Sentences with phrase «on whale meat»

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South Korea belongs to the IWC, and last year joined the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), which bans trade in whale meat.

The 1946 International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling allows taking whales for research purposes and allows the meat to be sold on the market; Japan uses the proceeds to defray research expenses.

Now, after running DNA tests on a gift of dried whale meat given to a scientist visiting islands in the Pacific, researchers have confirmed that there's a whole new species of beaked whale living in our oceans — and there may be others out there.

On this forum they talk about Inuit people in the past subsisting off of cooked and raw meats, organs, and a ton of fats (think whale blubber) and not much else (no gardens in the extreme North!)

Some Inuit have survived long periods entirely on meat, attaining vitamin C in muktuk, the skin and blubber of whales.

In one of the greatest adventure stories of all time, Ernest Shackleton and his crew survived for almost a year and a half on Antarctica, eating seal, penguin and whale meat as sustenance until a small group embarked for South Georgia island for rescue.

They are violating an international ban on whaling, illegally slaughtering these intelligent, sensitive, endangered mammals for MEAT not for «science».

Their bloody faces smile as they chew on rancid whale meat.

Today's Week in Review has an article on whaling in Japan that ends with, «Asking Japan to abandon this part of its culture,» the (Japan Whaling) association says, «would compare to Australians being asked to stop eating meat pies, Americans being asked to stop eating hamburgers and the English being asked to go without fish and chip.whaling in Japan that ends with, «Asking Japan to abandon this part of its culture,» the (Japan Whaling) association says, «would compare to Australians being asked to stop eating meat pies, Americans being asked to stop eating hamburgers and the English being asked to go without fish and chip.Whaling) association says, «would compare to Australians being asked to stop eating meat pies, Americans being asked to stop eating hamburgers and the English being asked to go without fish and chip.»

Louis Psihoyos, the former National Geographic photographer who won an Oscar on Sunday for «The Cove,» his first documentary film, sat down for a conversation with me at the Asia Society on Tuesday on various aspects of the ongoing slaughter of dolphins in Japan and his team's work exposing the serving of Sei whale meat at The Hump, a sushi restaurant in Santa Monica, Calif..

Double confession: I once ate dolphin meat in a restaurant in Taiwan; again, just once, and I wanted to now what it tasted like, cooked with ginger and spices and of course it was not legally on the menu, although the whale meat in Tokyo was on the menu and payble in yen).

It puts science on hold, the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary on ice, and no restrictions whatsoever on the international trade in whale Whale Sanctuary on ice, and no restrictions whatsoever on the international trade in whale whale meat.

The Northern Sea Route along that coast has always been a busy passageway for coastal shipping — and is slowly becoming more of a global route for products moving between Europe and Asia (including Icelandic whale meat; more on that later today).

Everybody has to start, eat less fish, don't eat whale meat, don't allow our government to keep high fishing quotas, make sure our government (the US does have an election coming up...) takes a strong stand on the issue of whaling.

There is currently a global moratorium on commercial whaling, and a ban on international trade in fin whale meat.

One definition of chutzpah: The day after a team of activist filmmakers garner an Academy Award for «The Cove,» the documentary showing in wrenching detail the slaughter of hundreds of dolphins in a Japanese town, they disclose a sting operation they conducted with law enforcement officials at one of the hottest sushi bars in Santa Monica, Calif. — in which they say they confirmed that Sei whale meat was on the menu.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke issued the following statement on Iceland's decision to resume international trade in fin whale meat, and its escalation of commercial whaling outside of the control of the International Whaling Commissionwhaling outside of the control of the International Whaling CommissionWhaling Commission (IWC).

The latest catch confirms that Japan is focusing increasingly on the larger sei whales in the North Pacific, which render more meat to be sold.

On January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITESOn January 31, 2014, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell certified under section 8 of the Fisherman's Protective Act of 1967 (the «Pelly Amendment»)(22 U.S.C. 1978), that nationals of Iceland are conducting trade in whale meat and products that diminishes the effectiveness of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITESon International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

The report shows how in March, Yahoo! Japan was found offering 249 whale products, including sashimi, bacon and canned whale meat, for sale on its fee - based sales and auction sites.

EIA has joined with partner conservation organizations to call on SPAR International to stop all sales and distribution of whale meat.

The move came after the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), in conjunction with Humane Society International (HSI), launched the report Blood e-Commerce on March 18 exposing Rakuten as the world's biggest online marketplace for elephant ivory and whale meat products, and the day after UN International Court of Justice ruled against Japan's fraudulent «scientific» whaling in the Antarctic.

Directed by Louie Psihoyos, the film is a tense action - film - like documentary on the brutal killing of dolphins in Taiji, Japan, one of many areas of the country where dolphins and whales are killed for their meat, though some of the traumatized animals are hand - chosen to be hauled off to theme parks and swim - with - the - dolphin programs across the globe.

The film made an incredible impression on global audiences and uncovered hidden secrets about dolphin and whale meat in Japanese fish markets.

Now on what essentially is a whale - hunting «break,» Iceland says that it will not issue whale - hunting quotas until market demand increases or it manages to get its tenterhooks on a license to export whale products to Japan, one of the largest markets for whale meat (aka The Jackpot).

I recall the label on those packages of whale meat: research whaling.

Yet Guofinnsson says the slack demand for whale meat and products means it makes no sense to issue new quotas when the present quota period expires on 31 August.

The sei whale is on the brink of extinction, and the LA restaurant caught serving the black market meat has been forced to close.

Ever since 1986, the international trade of whale meat has been banned between countries that signed that year's document produced by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES (CITES was in the news a bunch earlier this year too, but for failing to protect the trade of just about every endangered species imaginable — at least they banned ivory).

Humane Society International continues to pressure Japan to cease whaling through our efforts at the annual IWC meeting as well as via corporate campaigns, like the recently co-sponsored effort to end the sale of whale meat on Amazon.com's Japanese website.

Meanwhile, even as alternatives to whale oil were developed, so too were powerful new tools for whaling: the exploding harpoon gun that could be used to kill the blue whale and other large, fast - swimming whales, and the factory ships that could render whales into oil and meat on an industrial scale.

The issue that many opponents have is that the whale meat ends up being sold for public consumption on the streets of Japan.

He says it is illegal for whale meat to be transported through Chilean territorial waters and the Sea Shepherd has been in touch with the Chilean Navy to keep them updated on the position of the Japanese factory ship.