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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That would make sense.