Sharks More Dangerous Than Thought: Fins Contain Mercury

Monty - the one and only

Each year about 100 million sharks are killed for their fins. Now the environmental group WildAid has had look at the results of independent tests on the delicacy that is distributed and eaten in all countries around the world.

They found that mercury levels in the fins are up to 42 times higher than they should be. Consumption of the fins can be very dangerous for pregnant women because mercury blocks the baby's nerve cell formation.

There has been a large number of yet unknown substances in shark fins which are pumped in the meat to make it bigger. This indicates, that there are not enough big sharks in the sea any more. WildAid therefore demands a global shark fishing ban.

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Insanity is spreading like wildfire.......and Im at its center

www.scifi-meshes.com

_CreeD_

The japanese will eat anything they believe makes them better in bed.
One extremely bizarre culture.

Miguel_Sanchez

I heard eating Japanese people makes you better in bed.

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I'm the Dude

yellum

But Shark Fins are sooo nice. Shark Fin soup is tasty. Yum.

Kolodny

If sharks eat Japanese shark eating people and then get eaten by Japanese shark eating people does the mercury content keep increasing?

Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Jeff_Lebowski:
I heard eating Japanese people makes you better in bed.</font>

Indeed, eating a Japanese person, or a person of any nationality for that matter, while in bed with them will generally improve your standing as a luver with them.

Lucy_la_morte

Eep, eating animals is getting more dangerous by the minute.. Hopefully more people will consider vegetarianism (Did I just make that word up?) out of it, go on.. You know you want to

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It's just a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Lucy la morte.

[This message has been edited by Lucy_la_morte (edited 10-07-2001).]

Kali

Ahh thats ok.. as long as they dont start feeding mercury to agricultural animals here then im okay.. I mean I've just got used to the taste of the rest of the chemicals at this stage.

DrunkLeprachaun

NO! Don't listen to Lucy. Being vegitarian is hell. I never got the choice. You see people eating big slabs of meat, and saying stuff like Mmmmm, meat, but there's you having a choice of two things off the menu. Vegitarianism Bad.

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If there's one thing I hate, it's people.

Karl Hungus

I ate shark stake before... Extremely tasty...

Kali

Kangaroo and Crocodile are the strangest I've had

And someone move this to Food/Drink where it belongs.

fisty

vegatarians are crap in bed

Lucy_la_morte

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by fisty:
vegatarians are crap in bed</font>

Insomnia is linked with Vegetarianism now?

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It's just a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it.

Lucy la morte.

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

Crap in bed fisty? You'd have to ask my fiancee- and partner for more than 3 years- we're both vegetarian. I don't make that much(yet) and she didn't say "yes" for my looks...so it must be something...besides- with a nick like Fisty-McFist- how could one be taken seriously in bed if your other half knew the nick? I mean, think of the children...

Bob the Unlucky Octopus

Kix

No, vegetarians make great lovers and are particularly good at foreplay.

It's the only taste of meat we get!

_CreeD_

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kix:
No, vegetarians make great lovers and are particularly good at foreplay.
It's the only taste of meat we get!
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Just got to be afraid of reflex-biting.

Anyway, how else can you ask a girl if she would like a 12" vegetarian
(....Pizza of course.....honest...)

Kix

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by _CreeD_:
Anyway, how else can you ask a girl if she would like a 12" vegetarian...</font>

*grin*

The now sadly* defunct Strawberry Fields diner in Galway used only have one vegetarian option on the menu. Every time we ordered the "Hot Vegetarian" we expected some babe to run out of the kitchen and vault the counter.

* "Sadly" only because it was one of the first of the little cafes/diners which now exemplify the character of Galway and most Galwegians probably look back at it with some nostalgia. It was a bit of a greasy spoon really...