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No One Eats Whales. Why Does Anyone Kill Them?
The Big Money (Slate) ^
| June 21, 2010
| Peter Christian Hall
Posted on 07/21/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by sinanju
"..But the larger question is: Why does anyone bother to hunt whales anymore? The economics of whale hunting are simply dismal. No whaling nation profits from it. Japans annual, much-criticized Antarctic hunt hasnt involved private capital for years. As Leape notes: Japans is a very small industry, employing less than 1,000 people, catching many more whales than they can sell. They try to promote it with school children and free-whale-meat days and its not catching on.
In Norway, although government-subsidized coastal whalers have missed their annual quota nine times in the last decade, blubber stockpiles mount as consumers ignore state-backed ad campaigns for burgers, ham, and pastrami made of whale. The government cut off subsidies that paid for the whalers inspection program, leaving only an electronic system that the IWC deems unacceptable, according to Sink or Swim: The Economics of Whaling today, a 2009 study by the Whale & Dolphin Conservation Society.
That came weeks after Icelands Ministry for Fisheries & Agriculture announced that a report it had commissioned from the University of Icelands Institute of Economic Studies (neither the institute nor the ministry have posted it) said that the economically devastated country could benefit from killing 300 whales annually. Conceding that direct whaling profits were not quantifiable, the study attributed most of the projected gain to $94 million in additional fish that it estimated would be caught if some whales were killed, according to Iceland Review online."
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To: sinanju
a 2009 study by the Whale & Dolphin Conservation SocietyIt is possible there was a slight bias in this report.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:28:01 PM PDT
by
eclecticEel
(Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: 7/4/1776 - 3/21/2010)
To: digger48
That looks pretty yummy to me.
42
posted on
07/21/2010 8:28:28 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: ArrogantBustard
43
posted on
07/21/2010 8:28:57 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
To: Nervous Tick
Add welfare to your list also.
44
posted on
07/21/2010 8:30:38 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
To: mylife
looks like a nice rare tenderloin.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:32:17 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: wendy1946
I have never had anyone explain to me why I should give a damn about someone hunting whales. People here hunt deer, is it not the same?
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:32:28 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(Planned Parenthood... killing more blacks than the Ku Klux Klan could have ever dreamed of.)
To: proud_yank; sinanju
Peter Christian Hall is a New York-based writer and filmmaker who has published articles in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and the Village Voice.Don't know this guy from Adam but could he be an enviro nazi?
Hey Yank, I'd try it if I had the chance. :)
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:33:03 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
To: digger48
Yes it does!
I bet its better than alligator, and alligator is pretty darned good.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:34:30 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: mylife
Sheez.... You'll eat anything that doesn't attract flies.... Uh, wait...
;-)
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:36:10 PM PDT
by
50cal Smokepole
(Effective gun control involves effective recoil management)
To: 50cal Smokepole
Let’s just say I’ll try anything once.
Most things twice.
50
posted on
07/21/2010 8:38:03 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: driftdiver
How is it any different than killing a cow?I can't be sure, burp, but people want to eat cow meat.
To: mylife
And what did you think? Better that raw Octopus?
It wasn't bad, and I'd eat it again. It was cut in small strips, .25 x .25 x 2", and pickled with onions. The texture was similar to calamari steaks (cooked, not fried and not the rings), and the taste was similar to sweet pickles.
I work in the Arctic, and a native friend brought some up. One day I will go to Barrow or Cross Island when they do a whale haul, people who have seen it done say there is nothing like it.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:40:08 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: proud_yank
LOL indeed
Ask any Eskimo about eating whlaes - they will say that whale is yummy....
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:40:38 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Alpha India Alpha Three Tango Alpha)
To: proud_yank
Whale oil often needed to read a good book.
Back in the day
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:40:50 PM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: mhx
Aha! It's your fault!
Just tryin' to do my part ;-)
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:41:29 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: mylife
had some smoked alligator once, but I think the mass quantites of $1.39/sixpack Old Milwaukee mighta masked the flavor.
Remember it was kinda chewy.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:42:07 PM PDT
by
digger48
To: proud_yank
Now...
Muktuk is just the blubber isnt it?
The mexicans make something like that with pork fat. pickled.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:42:56 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: digger48
Kinda the texture of a pork chop.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:44:06 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: ASOC
This was pickled, and it wasn’t bad. I’d prefer a moose burger or the black bear ribs I cooked the other night, but would certainly eat it again! :-)
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:44:21 PM PDT
by
proud_yank
(Socialism - An Answer In Search Of A Question For Over 100 Years)
To: Blood of Tyrants
"I am wondering about that photo. I mean what is the chance that you would be taking a picture just at the instance a whale jumped out of the water and onto a boat?" That whale was swimming around for a while, about 1/2 an hour or so. They were probably watching it. So, it was VERY possible to take that picture.
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