Reason #82 You Shouldn't Hunt Whales

Posted by: modiggitty | 12 Dec 05 | 2 comments | Permalink

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Norwegian scientists have found that orcas - aka killer whales - have become the most contaminated mammals in the Arctic. Because they are at the top of the food chain, these whales ingest all the chemicals that have already polluted the animals they eat. If these whales are "accidentally" killed, or hunted for "scientific research," their whalemeat may end up on supermarket shelves and ultimately the dinner table. This delicacy comes fortified with pesticides, flame retardants and PCBs. Yum!

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Comments:

Siddharth Mehrotra [Visitor] on December 12, 2005 at 14:33

It seems interesting to a thinker that even as the Whales are victims of fratricide at human guns, the humans who eat them should suffer poison. It is as though humanity's own sins punish the sinners. How appropriate. Word had best get around, though.

Kelly [Visitor] on February 14, 2006 at 13:25

Well that is Karma or what ever you believe in. If you have no respect for the earth you live with than it will just bite you in the you know what...

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