Kids forced to eat whale in school (10 tons of unsold meat for "traditional school lunch week") [View All]

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Source: Daily Telegraph

JAPAN'S whaling researchers dumped 10 tonnes of unsold whale meat into primary school lunches last month, labelling the event "traditional school lunch week".

In a desperate attempt to revive the flagging market, the Institute for Cetacean Research (ICR) supplied the research by-product to 254 Yokohama schools over two days, hoping to give their young palates a taste for whale meat.

Faced with a reported 3000 tonne inventory of unsold meat from last year's cull, the ICR contacted the Yokohama City Education committee, suggesting the department include research meat in their school lunches.

A total of 200,000 lunches of whale meat salad marinated in sesame sauce were served on January 21 and 22. Yokohama children have not eaten whale meat as part of school lunches in 26 years.

The ICR refused to comment on its controversial programs.

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