Those Japanese are just not going to give two hoots about world opinion. They love to munch on our cetacean brothers and sisters, and their claims to an historical use of sea based resources to feed their people holds water. We eat cows and feed Skippy to rover, I see very little difference.
Whales really took a bashing when they were used as a fuel and lubricant resource. This atrocious slaughter exists no longer, so the food aspect of the animal has to be considered as legitimate for those that have used it as a staple part of their diet. Would you stop the Inuit from eating whale and seal? I don’t think so!!! A chain of Mc Orca restaurants would be over the odds though.
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to the best of my knowledge the Japs have some history of bashing dolphins to death, but whalemeat only entered their diet towards the end of WW2 when they were justifiably starving, Burma railway anyone?
They will stripmine the sea as they do the rainforests of SE Asia, they don't fucken care
The Japanese have had a very close cultural connection to the whale and it's various uses for 5,000 years, back to the Jomon period. They were able to use every part of the whale for some purpose or other.
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