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Sushi. I don’t like it. Tried it once, tried it twice, just didn’t sit well with me. But that’s not what this is about.

Hitting supermarket shelves this year in Canada and the US will be a product called “Polar Seas Frozen Sushi”, from True World Foods. True World Foods, the self proclaimed ‘Premier seafood and sushi distributor in the US’, has recently partnered with Japanese whale meat trader, Kyokuyo.

Kyokuyo is a multinational company which has been hunting whales since 1930. It sells millions of cans of Polar Seas brand canned whale meat throughout Japan.

Since the 1930s, Japanese hunters have killed more than half a million whales. Kyokuyo alone has profited from the death of over 130,000 whales over the last 70 years.

The International Whaling Commission in 1986, made it illegal to hunt whales commercially, but a loophole that allows whaling for ’scientific purposes” continues to be exploited by Japan. More than 508 whales have already been killed in Japan’s hunt this year.

Japan now hunts over 1200 whales each year. Illegally, against international law.

Now they want to sell their illegal bounty in North America, marketed to the sushi eaters.

Along with shark finning, used to make Shark Fin Soup, the only reason whales are hunted is because of public ignorance. The more people buy, the more they will need to slaughter to keep up with demand.

The answer is simple. Do not buy these products. It’s an illegal fishery!

Is this Science?

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Tags: Japanese Mentality, Whaling //