• PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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?

    • fox [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.