| ▲ | Insimwytim 5 hours ago | |
> USSR nearly made whales extinct USSR barely accounted for 15% of the world caught amount (with Japan as the leader). > that nobody wanted to eat unsubstantiated. | ||
| ▲ | linsomniac 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
> unsubstantiated Agreed for USSR, but I think the person you replied to is misremembering the country, I believe they are thinking of Japan. I heard it recently on Stuff You Should Know, which usually does a good job of researching their stories, and it sounds like it is substantiated but may be a bit more complex than presented, but literally true. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/save-the-whales/id2789... https://theworld.org/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/japa... https://theworld.org/stories/2019/04/16/whaling-japan-2 https://japantoday.com/category/national/75-of-meat-from-jap... https://www.traffic.org/site/assets/files/3994/whale_meat_tr... | ||
| ▲ | brabel 33 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
Thank you for correcting that awfully incorrect factoid. | ||
| ▲ | tencentshill 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Whale meat is really bad, now only eaten ceremonially in most places. It was an unrationed meat in the Britain during WWII, and people still didn't go for it. | ||