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Breaking news: Japanese schools serving whale meat
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WHALE meat is on the menu of a sixth of Japanese primary and junior high schools, a survey released today showed.
In Japan, 5355 schools out of the 29,600 public primary and junior high schools with canteens for students, served whale meat at least once up to March 2010, during the school year , a survey by Kyodo news revealed.
In the rising sun country, cooked whale meat was regularly present in school lunch menus in the 1960s and 1970s as the annual supply of the meat reached a peak of 220,000 tonnes. It subsequently got out of use and its supply dwindled to around 1000 tonnes in the 1990s, when there was the introduction of an international ban on commercial whaling.
But schools have recently resumed proving whale meat for lunch, as the country gradually increased its catch of the ocean giants, Kyodo said.
Japan hunts whales under a loophole to an international moratorium, which allows the killing of the sea mammals for scientific research. However the country does not hide the fact that the meat is later sold in shops and restaurants, as it is considered a biological and healthy food.
Read more: news.com
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