Cooked whale meat, we discovered, had the consistency of tuna tartare and a slightly gamy flavor.

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"I don't think any kid will eat whale meat, " says 11-year-old skateboarder Sindri Svensson, whose father enjoys it.

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Though Dave lives in Tokyo, and though whale meat is available at a nearby supermarket, he'd never tried it.

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The people next to us fussed over Kujira's signature harihari-nabe, a roiling pot of whale meat boiled with vegetables and tofu.

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According to the Japan Whaling Association, whale meat accounted for 48% of Japanese meat consumption in the 1960s (it was included in school lunches until 1985).

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We piled on carrots, white and green onions and whale meat.

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In 1981, he secretly entered Siberia to document a Soviet food-processing facility that was converting illegally harvested whale meat into feed for animals at a fur farm.

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Young people with whom I chatted in Ulsan believe that whale meat is an older person's dish, a taste forged in the harsh after-flames of World War II.

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The Japanese fleet is run by the government-subsidized Institute for Cetacean Research, in Tokyo, but the institute has produced virtually no research of any regard, and all the whales that are purported to be under study are also butchered for the purpose of selling whale meat to the Japanese public.

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Raw whale-meat bacon (a.k.a. blubber) was white, hard to swallow and tasted like pork fat injected with cod-liver oil.

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