An amazing film with some cool special ops about bringing greed and lies to the light of day.
Watch the trailer on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo
The shocking part is that they relabel the dolphin meat as whale meat so they can sell it. And they even try to feed it to school children… even though dolphin is much higher in mercury than whale. Mercury has the most devastating effects on fetuses, infants and children. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_poisoning)
In Japan, mercury poisoning is called Minamata disease (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease).
Minamata disease was first discovered in Minamata city in Kumamoto prefecture, Japan in 1956. It was caused by the release of methyl mercury in the industrial wastewater from the Chisso Corporation’s chemical factory, which continued from 1932 to 1968. This highly toxic chemical bioaccumulated in shellfish and fish in Minamata Bay and the Shiranui Sea, which when eaten by the local populace resulted in mercury poisoning. While cat, dog, pig and human deaths continued over more than 30 years, the government and company did little to prevent the pollution.
Seems like the Japanese government would not want a recurrence.
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