PrintDolphin: Friend or Food?
"The sounds of waves crashing onto a rocky shore mingle in Taiji with the screeching wails of dolphins being chopped and hacked to death by fishermen." Residents of Taiji, Japan have been eating dolphin for over a century, but social pressures and high levels of mercury challenge their culture of dolphin-eating.
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4 Comments:
I'm sure this is horrible but it's made me wonder what dolphin tastes like. . .
unarata at 3:08PM on 02/11/08
Nah, I wonder too. That and the taste of every other "forbidden food"...
roboppy at 4:05PM on 02/11/08
Weird. I eat a lot of things, but dolphin will never be one of them. I don't eat anything smarter than me...
HunterAnglerGardenerCook at 4:47PM on 02/11/08
I'll try anything at least once. Maybe I would draw the line at live cockroaches, at least the 3"+ flying ones in Hawaii.
Dolphins, like any other animal, is another depletable resource. These people make a living out of it, so there's a demand somewhere; otherwise, they wouldn't be out there risking their lives. I wonder if there's a way to farm-raise these like salmon, cows, etc. to relieve the wild population...?
Cassaendra at 6:34PM on 02/11/08