Oscar Winners ("The Cove") Try to Keep Whale Off American Sushi Plates

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Rant - Oscar Winners ("The Cove") Try to Keep Whale Off American Sushi Plates

SANTA MONICA, Calif. — It is sport among black belt sushi eaters here to see just how daring one’s palate can be. But even among the squid-chomping, roe-eating and uni-nibbling fans, whale is almost unheard of on the plate. It also happens to be illegal.

Yet with video cameras and tiny microphones, the team behind Sunday’s Oscar-winning documentary film “The Cove” orchestrated a Hollywood-meets-Greenpeace-style covert operation to ferret out what the authorities say is illegal whale meat at one of this town’s most highly regarded sushi destinations.

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H20MansLibrary
20 weeks ago

I lived in Japan for 5 years and there was definitely whale meat on the menu every so often. The interesting part was the local response. Kind of an ostrich head in the ground approach.

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Sea-spout
20 weeks ago

On a visit to the Makah Rez a few years back, a fellow told me that after they landed one of the whales it was really difficult for them to put it to full use because all the younger generations had no taste for it. He said it was pretty tough on the older generation because they fought like hell to resume their hunting rite/right.

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