Brazil is the world’s largest consumer and importer of shark meat. But it’s not just restaurants and grocery stores — a Mongabay investigation found that the country’s government agencies have purchased thousands of tons of shark meat to serve in schools, hospitals, prisons, military bases, homeless shelters and other public institutions. The findings raise serious environmental and public health concerns because sharks are widely overfished and their meat tends to be high in heavy metals like mercury and arsenic.This article was originally published on Mongabay

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