Sentences with phrase «whale meat sold»

Activists have said in the past that some whale meat sold in Japanese supermarkets may be contaminated with hazardous levels of mercury, cancer - causing PCBs or heavy metals.

A U.S. study of whale meat sold in South Korea suggests the number of whales being sold for human consumption is putting minke whales further at risk.

In 2010, similar tests found that half of 10 samples of whale meat sold via Yahoo! Japan exceeded the safe levels for mercury contamination.

You might laugh at this proposal, but I recall a DNA fingerprinting study of samples of whale meat sold for sashimi in Asian fish markets — a few samples were actually horse meat!

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Japan has failed to sell three - quarters of its 2011 whale - meat harvest, a loss of appetite for cetacean blubber that may spell the end of the hunt in the world's largest whaling nation.

(The whale meat is sold to partially recoup the cost of the expeditions.)

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.

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.

Japan contends that whales are depleting fish stocks and has been killing ever larger numbers of whales for what it says is research, but what critics say is a thinly veiled slaughter for meat sold to a small percentage of the Japanese public.

After Japan kills the humpback whales for «scientific research,» it plans to sell the whale meat to restaurants.

The whale meat is sold for food.

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.

FamilyMart sells canned whale meat in 25 % of stores surveyed, and is potentially a major distributor and seller of canned whale meat.

Investigations in the summer of 2015 revealed that a variety of whale meat products are sold in these stores.

Meanwhile, both Japan and Iceland continue to kill whales under the guise of scientific research, but sell the meat commercially.

Whale - watching profits far exceed those from selling whale parts and Whale - watching profits far exceed those from selling whale parts and whale parts and meat.

Fishermen are not now allowed to sell gray whale meat, and are asked to report entanglements so that authorities can release the whales.

A team of scientists, film - makers and environmental advocates say they collected samples of whale meat being sold in sushi restaurants in both the US and South Korea late last year.

A genetic analysis of meat found in Los Angeles showed that it was identical to meat from a sei whale being sold in Japan in 2007... Criminal proceedings have started against the Los Angeles restaurant caught selling the whale meat.

The problem has even been found with whale meat being sold to customers in an LA sushi restaurant.

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