"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message

> > 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?

Yes. Not intentionnally.
That was proven several times that tuna cans sold all over the world
contained dolphin. Do they sell it as "iruka" or "maguro" in your local
shotengai ? In Osaka, whale is sold as kujira (I see some nearly year
round), but dolphin is sold it as maguro.

And well, so many dishes ready-to-eat contain dozens of ingredients, so if
you buy jar of seafood pasta sauce, hard to know where the ingredients come
from. Most times, it's written seafood extracts and meat, no detail, no
origine of ingredients.
I worked for a wholesaler of meat, he'd buy from and sell to over 60
different countries, certain meats were animals born in country A, raised in
country B, slaughtered in country C, cut in country D, then sold in country
E to a local wholesale butchery, and so on...

People that are allergic or need to identify their food for
ideologic/religious reasons can't buy half of the products of an average
supermarket, as it's impossible to be 'sure' of the content.(supposing the
labels don't lie...which is not even guaranted)
I know many persons, that for themselves or their job in food industry,
tried to contact food makers to obtain detailed lists of ingredients and
country of origine for each, they rarely received a complete answer. Danone
could not tell the country of origine of the milk in their yogourts sold in
France (composition : 99% milk, 1% milk bacteries) to a cook I know, they
told him they had no idea themselves as they or their providers mix
different milks they buy all over. But they say "Don't worry it's safe, we
take only first quality ingredients  !". How could they know ?

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

Never seen that as an issue for myself. Idem for eating meat. I don't
believe in ideological
vegetarism/veganism, those people walk on ants like anybody else. But , they
disturb me in nothing, as long as don't tell me to do like them.

CC