For the foreseeable future, the battle over whales will continue to play out with unregulated hunts, dangerous zodiac chases, and freezers full of
aging whale meat.
Not exact matches
After researchers take samples to determine the
whale's
age, stomach contents, the amount of heavy metals accumulated in tissue, and other data, the
meat is sold with proceeds subsidizing the
whaling expeditions.
Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their consumption of fruits and vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal
meat / blubber, and
whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the
age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397
I am a middle
aged Japanese and I had
whale meat once when I was about 8 years old as a sort of a «delicacy.»