Sentences with phrase «as whale meat»
While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.
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The foods most commonly thrown out were special recipe ingredients such as canned whale meat, beef brains, chutney ketchup, quail eggs, and (shudder) hot pepper sauce.
Animal rights activists were celebrating yesterday as a ship carrying 130 tonnes of whale meat finally returned to its home port of Reykjavik.
The FDA has recommended pregnant women, nursing mothers, and young children avoid eating fish with a high mercury content, such as shark, swordfish, tile fish, king mackerel, and whale meat (McCance & Heuther, 2014, p 69).
Tests of whale meat for sale online in Japan last year revealed mercury levels as high as 47.5 times what is considered safe for human consumption.
They don't eat whale meat, they don't regard the right to do so as inalienable, and they are beginning to be heard.
The authors argue that sharks need stronger protections, such as the kind of international agreement that has protected whales, or restrictions to the trade of their fins and meat.
As Subalusky and her colleagues report in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, about 6500 animals drown each year, dumping 10 blue whales» worth of meat into the river.
Other species, such as tiger sharks, are known to be partial to whale meat, but they get it by scavenging.
Critics contend that this research is commercial whaling in disguise as the meat ends up in Japanese restaurants and supermarkets.
Other fats such as lard, tallow, sesame oil, perilla oil, whale oil, meat and egg yolk (all used in the traditional Japanese diet), and even from milk products (used in fairly large quantities today) will raise fat calories to something like 20 - 30 percent of the total.
As a result, Inuit women who eat seal and whale meat have far higher concentrations of PCBs and mercury in their breast milk than women who live in the most industrialized areas of the world, and they pass these poisons to their infants, leaving them susceptible to disease.
My short story «Whale Meat» was down in three days... but how long does it take a server to mark what amounts to a database entry as «unavailable»?
Sibes do not have the digestive system to cope with cereal based foods as originally their main source of food was fish, seal - meat and whale blubber.
In one of the greatest adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton and his crew survived for almost a year and a half on Antarctica, eating seal, penguin and whale meat as sustenance until a small group embarked for South Georgia island for rescue.
Their bloody faces smile as they chew on rancid whale meat.
When the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling was negotiated more than 60 years ago, the main aim was to sustain whale stocks for their only economic value at the time — as a source of oil and meat.
Two, Japan doesn't need the whale meat for food, as it might have during a period of famine or poverty.
As I explain in an article for tomorrow's paper, the humpback is the marquis species of the fast - growing whale - watching industry, which is far larger than the limited trade in whale meat, mainly in Japan and Norway.
I am a middle aged Japanese and I had whale meat once when I was about 8 years old as a sort of a «delicacy.»
Japan's whaling program has struggled financially in recent years, as more Japanese consumers turn up their noses at whale meat and as environmental activists chasing whaling boats make the hunts more difficult.
The Obama administration has strongly criticized Iceland for resuming international trade in the meat from its expanding hunt for fin whales, the second largest whale species and one still listed as endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act.
«Whale curry» made its debut as a takeaway business in Tokyo, attracting curious customers who seldom have the meat amid an international row over hunting the giant mammals.]
The Japanese Government encourages the public to eat whale meat even though it is increasingly unpopular because it has to «save face» as it does not want to give up its right to hunt whales which would be seen as conceding defeat.
Korea reported a catch of 458 during the five years encompassing 1999 - 2003, but genetic testing of whale meat in Korean markets suggests that as many as 827 individual animals were taken through this loophole.
The move came after the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI), launched the report Blood e-Commerce on March 18 exposing Rakuten as the world's biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, and the day after UN International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's fraudulent «scientific» whaling in the Antarctic.
For example, the documentary The Cove revealed that dolphin meat is often packaged as the meat of other whales or fish, so people aren't aware of what they're really eating.
Humane Society International continues to pressure Japan to cease whaling through our efforts at the annual IWC meeting as well as via corporate campaigns, like the recently co-sponsored effort to end the sale of whale meat on Amazon.com's Japanese website.
Meanwhile, even as alternatives to whale oil were developed, so too were powerful new tools for whaling: the exploding harpoon gun that could be used to kill the blue whale and other large, fast - swimming whales, and the factory ships that could render whales into oil and meat on an industrial scale.