What are the health dangers to humans who eat cetacean meat?
Dolphins and whales eat at the top of the food chain. Because animals bioaccumulate toxins, meaning that they absorb the immortal toxins of all the animals consumed below them, they store toxins like PCB’s, mercury, lead and cadmium in their fat. It’s impossible for a dolphin to eat anything else other than fish. A human has the same problem if they eat only fish. I did. Through the making of this movie, interviewing doctors in Minamata studying the problem, I found out I had mercury poisoning. I was a pescatarian, I ate primarily fish for protein. I found out I had about forty parts per million (ppm) of mercury in my blood. You should not have more than 1 ppm. I was a mid-level Minamata victim. I had to stop eating fish altogether to get my levels down. What people don’t realize is that it’s not just dolphins and whales that are toxic, it’s everything we like to eat, tuna, swordfish, marlin, shark and tilefish. Because of the dumping of pollution into the environment, especially from
