whale-meat

But Japan has continued to hunt whales as scientific research - while not hiding the fact that whale meat ends up in restaurants and shops.

Ther is only a very small domestic market for whale meat in Iceland and over 99% of whale meat produced was exported to Japan.

Japan, however, argued against the ban, saying whaling was a long tradition in the country and whale meat a key part of the Japanese diet.

No wonder so much red whale meat finds its way, illegally, to restaurants in places from South Korea to California.

Jang-geum proved her prowess in her cooking skill while preparing whale meat.

Add to the sensory experience the accumulated mercury to be found in whale meat.

Whale meat holds sentimental value for some Japanese baby- boomers and older people who ate it after the devastation of World War II.

Whale meat is back on the menu at around a sixth of Japan's state-run elementary and junior high schools, AFP reported.

Much of the tainted dolphin meat ends up as counterfeit whale meat in Tokyo and other large cities.

Photo: Whale meat from Japan's "research" programs on sale in a market in Osaka.

Even though they were labeled whale meat , they were dolphin meat .

Greenland celebrated home rule from Denmark by distributing two tonnes of rare whale meat.

And morality aside, I can tell you that whale meat isn't good.

This week, sashimi quality red whale meat is selling for the equivalent of about 22 dollars a kilogram.

In2006 a UK conservation group reported that Japan was killing so manywhales that surplus whale meat was being sold as pet food.

Critics outside the country say the research program is simply a front for continuing to satisfy Japan's taste for whale meat.

Japan has a growing stockpile of unsold whale meat, which is dwindling in popularity among younger consumers.

And some of those whale meat samples were whale meat.

Whale meat is scarce & not easily available, Thus, beef is used to replace whale meat in this Beef-Mushroom-Sanjeok.

This whale meat is the product of Japan's whale research program.

It turns out that a lot of dolphins are being sold as meat in the whale meat market around the world.

Over the past week, some 2000 tons of fresh whale meat has been distributed throughout Japan.

Although Tokyo vigorously defends the whale hunt as scientific research, whale meat - a delicacy in Japan - ends up in supermarkets.

In order to obtain blubber and whale meat, people who wantonly kill many types of whales.

But compared with the Japaneses deep-rooted tradition with whale meat, in China's situation, it is not as serious as people think.

Some Japanese say they no longer want to eat whale meat because it costs too much and it is no longer a popular food.

The whale meat is sold after the hunt.

It claims the hunt isfor scientific research; its critics say this is a brazen front for acommercial whale-meat harvest.

This is whale meat that I photographed in a grocery store in Tokyo -- or is it?

In Japan and Norway, the whaling business by selling whale meat big fortunes, where whale meat per kilogram can be sold at 350 U.

Some restaurants sell whale meat in Japan, lead the international community criticized.

In Japan, as I understand it, traditionally they have eaten whale meat for centuries.

Consumption of whale meat in Japan increased significantly after the second world war.

Indeed, even in Japan, whale meat isn't that popular.

Perhaps they will raise whale meat in their own aquariums for a time to offset the international community's new laws;

A Piece of Whale Meat