Last year, seafood crazed Japan decided that whale meat should return to the dinner table. According to an article from MSNBC, Japanese consumers aren’t so eager for the stuff.

“To put it simply, whale meat tastes horrible,” said 30-year-old Kosuke Nakamura, one of the diners at a Hana No Mai restaurant in Tokyo who turned their noses up at whale meat.

Young people are put off by the tough, pungent meat, Nakamura said, while older Japanese are reminded of the lean years after the country’s defeat in World War II.

Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986 except for limited research. Using some ass-backwards logic, the Japanese government has called their whale hunting “a research program” and is “needed to establish reliable information on whale populations and habits [which] can only be obtained by killing the animals.”

The profits from hunting are put back into this “research program” as well promotion for the consumption of whale meat. This sounds like capitalism, not science.

The rest of the world doesn’t share the opinion that whale populations are so enormous that we should resume throwing spears into the back of Moby Dick.

I think the Japanese have lost their minds from eating too much fugu and mercury-laced tuna.

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