Eat the Whales! No wait. EAT THE SEALS!
Over on my main hangout, the FG Forum, they have been running this typically Japanese type of eat-the-whales type of story and I just had to comment from my experience eating both whale and seal.
News.com: Seals now in Japan’s gun sights
Director-general of Japan’s Institute of Cetacean Research, Hiroshi Hatanaka, said Japan would consider killing Antarctic crab eater seals for scientific research. Dr Hatanaka has reportedly said crab eater seals are a part of the eco-system model for the Japanese science program. At present, no Antarctic seals are being culled for research…”Nothing has been decided at the moment, and we do not know if…vessels have the capacity to take samples,”
Besides the whale I have to eat at Japanese weddings (hint: stay away from the “whale bacon” which is dioxin-laden blubber), I ate some Hokkaido seal curry a while back. YUM! Anything tastes good as curry.
Photo via bornplaydie.com.
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