beached whale move

[G-spotter]

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/09/09/bc-whale.html

[gertlush]

machine gun = aid?

[G-spotter]

The last whale they shot had to be trucked to a special landfill because the meat had so high a concentration of PCBs etc. that it qualified as toxic waste.

 

"That shit's whaleburger, Paul. It's pussy on a Triscuit!"

[Winter]

And don't forget the great exploding whale of 1970.

 

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[catbirdseat]

Gray Whales feed at the bottom of the food chain and as a result have blubber that is much lower in PCBs than the killer whales.

 

It's a shame that this whale was allowed to sink in 400 ft of water. Now it's shark food.

[G-spotter]

Gray Whales feed at the bottom of the food chain and as a result have blubber that is much lower in PCBs than the killer whales.

 

It's a shame that this whale was allowed to sink in 400 ft of water. Now it's shark food.

 

Yeah, they should have towed it to shore, eaten some of it, gotten cancer and died, and the survivors could have blown up and landfilled the rest.

[cj001f]

The Makah should start hunting down in Greys Harbour - there were some corpulent people walking around Westport on Saturday.

[catbirdseat]

They ate meat from the whale they took in 1999. I don't think PCB levels are so high in gray whales that a feast once every five years or so is going to hurt anyone.

[G-spotter]

Norway's Whale Meat Toxic, Too

 

WWF reports that whale meat and blubber sampled in Norway recently were found to contain heavy metals, PCBs and pesticides.

 

The toxic whale meat crisis now faces Norwegian consumers as well as Japanese. Will the Norwegian government, like Japan, shirk its responsibility to protect its citizens? Will Norway put the financial health of a handful of whalers (who already make a fine living fishing most of the year) ahead of people who are consuming contaminants that cause cancer, sterility and other woes?

 

Twenty samples of whale meat and blubber collected in Norwegian markets in recent weeks were analyzed by scientists hired by WWF. Preliminary results show that more than 50 PCB congeners were identified, some of which are dioxin-like PCB's. Also, 25 metals were identified in whale blubber samples, including organic mercury. In addition, several organochlorine pesticides were detected, including aldrin, dieldrin, heptachlor, and DDE and DDD (which are breakdown products of DDT).

 

Norway should not be surprised that its minke whales are contaminated. The marine mammals are subjected each summer to the chemical and radioactive soup pouring into the Barents Sea from Russia's polluted rivers and military bases. Similar toxic exposure is faced by the whales when they winter in the North Sea and Irish Sea.

 

Ironically, the children, men and women of Norway may be saved from this tainted food by Gro Brundtland, the pro-whaling former Norwegian prime minister who now heads the World Health Organization. WHO is aggressively attacking tainted food.

 

Conservation groups will continue to closely monitor the chemical pollutants threatening cetaceans—and the humans who consume them.

 

 

They only ate a little bit of the whale they caught in 99, and had to dispose of the rest as toxic waste.