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JAPAN FACES WHALE MEAT GLUT
Japan is preparing to expand its whale hunt, but already their harpoons kill more whales than Japan’s population is prepared to eat. Prices for whale meat are plunging, and most young Japanese are not interested in eating the “tough pungent” meat and feel the continuing whale industry is creating a bad image for Japan in the eyes of the world.
In an effort to reduce the whale meat glut, some local governments have begun offering whale meat in school lunches. Funding nutritionists to develop “child-friendly” whale dishes including whale meatballs, hamburgers and whale spaghetti bolognese.
"The fall in prices is a good thing because it will make whale meat more accessible," Yoshiaki Kochi said.
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The above photograph shows canned whale meat for sale in a supermarket. We are told the whale hunt is for scientific reasons but it is common knowledge that the hunt is for profit - despite the fact that many Japanese people detest the taste of whale meat and are unaware that government taxes are used to fund the yearly hunt and hording of the growing stockpile of this unpopular flesh food.
The Japanese whaling ships only begun their barbaric work since WWII, so the excuse the whale hunt is important due to cultural reasons is another excuse that “holds no water”. |
