Growing up in a Filipino household, he didn't eat whale meat as a child, and saw it as a relic of a bygone era. After meeting Oyvind at a whale food showcase his views changed. Jonathan Romano ...

The Faroe government only mentions that ‘children and pregnant women should maybe abstain from eating whale meat’. Morlok of ProWal argues that slaughtering whales nowadays is unnecessary ...

Though Japan's government maintains that eating whale is a cherished part ... a hotspot where slices of whale meat are simmered with mizuna greens and, the simplest, raw whale dipped in soy ...

Meat from fin whales caught for the first time in nearly 50 years off Japan’s northern coast fetched up to about £1,030 per kilo at auction. Japan’s Fisheries Agency this year added fin ...

WWF, the conservation organization, today warned that an initial toxic analysis on Norwegian Minke whale meat and blubber samples destined for human consumption has shown that these contain some of ...

Whale meat in Japan has been sold at auction for sky-high prices following the first commercial hunt since a ban was lifted. Meat cut-offs from two minkes sold for up to 15,000 yen ($140 ...

MINAMI-BOSO, Chiba Prefecture--A soft-serve milk ice cream topped with generous slices of raw whale meat. Anyone? Hanamaru Ichiba, a farmers’ market at roadside rest facility Rosemary Park here ...

In Shimonoseki, where 250 kilograms (550 lbs) of fin whale meat was flown from Hokkaido for the event, the tail meat — a delicacy known as “onomi” — fetched the day’s highest price at ...

The other bear looked up at us but would not leave the whale." Although she said the couple have seen many beached whales in their decades living there, they'd never seen a bear eating one.

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture--Raw whale meat fetched 500,000 yen ($3,560) per kilogram at an auction here on Nov. 14, double the previous record of 250,000 yen set in Osaka in October.

Whale meat in Japan was an affordable source of protein for the country’s malnourished population in the years following World War II, with annual consumption peaking at 233,000 tons in 1962.