@NightOwl@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml • 10 months agoIceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1850arrow-down119
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minus-square@PowerCrazy@lemmy.mllinkfedilink5•edit-210 months agoWell the prior user was implying that the purpose of whaling is to hunt them to extinction, which is a pretty strange policy to have for any nation. Is that actually Icelands purpose in the whale hunting, to make them extinct?
minus-squarefox [comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish22•10 months agoIt’s mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.
minus-square@Blackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglish3•10 months agoI’ve seen like a handful of places selling it in Iceland, and they’re all full of tourists who have it just to say they’ve had it. It’s not great meat by all accounts.
Well the prior user was implying that the purpose of whaling is to hunt them to extinction, which is a pretty strange policy to have for any nation. Is that actually Icelands purpose in the whale hunting, to make them extinct?
It’s mostly to sell to the Japanese market iirc. Not many in Iceland actually have a taste for whale. Huge waste of time and resources.
I’ve seen like a handful of places selling it in Iceland, and they’re all full of tourists who have it just to say they’ve had it.
It’s not great meat by all accounts.
That would make sense.