Hi!

Since I'm an Englsh teacher, I'm always looking for any magazines and newspapers from North America or the U.K. They make great reading material for students.

Anyway, browsing through a magazine called the New Yorker which I picked up recently in hopes to use for class, I stumbled upon an amusing advertisement which I'm sure you'll all find equally entertaining (or perhaps disturbring).

Set on a vibrant yellow background, the heading reads: Concerned About Mercury?

Below is a picture of a can of "Genuine Whale Meat"

After that it says: You shouldn't be. Unless you eat this. (OK, so they're saying you don't need to be concerned about consuming mercury unless the seafood you're eating is whale meat).

And here's the actual advertisement's statement below.

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Environmental scares about trace amounts of mercury in fish rely on a study of island natives who eat huge amounts of whale meat. However, scientists who study heavy fish-eaters find no health risks from mercury. So, unless you're lunching on a Moby Dick sandwich, there's no reason to worry.

Fish is good for you. Baseless anxiety (or whale blubber) isn't.

FischScam.com

I haven't checked out the website yet, but I can only imagine how much of a farce it is. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, this coming from a capitalist corporatist magazine!