How about some nice grilled whale with mercury sauce?
Japanese students served toxic whale meat
The Daily Telegraph - August 01, 2007 —WHALE meat served in school lunches in an area of rural Japan is contaminated with alarming levels of mercury, a local assemblyman said today, 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 450km 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...more…
If an assemblyman from Taiji, famous for its annual bloody roundup and slaughter of dolphins, is against serving whale meat, basically there nobody left in Japan who wants to eat it. Note that in the photo at the top, the price on the package of whale is 560 yen—less than five bucks and less than a comparable package of beef—however, most Japanese under the age of 40 have never eaten whale.
Looking out my window right now I see my neighborhood sushi shop that serves whale and I wonder what they plan to serve in the future since tuna for sushi is also under a dark cloud—See The New York Times:Time to Go Easy on the Sushi? Study Finds High Mercury Levels. I guess they will have to find other red-colored substitutes like smoked deer meat and raw horse.
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