

in Japan actually eat the meat.

 

Ignoring the fact that dolphin meat is highly contaminated with mercury, the

Japanese government introduced dolphin and whale meat to children's school lunch

programs, in what we see as a rather desperate attempt to support their argument

that the Japanese dolphin slaughter in an issue of food culture. The government

had to pull the meat from the lunch programs, however, when the scandalous facts

about mercury contamination were publicized. The killing of dolphins must stop.

The Japanese people have a right to know that the dolphin meat distributed to

their super markets is poisonous.

 

We demand that a label be placed on each and every package of dolphin meat,

warning the Japanese consumers of the serious health hazards associated with

mercury consumption. If we can make this happen, nobody is going to buy the

contaminated product. It's all about supply and demand!

 

You can help accomplish this goal.

 

Please write a respectful, short letter to Ms. Seiko Noda, Japan's newly

appointed Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food Safety and Science and Technology.

Her e-mail address is: seiko

 

Please CC The World Health Organization at this email address: info

 

Thanks,

-- ric o'barry

www.SaveJapanDolphins.org