O PRATO COM O SABOR DA MORTE ========== JAPAN QUE VERGONHA, NAÇÕES BALEEIRAS, QUE VERGONHA! AGORA ME PROCESSE, COMO FEZ COM 02 ATIVISTAS ACUSADOS POR CRIME POLÍTICO. QUE VERGONHA, JAPÃO, QUE VERGONHA! QUE FORMA COVARDE DE IMPOR MEDO. QUEM É VOCE? REVELAÇÃO EM 2002.
Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat* 10:32 06 June 2002 by Andy Coghlan
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2362-extreme-mercury-levels-revealed-in-whalemeat.html
Tests on whalemeat on sale in Japan have revealed astonishing levels of mercury. While it has long been known that the animals accumulate heavy metals such as mercury in their tissues, the levels discovered have surprised even the experts.
Two of the 26 liver samples examined contained over 1970 micrograms of mercury per gram of liver. That is nearly 5000 times the Japanese government's limit for mercury contamination, 0.4 micrograms per gram.
At these concentrations, a 60-kilogram adult eating just 0.15 grams of liver would exceed the weekly mercury intake considered safe by the World Health Organization, say Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi and Masakatsu Sakata at the University of Hokkaido, who carried out the research. "Acute intoxication could result from a single ingestion," they warn in a draft paper accepted for publication in The Science of the Total Environment.
The researchers call on the government to impose tighter regulations on the consumption of whale organs. In particular, they warn that pregnant women risk poisoning their unborn children. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children around Japan's Minamata Bay were born with horrific birth defects after their mothers ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds, which had been poured raw into the bay since the 1930s. Thousands more suffered brain damage.
Single mouthful
Even veteran researchers from the Minamata saga were shocked by the new figures. "Hirokatsu Akagi, a director of the National Institute for Minamata Disease, was very surprised," says Endo. "He'd never seen levels above 20 micrograms per gram."
On average, concentrations of mercury in whale and dolphin livers were 370 micrograms per gram, 900 times the government limit. Average levels in kidneys and lungs were also high, about 100 times the limit. None of the samples was below the limit.
In work not yet published, Endo's team has shown that rats suffered acute kidney poisoning after a single mouthful of the most highly contaminated liver. While levels were lower in muscle, Endo told New Scientist that on average it still contained 2.5 to 25 times the limit.
The samples came from small-toothed whales and dolphins, catches of which are not restricted by the International Whaling Commission, the international body that regulates whaling. Mercury becomes concentrated in their internal organs when they eat contaminated fish and squid.
Japan continues to campaign vigorously to be allowed to resume full-scale whaling of larger species. But an IWC meeting in May 2002 ended in deadlock.
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SABEMOS QUE A DINAMARCA APOIA A BALEAÇÃO EM FAROÉ ISLANDS, SEUS CONSOLES, MESMO TENDO CONVICÇÃO E ASSUMINDO O RISCO DE CONTAMINAR AS PESSOAS COM OS ALTOS NÍVEIS DE MERCURIO E OUTROS METAIS PESADOS E ATÉ INSETICIDAS DE LAVOURAS, NA CONTAMINAÇÃO DAS BALEIAS PILOTO, PONDO EM RISCO OS SERES HUMANOS E TAMBÉM AOS OUTROS ANIMAIS DAQUELA REGIÃO. SÃO VIDAS EM PERIGO IMINENTE…
ResponderExcluirVEJAMOS A SITUAÇÃO ATUAL:
ESTAMOS COMPARANDO A DINAMARCA AO EGITO NO TEMPO DE FARAÓ, REFERENTE A PASSAGEM BIBLICA.
WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
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FAROE ISLANDS (30 Nov 200 8) — Chief medical officers of the Faroe Islands have
recommended that pilot whales no longer be considered fit for human consumption, because they are toxic - as revealed by research on the Faroes themselves.
The remote Atlantic islands, situated between Scotland and Iceland, have been one of the last strongholds of traditional whaling, with thousands of small pilot whales killed every year, and eaten by most Faroese.
Anti-whaling groups have long protested, but the Faroese argued that whaling is part of their culture - an argument adopted by large-scale whalers in Japan and Norway.
But today in a statement to the islanders, chief medical officers Pál Weihe and Høgni Debes Joensen announced that pilot whale meat and blubber contains too much mercury, PCBs and DDT derivatives to be safe for human consumption.
“It is with great sadness that this recommendation is provided,” they said. “The pilot whale has kept many Faroese alive through the centuries.”
But in “a bitter irony”, they said, research on the impact of the pollutants on the Faroese themselves has shown that mercury, especially, causes lasting damage.
The work has revealed damage to fetal neural development, high blood pressure, and impaired immunity in children, as well as increased rates of Parkinson’s disease, circulatory problems and possibly infertility in adults. The Faroes data renewed concerns about low-level mercury exposures elsewhere.
A SITUAÇÃO DE CONTAMINAÇÃO DAS BALEIAS, ESTÁ CADA DIA MAIS PATENTE E, SEMPRE SURGINDO COMENTÁRIOS E REPORTAGENS ANTIGAS QUE NÃO TINHAMOS CONHECIMENTO, SENÃO VEJAMOS A SITUAÇÃO DO JAPÃO EM PESQUISAS REALIZADAS NO ANO DE 2002 E PUBLICADA ATUALMENTE, MOSTRANDO O NIVEL EXTREMO DE MERCURIO NAS BALEIAS CAÇADAS, O QUE CONSTATAMOS O DESCASO A VIDA HUMANA, QUANDO O PODER, A POLÍTICA E, O VALOR ECONOMICO FALA MAIS ALTO.
ResponderExcluirO PRATO COM O SABOR DA MORTE:
JAPÃO QUE VERGONHA, NAÇÕES BALEEIRAS, QUE VERGONHA! AGORA ME PROCESSE, COMO FEZ COM 02 ATIVISTAS ACUSADOS DE CRIME POLÍTICO, PORQUE DESCOBRIRAM E DENUNCIARAM OS SEUS FURTOS…
QUE VERGONHA, JAPÃO, QUE VERGONHA! QUE FORMA COVARDE DE IMPOR MEDO. QUEM É VOCE? O QUE PRETENDE FAZER DOS SERES HUMANOS, ONDE MUITOS JÁ SÃO COBAIAS PERMANENTES POR NECESSIDADE ATÉ DE USUFRUIR DE SEU PODER ECONOMICO.
PAGAMOS IMPOSTOS, PARA QUE OS PAISES BALEEIROS CONTINUEM EXTORQUINDO OS GOVERNOS E ASSASSINANDO OS NOSSOS ANIMAIS EM NOME DAS INFAMES “TRADIÇÕES” E FLAMIGERADAS “EXPERIENCIAS CIENTIFICAS” DISFARÇADAS E CRIMINOSAS:
Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
* 10:32 06 June 2002 by Andy Coghlan
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2362-extreme-mercury-levels-revealed-in-whalemeat.html
Tests on whalemeat on sale in Japan have revealed astonishing levels of mercury. While it has long been known that the animals accumulate heavy metals such as mercury in their tissues, the levels discovered have surprised even the experts.
Two of the 26 liver samples examined contained over 1970 micrograms of mercury per gram of liver. That is nearly 5000 times the Japanese government’s limit for mercury contamination, 0.4 micrograms per gram.
At these concentrations, a 60-kilogram adult eating just 0.15 grams of liver would exceed the weekly mercury intake considered safe by the World Health Organization, say Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi and Masakatsu Sakata at the University of Hokkaido, who carried out the research. "Acute intoxication could result from a single ingestion," they warn in a draft paper accepted for publication in The Science of the Total Environment.
The researchers call on the government to impose tighter regulations on the consumption of whale organs. In particular, they warn that pregnant women risk poisoning their unborn children. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children around Japan’s Minamata Bay were born with horrific birth defects after their mothers ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds, which had been poured raw into the bay since the 1930s. Thousands more suffered brain damage.
Single mouthful
Even veteran researchers from the Minamata saga were shocked by the new figures. "Hirokatsu Akagi, a director of the National Institute for Minamata Disease, was very surprised," says Endo. "He’d never seen levels above 20 micrograms per gram."
On average, concentrations of mercury in whale and dolphin livers were 370 micrograms per gram, 900 times the government limit. Average levels in kidneys and lungs were also high, about 100 times the limit. None of the samples was below the limit.
In work not yet published, Endo’s team has shown that rats suffered acute kidney poisoning after a single mouthful of the most highly contaminated liver. While levels were lower in muscle, Endo told New Scientist that on average it still contained 2.5 to 25 times the limit.
The samples came from small-toothed whales and dolphins, catches of which are not restricted by the International Whaling Commission, the international body that regulates whaling. Mercury becomes concentrated in their internal organs when they eat contaminated fish and squid.
Japan continues to campaign vigorously to be allowed to resume full-scale whaling of larger species. But an IWC meeting in May 2002 ended in deadlock.
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O PERIGO: A VERDADE OCULTA!
ResponderExcluirA Threat to Human Beings
and Polar Bears
“Marine Hunters: Whaling and Sealing in the North Atlantic,” published by the High North Alliance, 1997.
http://www.highnorth.no/Library/Publications/M-hunter/a-th-to.htm
A people’s diet, however, is not only about health. Dave Ramsden, Canadian North West Territories’ deputy minister of health, says that, «If we start a stampede away from eating beluga or caribou we will have lost the people’s culture.»50
TUDO ISSO É REPUGNANTE!
A BALEAÇÃO É UMA VERGONHA PARA O MUNDO E TODAS AS AUTORIDADES CONSTITUIDAS…
TODOS CORROMPIDOS E, CORRUPTOS IRREMEDIÁVEIS…
Canadian scientists investigating the PCB content of breast milk among the women of industrial southern Quebec needed samples of milk from an unadulterated environment for reference purposes. They took the necessary samples from Inuit women in Arctic Canada. They were shocked when the results came back from the laboratory. The Arctic mothers had five times as much PCB in their milk as the women further south.46
The survey was carried out in the mid-1980s and was one of the first alarming signs that organic pollutants able to pose a threat to both humans and animals, were found in the seemingly pristine Arctic landscape, far from any sources of industrial pollution. Since then, a considerable amount of research has been done to map the presence of organic pollutants in the Arctic. The problem has comprised a central issue in the work carried out by the eight Arctic nations that recently formed the Arctic Council. One of the most significant results of this work to date is an 800-page report entitled The AMAP Assessment Report: Arctic Pollution Issues, published in 1997.
The report describes the systematic transport of Persistent Organic Pollutants, such as PCB, from warmer to colder areas by way of air currents. In effect, the Earth’s atmosphere functions like a giant oil refinery, separating different compounds at different latitudes, in accordance with the temperatures at which they condense. Heavy metals like mercury and cadmium are also transported polewards, in part by the ocean currents. The situation is made worse by the fact that organic pollutants decompose far more slowly in die Arctic environment than they do further south.
Organic pollutants filter into the food chain where they are dramatically concentrated as they progress from link to link. In this way, they pose a greater threat to species eating marine mammals than to the marine mammals themselves.
Organic pollutants bind themselves to fatty tissues and it is therefore those cultures that consume considerable amounts of seal or whale blubber that are the most vulnerable. This applies to most Inuit communities, particularly the smaller villages that still maintain hunting traditions, and where imported food is very expensive. It also applies to the Faroe Islanders. In the Faroes, the blubber of pilot whales constitutes an important part of the traditional diet. 75% of women in northern Quebec and Labrador and 95% of women in Greenland have a higher PCB level in their blood than «the level of concern» of 5 parts per million defined by the Canadian health authorities.47 Organic pollutants are transferred to infant through their mother’s milk. Surveys carried out in the US show that PCB can be harmful to the development of the central nervous system.
In the animal kingdom, the polar bear is vulnerable to organic pollutants as its diet consists primarily of seal. Very high levels of PCB have been found in the polar bears of the Svalbard region.
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27 / 05 / 2008 EXCLUSIVO: Na desenvolvida Dinamarca, acontece anualmente espetáculo de barbárie contra baleias
ResponderExcluirMônica Pinto / AmbienteBrasil
Muitos ficaram legitimamente aborrecidos com a presunção de estrangeiros de que poderiam tomar conta da Amazônia melhor do que nós, os brasileiros. Vários países do chamado “primeiro mundo”, que já acabaram há tempos com suas florestas, agora posam de defensores do planeta e arrogam-se o direito de interferir em territórios que não são deles, mensagem expressa, por exemplo, pelo New York Times na reportagem “De quem é a Amazônia, afinal?” (clique aqui para ler notícia sobre o assunto).
Em que se pese o Brasil continuar se mostrando incapaz de controlar o desmatamento na região, o que muitos defendem é que não se deve confundir ajuda com ingerência.
O curioso é que, em alguns desses países que se colocam como avançados em todos os sentidos, perpetram-se crimes contra a natureza que, no caso deles, não podem sequer ser justificados pelos clamores da sobrevivência.
Agora mesmo, vem circulando pela internet um e-mail que mostra fotos de um banho de sangue, este derramado de baleias, nas Ilhas Feroe. Para quem nunca ouviu falar delas – e isso não seria incomum -, salva-nos a Wikipédia: “As ilhas Feroe ou “ilhas das Ovelhas” são um território autônomo da Dinamarca, parte da Europa, localizado no Atlântico Norte entre a Escócia e a Islândia. O arquipélago é formado por 18 ilhas maiores e outras menores desabitadas que acolhem, ao todo, 47 mil pessoas em uma área de 1.499 km². Na ilha maior - Streymoy - está localizada a capital, Tórshavn.”
Nesse local, como se vê, ligado à próspera e desenvolvida Dinamarca, é realizado um evento todos os anos que inclui encurralar centenas de baleias à beira d´água, para depois ter o prazer de exterminá-las a golpes de facas. Crianças costumam ser dispensadas das escolas nesse dia, para acompanhar o “divertimento”, que funciona como uma espécie de ritual de passagem dos rapazes à idade adulta (veja fotos no final da matéria).
Já circula uma petição na internet pedindo providências para acabar com tal barbárie. “Essa caça esportiva é uma prática que foi abandonada em todo o mundo há muitas décadas, e agora é considerada ilegal em muitos outros países europeus”, diz o texto da petição.
“Os habitantes das Ilhas Feroe não têm necessidade da carne de baleia para a subsistência, e muito da carne é deixada para apodrecer e é jogada fora. Ela não pode ser exportada, pois está poluída com metais pesados e outras toxinas e, assim, não atende os padrões de saúde da União Européia para alimento para consumo por humanos”, prossegue. (Para conferir o texto completo, em Inglês, clique aqui)
Em julho de 2000, a organização Sea Shepherd, que dedica-se à proteger as formas de vida marinhas, velejou até as Ilhas Feroe para intervir na matança anual de baleias pilotos. Conseguiu que o massacre fosse levado às primeiras páginas da mídia européia e, melhor que isso, passou a fazer pressão econômica sobre as companhias que ainda compravam alimentos do mar com origem nas Feroe, o que representa 90% da economia local, com predominância das compras feitas pelo gigante holandês Unilever.
“Acima de 20 mil pontos de venda a varejo europeus cancelaram os seus contratos de pesca a pedido da Sea Shepherd”, informa o portal da entidade.
A luta está, porém, longe de um final feliz. “Na Noruega isso acontece também; é um problema cultural”, disse a AmbienteBrasil Cristiano Pacheco, coordenador jurídico da Sea Shepherd no Brasil. “É um espetáculo de horrores, eles abrem o pescoço dos animais de fora a fora e os deixam agonizando na beira da praia, onde as pessoas ficam aplaudindo”, completa o advogado, para quem é “inacreditável” que aconteça algo assim no mundo em pleno Século XXI.
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