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  scaramoucheiiSep. 23, 2009 - 11:06AM JST

  Ryono actually went on the record in US media in 2007

  http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1668448,00.html

  It's only because the film is now going to screen in Japan that he is backpeddeling.

  Posted in: Tokyo film festival decides at last minute to include 'The Cove'

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  scaramoucheiiSep. 23, 2009 - 08:56AM JST

  Of all the Japanese persons interviewed in the film "The Cove" I have only read of one that wants to be removed from the film, and that was only after the announcement that the film will play in Japan.

  I'm sure that he fears he will suffer for speaking the truth 'in Japan'.

  Ryono stated "for the record" that mercury tainted dolphin meat was about to be served as school lunches to the students in Taiji, and that the mayor of Taiji was trying to promote this program across Japan. Now he want's to retract that statement ?? There must be a powerful PRO mercury poisoning lobby pressuring him.

  A couple of points for discussion.

  1; How can you regard poison meat as food ??

  2; Is going out into a national park and harvesting the top level predator, upsetting the food chain, responsible ?

  3; Wild animals caught for captivity must be caught in a non selective and humane manner or else WAZA members are not allowed to display them. The dolphins from Taiji are not!

  Posted in: Tokyo film festival decides at last minute to include 'The Cove'

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