Sentences with phrase «whale meat even»
The Japanese Government encourages the public to eat whale meat even though it is increasingly unpopular because it has to «save face» as it does not want to give up its right to hunt whales which would be seen as conceding defeat.
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Finally, in 2009, the body of a beaked whale was found in the Seychelles, in the western part of the Indian Ocean; its DNA also matched that of the dried meat sample, even though this whale lived tens of thousands of kilometers away from the Gilbert Islands.
Even so, the mercury content of whale meat is considerably lower than that of the hypertoxic Minamata fish.
Other fats such as lard, tallow, sesame oil, perilla oil, whale oil, meat and egg yolk (all used in the traditional Japanese diet), and even from milk products (used in fairly large quantities today) will raise fat calories to something like 20 - 30 percent of the total.
So not only is whale meat NOT a staple food in Japan, it is not even a ancient ritual.
DNA, the barcode of every species, is being used to track shipments of tropical hardwood and even detected illegal whale meat being served in a Los Angeles sushi restaurant.
They even make luxury dog food from whale meat...
The problem has even been found with whale meat being sold to customers in an LA sushi restaurant.
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.