Whay does Japan love whale meat so much?
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Shortly after WWII, when the country was starving and struggling for nutrition, whale meat was all they had. So a lot of Japanese people grew up on it. It was served in their school lunches, and those people ended up serving it to their own children. They're used to having the option of whale meat, and it seems so normal to them that being told to stop eating whale seems outrageous, especially to the older Japanese people. What if, one day, Americans were told to stop eating beef, and not because of some immediate threat like mad cow disease? Wouldn't people keep doing it anyway? The truth is that most people, no matter what country they're from, are incredibly short-sighted. And as long as there's a market for whale meat (legal or illegal), there are still going to be whalers out there.\n\nMaybe once the whale-eating generation dies off, we'll have more luck trying to convince them to stop.\n\nEdited to add: The problem of whaling is not so much the cruelty (though that's horrible too), but the effects that whaling has on the ecosystem. See the link below or just do a search for "whaling" and "ecosystem."
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its actually a delicacy here. I am a soldier deployed here. Its not as gross as it sounds though. In korea they dont have the room for cow farms everywhere. So they raise dogs like cattle. Its not as popular nowadays then it was before. I am not sure of the spelling but it is called Kagulgi
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Killer Whales are very complicated creature and our biologist and scientist are yet to understand it fully.\n\nThis is Dolphin family.\n\nWhen a group, it is very ferocious to all the water species that includes even Sharks and some times Blue Whales.\n\nIt marches in the sea in a group of about 40 Killer Whales called school of Whales. During that time, it tarments and kills all who come across or confront with it.\n\nThe biggest strength of Killer Whales are its speed and acrobatic swimming skills.\n\nAs for as the defence machanism is concern, it can easily escape from any velunarable situation by its speed.\n\nIt is a friendly species of human being. There is no data that a Killer whale attacked a human being.
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Because people are realizing that animals are made out of MEAT. And meat tastes good. The more innocent the animal, the better they taste, too.
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Japan.\n\nThey still send out whaling ships to kill whales.\n\nKeep in mind, that just because it is illegal in some countries to kill whales and dolphins, it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. People just don't get caught. Or, sometimes they are accidentally killed in fishing nets.
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I live in Japan. It's pretty hygenic in a lot of ways but also backwards in others. People often brush their teeth regularly, several times a day but since they don't use fluoride and still somewhat treasure crooked teeth dental problems and cavities are extreemely common. Sex is scary here. In reality, condoms are the most common form of protection but abortion is said to be the depended on form of birth contol. One in five Japanese women has chlamydia When people get sick here they often wear masks to prevent them from passing it on to others but few will skip out on work out of duty. I don't think Japanese doctors are as extensively educated as western doctors either, but I have no stats on that. Cancer treatment, for one, is well behind that in the west and antibiotics are overprescribed (opinion-but they are given even when the doctor says you just have a cold). Oddly, Japanese think nothing of eating raw beef, raw eggs, or anything out of the ocean but raw vegetables like broccoli or carrots are unthinkable. Granted, Japanese standards on beef, dairy and fish are probably stricter than in America but it's still surprising. Another facet is the often destructive influence of mass thinking here. For instance, the cancer causing chemical Radon is often added to "Recuperative spas" because it is thought to have health benefits. Otherwise, pollution standards are reputedly lower here than in much of the west.
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It's a myth that baby seals are still killed. Juvenile seals are still harvested. It's got nothing to do with sport, it's mainly to reduce the seal's predation on fish stocks and the income for sealers is a bonus. It's not as if anyone claims that harp seals are an endagered species. If anything, there are more of them now than ever. If it's morally wrong to kill juvenile animals, then the veal and lamb industry is a lot larger offender than the seasonal sea hunt. If someone went to rural New Zealand and told them to leave those sheep alone, they would be told to go get stuffed. Why are people so suprised that folks in seal-hunting areas feel the same way?
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Because they are jealous, and the fat from their greaseburger combos make them even meaner and stupid.  I think fat girls who do that are reverting to animalistic behavior, and I think it's about food aggression.  If you have a pet with that issue, like a dog or cat, you know what I mean.  It might be that and the accumulation of all the additives in the food.  They think that if they project hate on you, it will ease their own low self-esteem.  Your daughter is eating what everybody else is eating, so switch to organic, low animal protein and lots of green foods; you don't want her to become fat and mean and bitter. Fat is inheritable, but so are bad habits. \n\nI don't know, maybe you should move.  Are you in the midwest or the south?  or in some rural or urban hell?  Those are areas noted for high numbers of obese people.  You represent normalcy and sanity in a loony bin.  To counter the nastiness, I'd wear the nice fashions that those whales can't wear, and make sure they see you eat that slice of cake with that flat belly.  \n\nMisery loves company, but you don't have to be a part of it.  Be proud of your body as it is, and go jogging or exercising with your children so that one day, they will move on to a nice college or town where people are not so mean, lazy, and fat.
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I've been to Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and American Samoa.\nThe strangest thing i ever encountered was when i ordered "BEEF STEW" in a dirt floor cafe in the Philippines.\nThere was a woman with me and she sat across the table to watch me eat it.\nIt was piled high on top of white rice.\nI was gobbling it down, Navy style, and the woman asked me, "You like?". I said, "Yeah, but it tastes funny...has a funny texture. What is this, horse meat?"\nShe replied, "No. Dats DOG!".\nI nearly lost it. i began to imagine my pet dog growing up. But i had already eaten half of it so i finished it.\nIf i had known what it was before i started eating it, i would have passed. But i don't like to waste food, and i was hungry.\nAlso had monkey meat...on a stick!\n"Monkey meat, chicken feet...you like eat?"\nPhilippines is a trip.\n\nHad Kobe beef, in Sasebo, Japan. Kobe beef is illegal in America. Because they strp a calf to a harness and it never touches the ground. They massage it's body with special oils and feed it a special diet.\nThe meat melts in your mouth. Nothing like it.\nIt's eaten raw in a rice roll, with greens.
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I like whales and dolphins. They are magestic and some are huge, not all of them though. I like them so much, I plan to go college to get my doctor's degree so I can study them as a cetologist.
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Mammals: Dolphin\nRange: all the oceans of the world\nHabitat: some are mainly coastal but other spend their lives far at sea\n\nIt’s all relative\nYou might not realize that dolphins are closely related to whales. The scientific order, called Cetacea, includes dolphins, whales, and porpoises. The dolphin family Delphinidae has 36 species in all. It can get confusing at times, because some members of the dolphin family have the word "whale" in their common name. In fact, the largest dolphin is the killer whale! Depending on the species, dolphins range in color from white, pearl, and pink to darker shades of brown, gray, blue, and black.\n\nRange\nDolphins can be found in virtually all the seas and oceans of the world.  Some species are sharply restricted, but many, like the common dolphin, Delphinus delphis, or the bottle nose dolphin, are found worldwide.  Several species are found in fresh water, notably the Ganges River dolphin, Platanista gangetica; the rivers of South America are the home of the long-snouted dolphin, Inia geoffrensis, and the small, graceful Sotalia fluviatilis, occasionally seen as far as 1,553 miles up the Amazon River.\n\nDolphins are quite abundant in some areas of the world.  Off the coast of Japan, for example, populations of the white-sided dolphin, are estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 individuals.  In many species, schools of up to 1,000 travel together, while some species, such as the bottle-nose dolphin, tend to be found in smaller groups of less than 100. \n\nRANGE:\nMost species live in tropical and temperate oceans throughout the world. Five species live in rivers.\n\nHABITAT:\nAll but five of the 34 dolphin species live in tropical and temperate oceans. Five species that live in rivers: baiji (Chinese River dolphin), boto (Amazon River dolphin), franciscana (La Plata River dolphin), Ganges River dolphin and Indus River dolphin.\n\nCHECK THIS:\n32 Dolphin Species\nhttp://www.dolphin-isl-greenware.org/marine_lab/blue_hangar/egdolfaq.htm#faq2\n\nhttp://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/dolphins.shtml
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I don't live in Alaska but I've been there and have friends living in Anchorage one of whom is half Inuit.  Off hand I can think of two non-fish food items but I don't know where you can get them.  The first is caribou meat and the second is muktuk.  If you're not used to it, caribou meat is probably best served barbequed or teriyaki style.  Muktuk is whale skin with a thin layer of blubber.  I have no clue where you can get it from other than a native Alaskan.\n\nHow about blue berries?  Alaska has lots of berries and my favorite is the blue berry.  Wouldn't that qualify as a food item from Alaska?
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Modern whaling\nAlthough whale oil has little commercial value today, whale meat has come to be considered a delicacy, particularly in Japan and Norway (though up to the 1980s, whale meat was considered to be inferior to beef in Norway.) The primary species hunted today is the minke whale, the smallest of the baleen whales. Recent scientific surveys estimate a population of 180,000 in the central and North East Atlantic and 700,000 around Antarctica.
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Yes.  A whale is a mammal, and one characteristic of all mammals is that they reproduce sexually.
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Japan because they have cool technology.
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As pointed out whales are mammals, they give birth to live young and nurse them with mammary glands. Whales have flippers that evolved from hands and actually have the digital structure pretty much intact, some even have the remains of pelvises and non-functioning hind limbs, clear evidence of their terrestrial origin.\n\nIf your really interested talkorigins.org has a really interesting article on the subject, it's heady, but a good read.
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You can eat any animal in the whole wide world. Unless their meat is deadly. isn't a puffer fish deadly?? I can't remember.