95% of Japanese rarely or never eat whale.
for good reason; i tried it in japan, its pretty gamey and tough.
Japanese eat between 4000 and 5000 tons annually, only one ounce per person per YEAR on average, and the country throws away 3500 to 4000 tons per year, about 40%.of all harvested whale meat
They sell it at my supermarket in northern Japan. I’ve had it at a restaurant I think twice and it was ok; nothing to write home about but I didn’t find it gamey or anything.
It’s so funny to me when people are like ‘oh yeah I participated in and helped fund this disgusting thing, it’s wasn’t that great so I did it again…’
Most people seem to have no personal morality or shame, it’s so weird.
I never specifically ordered whale. In Japan, there are places you go and get whatever set menu is being served that day. I did, it contained whale, and either I ate it or it went in the trash. As such, I ate it.
“nothing to write home about” is very accurate for how I felt after eating whale meat, too.
Why buy it and directly support such a devastating industry?
First, as I stated in another reply, I’ve never directly/intentionally purchased it. The times I ate it, it was as a part of some set meal that I got. I ate it rather than let it just be thrown away.
Second, as long as they’re not hunting threatened/endangered species, I don’t know that there is an argument to be made by someone who already eats animal products.
My japanese partner says most people have tried it once or twice but don’t eat it regularly
I think it was often in school lunches through the early post-war period but was replaced by other things so some boomer era folks are it a lot growing up.
I remember on QI, Jeremy Clarkson said he ordered whale in a restaurant in Iceland and they asked him if he wanted grated puffin on it.
What the fuck is up with the Japanese and whaling? Do they eat that much whale meat? Or what?
It’s often (but not always) available at supermarkets, but it’s not commonly eaten. Hopefully the tradition will die off with the older generations.
It’s not the most popular but it is eaten. My local supermarket sells it.
anyone up for some actual high seas piracy?
Sea Shepard time?
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi, whose electoral district is traditionally known for whaling, said Thursday the government supports sustainable use of whales as part of Japan’s traditional food culture and plans to promote the industry.
“Whales are an important food resource and we believe they should be sustainably utilized just like any other marine resources, based on scientific evidence,” Hayashi told reporters. “It is also important to carry on Japan’s traditional food culture.”
I think Cabinet Secretaries are an important food resource that should be sustainably utilized.
Isn’t whale really unpopular cheap trash meat in Japan?
They added whale meat to vending machines last year to boost consumption. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/24/asia/japan-whale-meat-vending-machine-intl-hnk/index.html
With some things the Japanese just have the worst fucking ideas. How have they still not understood that overfishing is a problem?
Great idea Japan. Artificially trying to fuel consumption of a product you KNOW is controversial and unpopular instead of just… stopping
Those savages
Anyway, who’s up for eating a bucket with the wings of 30 chickens that were killed in the same box they were born in
I’m up for it but only if it’s a threatened species of wild chicken
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I don’t eat meat, but I really don’t understand how people like you expect to insult people into not eating meat.
Have you ever been insulted into doing something other people want you to do? I sure haven’t.
You can eat meat, just don’t be a hypocrite about it and pretend you’re better than other people eating meat because your meat lives in pain neck deep in their own shit before you kill it
Cool, so anyone who eats meat should be totally ok with eating whales. Thanks for clarifying that, we’ll stop trying to get people to stop eating whales now thanks to your advice.
The options are either that or not eating meat while continuing to try to stop people from eating whales. I support you in whichever you pick.
I really do not understand your “people can be as cruel to animals as they want as long as they aren’t hypocrites” position.
This is called a “false choice,” or “false dilemma”
Sounds like you don’t care about animal cruelty either, in that case. As long as you aren’t participating in it.
Seems to me like trying to convince other people not to do it rather than insulting them might be a better use of your time.
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Plenty of others have put a lot of effort into convincing people to stop eating meat with a decent amount of success. Do you have some sort of condition preventing you from doing the same? I doubt it.
Again, it seems to me like you have no issues with animal cruelty, just hypocrisy.
The whale in the picture is at the natural history museum in Ueno. It’s a really nice place to visit if you’re ever in Tokyo and you can see taxidermied Hachiko ( ⚈̥̥̥̥̥́⌢⚈̥̥̥̥̥̀)
The Japanese have clearly ignored the threat of an alien probe showing up 200 years from now and sucking away the oceans looking for the missing whales.
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