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Sharks More Dangerous Than Thought: Fins Contain Mercury

  • 04-07-2001 10:43PM
    #1
    Monty - the one and only
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,274 ✭✭✭


    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.

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

    www.scifi-meshes.com


Comments

  • #2
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,240 ✭✭✭_CreeD_


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


  • #3
    Miguel_Sanchez
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,417 ✭✭✭Miguel_Sanchez


    I heard eating Japanese people makes you better in bed.
    I'm the Dude


  • #4
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


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



  • #5
    Kolodny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,634 ✭✭✭Kolodny


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


  • #6
    Kix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭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. biggrin.gif


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  • #7
    Lucy_la_morte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭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 wink.gif
    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).]


  • #8
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭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.


  • #9
    DrunkLeprachaun
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭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.
    If there's one thing I hate, it's people.


  • #10
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


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



  • #11
    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    Kangaroo and Crocodile are the strangest I've had smile.gif

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


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  • #12
    fisty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,141 ✭✭✭fisty


    vegatarians are crap in bed


  • #13
    Lucy_la_morte
    Closed Accounts Posts: 938 ✭✭✭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?

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

    Lucy la morte.


  • #14
    Bob the Unlucky Octopus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭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


  • #15
    Kix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭Kix


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

    It's the only taste of meat we get! tongue.gif



  • #16
    _CreeD_
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,240 ✭✭✭_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! tongue.gif
    </font>

    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...)


  • #17
    Kix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,193 ✭✭✭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. smile.gif

    * "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...


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