{"id":418103,"date":"2010-03-11T19:00:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.reallynatural.com,2010:\/\/2.2526"},"modified":"2010-03-11T19:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T23:12:55","slug":"european-union-bans-overfished-bluefin-tuna-upsetting-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/418103","title":{"rendered":"European Union Bans Overfished Bluefin Tuna Upsetting Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"blue-fin-tuna.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reallynatural.com\/pictures\/blue-fin-tuna.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" height=\"307\" width=\"430\" \/><br \/>\nThe European Union (EU) has joined a worldwide ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna because the species has been over-fished.  Unfortunately for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0794603165?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=reallynatural-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0794603165\">sushi<\/a> lovers, especially in Japan, raw tuna may be hard to acquire and unethical to consume as a result.  The <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/mar\/11\/bluefish-tuna-ban-japan-protests\">Guardian<\/a><\/em> explains:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Raw tuna is a key ingredient in sushi and sashimi in Japan, the world&#8217;s main purchaser of bluefin. Although the ban would not prevent the fish from being caught, it would end the trade between European fishing fleets and Japan, where about 80% of captured bluefin ends up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is like telling the US to stop eating beef,&#8221; said Kimio Amano, a 36-year-old broker at the Tsukiji fish market in Tokyo who joined about 100 other dealers &#8211; many clad in work boots and shiny waterproof overalls &#8211; to chant slogans calling for better use of the ocean&#8217;s resources.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nAmano&#8217;s analogy is flawed, since cattle are part of agribusiness and not wild creatures.  I don&#8217;t support the cattle industry&#8217;s practices of inhumane treatment.&nbsp; I do understand Amano is trying to make a cultural not environmental analogy; however, I would think the Japanese would also want to protect this species important to their diet.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qTGZ2LcUK-R_PL-OOEUInbPimnE\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qTGZ2LcUK-R_PL-OOEUInbPimnE\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qTGZ2LcUK-R_PL-OOEUInbPimnE\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/qTGZ2LcUK-R_PL-OOEUInbPimnE\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Union (EU) has joined a worldwide ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna because the species has been over-fished. Unfortunately for sushi lovers, especially in Japan, raw tuna may be hard to acquire and unethical to consume as a result. The Guardian explains: Raw tuna is a key ingredient in sushi and sashimi in Japan, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":640,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}