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I had hoped when there was an exposé about whale meat, poisoned with heavy metals, being fed to students that this would discourage the practice in Japan: https
by ianbicking 7y ago
I had hoped when there was an exposé about whale meat, poisoned with heavy metals, being fed to students that this would discourage the practice in Japan: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-whalemeat/whalemeat-in-japanese-school-lunches-found-toxic-idUST6359120070801 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-japan-whalemeat/whalemeat...
Sadly no. (I also got the impression that people didn't want to eat whale meat, which was why it was being foisted onto kids.)
Do the countries that hunt whales test the whale meat systematically?
- mcguire 7y ago""I'm a bit nervous but happy that we can start whaling," one whaler told AFP news agency before setting sail. "I don't think young people know how to cook and eat whale meat any more. I want more people try to taste it at least once."" I don't know that whale meat is economically viable.
- magduf 7y ago""I'm a bit nervous but happy that we can start selling tobacco," one tobacconist told AFP news agency before opening shop. "I don't think young people know how to chew and smoke tobacco any more. I want more people try to smoke it at least once."" If schools were giving out free samples of tobacco, marijuana, heroin, meth, etc., and urging kids to try it, how well would that go over?
- pintxo 7y agoSome of the kids might actually like that and start asking for more. Regarding whale meat, I am not so sure.
- drak0n1c 7y agoConservation aside, most Japanese don't like it or eat it because it tastes bad, isn't clean, and is increasingly expensive. My mother growing up in post-war Japan was fed whale meat in school lunches. It used to be eaten as a necessity, a cheap hunter-gatherer protein in the wake of the devastating war. It tasted really bad she says, and she doesn't seek it out, but for reasons of nostalgia and because it's now expensive it seems to have become a delicacy for others.
- raverbashing 7y agoIt seems every day the older generation becomes a worse threat for the younger generation
- mcguire 7y agoYeah, they should have been glocked before they could breed...?
- dang 7y agoWould you please stop posting flamebait to HN? You have a long history of it, we've asked you many times, and when people keep ignoring our requests we eventually ban them. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dTal 7y agoI don't understand the sheer bone-headed stubbornness of Japanese whaling, given that nobody even likes or eats whale. Who is pushing so hard for this, in the face of international condemnation? And why? Don't tell me it's "traditional" - modern whale hunting bears no resemblance to its "traditional" roots. Do people really care so much about seeing whale on shop shelves, even though they don't actually care to eat it? Is it a childish backlash against being told what to do? What is it?
- mcguire 7y agoIn the US, I suggest we'd blame the whaling industry and its lobby.
- sandworm101 7y agoIt is a nostalgia thing tied to "traditional values". Whale meat was served in schools generations ago. Young people don't want it but the elderly still like to enjoy foods from their youth. Old people, seeing the changing culture, want whale meat in schools because they want the kids to be more like the were, like they remember they were when they were kids. It is pure retro nostalgia.