I always wondered why so many foreigners are so much against whaling. Isn´t it double standards to commit extremly cruelity against animals in your country but to blame us for whaling? Whale meat had never great value in Japan. We started whaling after WW II to use it as protein scource. We hunt not much whales, just as much as our scientists consider no big deal for the population. Infact our whaling holds the population of the Mink Whales stable. Its a fact that their numbers exploded. The reason for that was, that european and americans destroyed the great whale populations like blue whales and so on, so Mink Whales had no competition left.
whale meat itself is not very popular in Japan. I personal do not like it. But i see the importance of it. Japan is an island empire. Our landscape is rough with much mountains. That makes it difficult to grow enough cows as meat scource for our population. We import much meat from Argentina, USA and europe. But we also want hold our whaling fleet. You never know when times change...
Beside that i don´t see why many react so crazy about it? Isn´t sturgeon slaughtered in masses as well for the western hunger for caviar?
whale meat itself is not very popular in Japan. I personal do not like it. But i see the importance of it. Japan is an island empire. Our landscape is rough with much mountains. That makes it difficult to grow enough cows as meat scource for our population. We import much meat from Argentina, USA and europe. But we also want hold our whaling fleet. You never know when times change...
Beside that i don´t see why many react so crazy about it? Isn´t sturgeon slaughtered in masses as well for the western hunger for caviar?