海豚肉 可以給人類食嗎? 注意:是海豚,不是河豚

海豚肉 可以給人類食嗎?
Yes. Hunting dolphins by driving them together with boats and then usually into a bay or onto a beach. Their escape is prevented by closing off the route to the open sea or ocean with boats and nets. Dolphins are mostly hunted for their meat. Dolphins are hunted this way in several places around the world. The largest number of dolphins are hunted using this method in Japan, however the practice also occurs on
2.1 Solomon Islands
2.2 Kiribati
2.3 Faroe Islands
2.4 Peru
2.5 Taiwan
2.6 Hawaii

An article about hunting of dolphin in a Japanese town in TIME Magazine on Thursday, Oct. 04, 2007 (http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1668448,00.html)

Postcard: Taiji
"Children in Taiji often wolf down tasty school lunches of short-finned pilot whale. Deep-fried dolphin and sweet-and-sour minke whale are also occasional cafeteria offerings in this small fishing town, where sea mammals have long been considered a reliable source of protein. Taiji (pop. 3,600) is proudly regarded as the birthplace of Japan's 400-year-old whaling industry. But Hisato Ryono, a local assemblyman whose uncle used to work as a commercial whaler, is having second thoughts about schools serving his sons flippered fare. Not because he is finally bowing to international opposition to the hunting of dolphins, which scientists rank among the most intelligent animals. Or because he is suddenly horrified by Taiji's annual dolphin cull, which starts in September and ends in so much bloodshed that the area's cerulean coves literally turn red............................... "

This article showed the hunting of dolphin supporting the entire business for the town (including soveniour making, dolphin meat can, dolphin meat jerky, dolphin meat pet food, dolphin meat snack.......etc)


有什麼營養?
full of proteins, omega-3 fatty acids, toxins such as mercury, methylmercury, cadmium, Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).
One of the toxins found in the meat is mercury, which can cause damage to the brain and nervous system and death at comparatively low doses (possibly as low as 10 mg/kg). Organic mercury such as methylmercury is even more toxic than non-organic species. Cadmium is another toxic metal that has been associated with kidney and renal failure, and death at higher doses. Some PCBs are thought to be carcinogenic, and may cause behavioural and memory problems. DDT is also thought to be a carcinogen as well as a neurotoxin.

不可以!!

no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!no way eat