Androniki Christodoulou/Reuters
"There are many major supermarkets that are afraid of being harassed by anti-whaling groups, so they won't use whale,” Tokoro told Reuters at the vending machine launch.The products on sale mainly contain whale caught in Japan, a company spokesperson said, with prices ranging from 1,000 yen to 3,000 yen .Toshikazu Sato/AP
In line with other whaling nations such as Norway and Iceland, the Japanese government has said whaling is part of its culture. He told SBS Dateline he’s not surprised by the whaling company’s attempt to sell whale meat in vending machines but is sceptical it will be popular among the younger population.“I am angry about what the whaling industry is doing to the environment and to this precious species,” he told SBS Dateline.
Canada left the IWC in 1982. In the same year, Norway lodged an official objection to the moratorium and is not bound by it. Iceland left the IWC in 1992 but rejoined in 2002 with a reservation, resuming commercial whaling in 2006.There were exceptions in the moratorium, allowing indigenous subsistence whaling and whaling for scientific research.While Japan continued to hunt whales for what it said were research purposes, it left the IWC in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling.
Is that not illegal... though it was whale research and not fishing
This is absolutely disgusting! Perhaps they should slaughter their own population to become extinct!! No compassion what so ever!! Freedom of speech is warranted under these circumstances!! Destroying and abolishing our sustainable ecosystems 🌊🐋🦈🦭🐳🐟🐠🐡🐙🐾
Boycott Japan, stop being a vassal to US policy
A country with no capacity of growing their own meat to feed their own people without exploiting the ocean…
Can we put pork rolls in all the machines near hospitals schools publicbuildings
Yuck, leave the whales alone
Is it farmed or old stock...
JohnSte97315425 What?
Asking for trouble...what goes around comes around.
What?
probably Minke, not endangered. In 2001 Japan's fisheries minister caused outrage & went 'viral' calling them 'cockroaches of the sea'. When I watched the interview, the minister was responding to an Australian reporter's comment that we Aussies saw kangaroos as big cockroaches.
Yum
Why would you want any meat out of a vending machine?
If this is an outcome of scientific research then their ethics committee overseeing the research has some work to do...
Going down the same path as China , it’s disgusting 🤮 🤮and barbaric
Nooooo!
For “Research purposes”