Japanese Grocer Says NO To Dolphin Meat!

GREAT NEWS FOR DOLPHINS FROM JAPAN

The Okuwa Supermarket has announced that a ban on selling dolphin meat is now PERMANENT!

In December, 2006, a package of striped dolphin meat was sent to an independent lab in Tokyo for mercury testing.

As a result of these tests, on December 26, 2006, the Okuwa Supermarket Corporation decided to ban the sale of all dolphin meat in their stores. They said they would need to conduct testing of their own to determine whether or not the ban was going to be permanent or temporary.

The supermarket chain and conglomerate, which is comprised of drug stores, movie theatres, home store centers, sports clubs, hotels and amusement facilities, reported in an e-mail message:

"We have decided, as a matter of company policy, that we will discontinue permanently the sale of dolphin meat regardless of test results currently being conducted by the company at an independent lab." The supermarket added: "Those test results will be concluded next week, but the results will not be revealed."

The SaveJapanDolphins coalition considers this recent development to be major progress in its efforts to stop the sale and export of Japanese dolphin meat. Follow-up work will now focus on getting other stores in Japan to follow the lead of the Okuwa Supermarket chain and ban dolphin meat from their shelves.