MUCH food labelled as whalemeat in Japan is actually from dolphins and porpoises, and exceeds the government’s legal limit for mercury.
That is the claim of the anti-whaling Environmental Investigation Agency, based in London and Washington DC. By releasing its report ahead of next week’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Berlin, the EIA hopes to highlight the dangers of eating whalemeat and undermine Japan’s perennial attempts to resume commercial whaling.
Japan is currently allowed to sell meat from whales caught as part of its “scientific research programme”. Fishermen also sell meat from smaller, toothed cetaceans, such as porpoises…
