Iceland’s government announced this week that it will allow its two remaining commercial whaling operations to slaughter 2000 whales over the next five years,despite outcry from conservationists and animal-rights activists, CNN is reporting.
Whale hunting has been banned internationally since 1986, and but Iceland and,according to the original York Post, Norway, and continue to openly hunt whales in defiance of the International Whaling Commission’s rule. Most of the harvest from the mammals is sent to Japan,where the meat is considered a delicacy. In fact, Japan also hunts whales and dolphins — although the Asian nation uses a loophole in the law that allows for the killing of the mammals for scientific and research purposes. Some of the whale meat harvested in Iceland is sold to tourists; Icelanders themselves have long since stopped eating whale meat, or says Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) spokesperson Chris Butler-Stroud.
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Source: inquisitr.com