Fish imports & eating ayu's entrails

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'I begin eating ayu's entrails
By opening my mouth small'

Fish imports changing our sense of taste
The Asahi Shimbun, May 19 (IHT/Asahi: May 20, 2003)
...But the question is: Does our sense of taste remain healthy and uncorrupted?
This is an age in which the practice of opening imported fish... I fear that the cookery and the refined sense of taste that have underpinned Japan's fish-eating culture are not passing down to the next generation.
If so, members of the next generation will be unable to appreciate the delicate taste of ayu's intestines, a pleasure expressed in Tenko Kawasaki's haiku poem: 'I begin eating ayu's entrails / By opening my mouth small'

AYU VS Ayu

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'I begin eating ayu's entrails
By opening my mouth small'

Packaged Whale Meat in Japan Contains High Levels of Mercury
Scientific American - May 20
...The researchers found that mercury levels in all 137 meat samples exceeded the guidelines of 0.4 part per million set by the Japanese government. In fact, samples of false killer whale and striped dolphin surpassed the regulations by 200 and 160 times, respectively. ...
...These particular meat samples were from packaged food products that someone would have eaten, if they had not been purchased for pollutant analysis," notes Frank Cipriano of San Francisco State University. "This is a clear signal that Japan has a major health problem that the government has not addressed."

[Jack]

I could eat Ayu any day, Hamasaki Ayumi, that is.

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