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> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>
> >Yes, but we are talking about Japan. People who bitch about the US or WTO
> are
> >probably posting elsewhere.
>
> Well either you consider it's Japan's problem, in that case, you have to
> admit that's absolutely not the business of Canadian (?) dolphinophiles
> (Should they not worry about the ESB and slaughter of lobsters ?)

Even if it were only Japan's problem, why shouldn't other people get involved?

> ....OR that's a problem that should be discussed globally.

It is discussed internationally. There are also international agreements, which
is the problem when Japan and whaling are concerned.

> Unfortunately, I see it's still decided -or not decided-country by country
> while the issues are global (not only fish move but that becomes hard to
> trace the origine of your food and nothing proves that Japanese contaminated
> dolphin is not actually eaten in Mexico or London, etc).

Do they eat dolphin?

> > > A question of adaptation. The other day on TV, they showed a woman that
> > > would have been eating earth for the last 5 years. 5 kg per day. She
> seemed
> > > healthy and said she had even taken weight...Then a Japanese doctor
> > > explained she had the intestinal flora like that of a mimizu and now she
> can
> > > get nutriments directly from earth...I've rarely laught so much thanks
> to
> > > Japanese TV.
> >
> > But do you believe it?
>
> Certainly not !

Then we're back to the issue of needing to kill plants for food, no matter how
we feel about them.