OH THOSE CRAZY JAPANESE

Mitsugora Bando VIII, a famous Japanese Kabuki actor and “Living National Treasure,” died in 1975 from eating fish.

Mitsugora Bando VIII had a weakness for chiri — a gourmet dish made of toxic blowfish fillets stewed with blowfish livers, skin, and intestines. After consuming his fourth bowl of the delicacy, which imparts a definite “high,” at a Kyoto restaurant, the famed Kabuki actor abruptly died. Every year, the Japanese consume 20,000 tons of blowfish, paying as much as $500 at special restaurants—despite knowing that 70-100 people die each year from eating it.

...And yet, these are the same people who banned U.S.beef because they were worried about 'mad cow' disease!! So what is that all about; eating the beef isn't dangerous enough for them?