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> USSR nearly made whales extinct USSR barely accounted for 15% of the world caught amount (with Japan as the leader). > that nobody wanted to eat unsubstant

> USSR nearly made whales extinct USSR barely accounted for 15% of the world caught amount (with Japan as the leader). > that nobody wanted to eat unsubstantiated.

tencentshill 5mo ago
Whale meat is really bad, now only eaten ceremonially in most places. It was an unrationed meat in the Britain during WWII, and people still didn't go for it.
linsomniac 5mo ago
> unsubstantiated Agreed for USSR, but I think the person you replied to is misremembering the country, I believe they are thinking of Japan. I heard it recently on Stuff You Should Know, which usually does a good job of researching their stories, and it sounds like it is substantiated but may be a bit more complex than presented, but literally true. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id278981407?i=1000764001253 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id2789... https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/130214/whaling-whalemeat-japanese-food https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japa... https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-japans-pacific-whale-hunt-unsold https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-jap... https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3994/whale_meat_trade_in_japan.pdf https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3994/whale_meat_tr...
brabel 5mo ago
Thank you for correcting that awfully incorrect factoid.
pjc50 5mo ago
see https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-soviet-whaling-greenpeace-twentieth-century.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-sovie... and https://www.i-deel.org/blog/mass-killing-for-no-reason-the-paradox-of-soviet-whaling https://www.i-deel.org/blog/mass-killing-for-no-reason-the-p...

> USSR nearly made whales extinct USSR barely accounted for 15% of the world caught amount (with Japan as the leader). > that nobody wanted to eat unsubstantiated.

tencentshill 5mo ago

Whale meat is really bad, now only eaten ceremonially in most places. It was an unrationed meat in the Britain during WWII, and people still didn't go for it.

linsomniac 5mo ago

> unsubstantiated Agreed for USSR, but I think the person you replied to is misremembering the country, I believe they are thinking of Japan. I heard it recently on Stuff You Should Know, which usually does a good job of researching their stories, and it sounds like it is substantiated but may be a bit more complex than presented, but literally true. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id278981407?i=1000764001253 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id2789... https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japan/130214/whaling-whalemeat-japanese-food https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japa... https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-japans-pacific-whale-hunt-unsold https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-jap... https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3994/whale_meat_trade_in_japan.pdf https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3994/whale_meat_tr...

brabel 5mo ago

Thank you for correcting that awfully incorrect factoid.

pjc50 5mo ago

see https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-soviet-whaling-greenpeace-twentieth-century.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/06/history-of-sovie... and https://www.i-deel.org/blog/mass-killing-for-no-reason-the-paradox-of-soviet-whaling https://www.i-deel.org/blog/mass-killing-for-no-reason-the-p...