According to the Environmental Investigaton Agency, more than half of the meat sold in Japan as “whale meat” is actually either dolphin, porpoise, or small whale meat. In addition to endangering species like the striped dolphin. What makes this even more astounding is that dolphin meat has toxic amounts of mercury. “The concentration of mercury in one sample of dolphin liver alone was more than 500 times greater than limits allowed under Japan’s Food Sanitation Law,” the article says.