Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

With Sales Down, Whale Meat Flogged As Source of Strength

Posted by timothy on from the why-not-flog-whale-ice-cream-instead? dept.

beaverdownunder writes "From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 'Japan's peak whaling body has launched a new campaign to promote whale meat as a nutritious food that enhances physical strength and reduces fatigue. With about 5,000 tonnes of whale meat sitting unwanted in freezers around Japan, the country's Institute for Cetacean Research has decided to launch a new campaign to promote the by-product of its so-called scientific whaling program. Once popular in school lunches, younger generations of Japanese rarely, if ever, eat whale."

11 of 311 comments (clear)

  1. May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls by bruce_the_loon · · Score: 5, Funny

    The bastards and their ships need to be pulled down to the deep dark ooze of the abyss where tentacled beasties will toy with their souls for eternity.

    --
    Trying to become famous by taking photos. Visit my homepage please.
    1. Re:May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls by Big+Hairy+Ian · · Score: 4, Funny

      So this research that they claim that the whaling is for would appear to be market research???

      --

      Build a Man a Fire, and He'll Be Warm for a Day. Set a Man on Fire, and He'll Be Warm for the Rest of His Life.

    2. Re:May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      The Kappamaki, a whaling research ship, was currently researching the question: How many whales can you catch in one week?
                      -- (Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens)

    3. Re:May Bel-Shamharoth eat their souls by Immerman · · Score: 3, Funny

      The whales might disagree. In fact it seems they did at one point - Moby Dick was inspired by actual events, and not just the actions of a single whale, but an uprising among the wider population. Of course we rapidly demonstrated our ability to counter-attack with ever-greater ferocity and they seem to have eventually decided that fighting us was counter-productive.

      --
      --- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
  2. Counter-campaign by physicsphairy · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Eat this and you, too, can look like a whale!"

    --
    When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
  3. Again? by Smivs · · Score: 4, Funny

    Whale meat again,
    Don't know where,
    don't know when.
    But I'll know whale meat again,
    some sunnyyyyyyy day!

    --
    Smivs on the intertubes!
  4. Food from the ocean is now thoughly abusrd by Jonah+Hex · · Score: 3, Funny

    From whales to sea kittens, eating stuff from the ocean is now completely absurd. I'm sticking with cows.. yummy, yummy dead cow. Surely no one could object to eating a cow! - HEX

    --
    Horror & SciFi Erotic Nudes
  5. Whaling is bad by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll destroy humanity. I learned it in Star Trek 4.

    --
    "A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
  6. Re:Tell me it's a source of strength for my... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Flogged" being a synonym for "beat", there seems to be some hint of autoeroticism about this one. . .

    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  7. Re:It's actually surprisingly cheap... by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 3, Funny

    . . . fried whale, whale sashimi, whale soup, and some udon noodles . . .

    "But I don't like whale . . . do you have something without whale . . . ?

    "You mean . . . udon noodles, without whale . . . ? Uck!"

    "Can I have spam, instead of whale . . . ?"

    --
    Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
  8. Re:in my honest opinion by lxs · · Score: 5, Funny

    we are coming to a point where we can literally grow our foods

    Oh dear, have I accidentally set my time machine 10000 years too far into the past? I was supposed to end up in 2013.