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Reducing the Demand for Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan
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by Simples | October 30, 2009 at 11:49 am
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Reducing the Demand for Whale and Dolphin Meat in Japan
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2,500 Japanese supermarket and convenience stores to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
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As a result of EIA's campaign and negotiations with Japanese supermarkets, over 2, 000 supermarkets in Japan are no longer selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products like this.
EIA has successfully persuaded over 2,500 Japanese supermarket and convenience stores to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
EIA has led a campaign since 2001 to persuade major Japanese supermarket chains to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
Using detailed research and onsite investigations, EIA has successfully persuaded over 2,500 Japanese supermarket and convenience stores to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
Using DNA and chemical analysis techniques, EIA has been able to demonstrate how Japanese consumers are consuming toxic dolphin and toothed whale products which are often labelled as whale meat.
"The food safety issue has been a major motivator for Japanese supermarkets to ban cetacean products."
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at 12:41 on October 30th, 2009
2,500 Japanese supermarket and convenience stores to stop selling whale, dolphin and porpoise products.
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at 12:44 on October 30th, 2009
dolphins and humans are intelligent mammals, eating them seems so.. inhumane.
at 10:57 on October 31st, 2009
Although I don't know how receptive the Japanese society is, but I think education and public awareness might be a useful campaign there.
at 10:35 on October 31st, 2009
That is a good initiative, the question will be how long it will last. They should add on the red Tuna fish that is fished beyond distinction in the Mediterranean. Over 80% of the catch is exported to Japan for their sushi meals.
at 13:30 on November 1st, 2009
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Export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan, after wrapping up its hunting season for this year. Iceland plans huge whale meat export to Japan: firm
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Reykjavik (AFP) Sept 25, 2009
Iceland's fin whaling company said on Friday it plans a huge export of about 1,500 tonnes of whale meat, mainly to Japan, after wrapping up its hunting season for this year.
Kristjan Loftsson, boss of company Hvalur, said the firm brought ashore 125 fin whales this season following a huge rise in the number of animals they were allowed to catch.
Last year the whalers were permitted to catch just nine fin whales -- that figure rose to 150 for the 2009 season.
"We have about 1,500 tonnes of frozen produce that we are preparing to export," said Loftsson, with Japan the main customer.
"I am happy with the season," he added.
Loftsson said his whalers were wrapping up the 2009 season after bringing ashore their final two whales on Friday.
The fishermen caught all but 25 of the fin whales permitted by the quota.
Hvalur is the only company authorised to hunt fin whales in Iceland.
Iceland's whaling season opened on May 26 amid fierce opposition from environmental groups angered by the sharp quota rise.
As well as the fin whale increase, the minke whale quota increased to 100 from 40.
Greenpeace attacked Iceland's leaders over the increase, angered that a left-wing administration elected a month before the start of the season would not reconsider the quota increases.
Many species of whales are now endangered and hunting of the marine mammal was officially banned with a moratorium in 1986.
Iceland and Norway are the only two countries in the world that now authorise commercial whaling.
Iceland withdrew from the moratorium in 2006, and Norway in 1993, triggering an international outcry on both occasions.
Japan officially allows whaling for scientific purposes, but the meat is then sold to restaurants and supermarkets.
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at 14:25 on November 2nd, 2009
Japanese town starts dolphin hunt under global spotlight
"If it's cruel to kill dolphins, it's also cruel to kill cows and pigs," Hiromitsu Taniguchi, a 41-year-old house painter, told AFP during a recent interview as several of his friends nodded in agreement. "I can never understand those Westerners' argument. They eat cattle, pigs and chicken. We eat dolphins and whales. That's it."
We eat dolphins and whales.
To animal rights activists it's a cruel and bloody slaughter; for Japanese it's a long tradition: this week fishermen in a picturesque coastal town embarked on their annual dolphin hunt.
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Taiji, Japan (AFP) Sept 11, 2009