Whale meat hunted by commercial fleet on sale at Japanese department store

A major department store in Osaka on Monday started selling whale meat from the catch of Japan's commercial whaling fleet, which resumed its activities last week after a 31-year hiatus.The Hankyu Department Store chain's flagship outlet, which had previously sold by-product whale meat from the country's so-called research whaling, stocked around 30 kilograms of red meat from minke whales caught off the coast of Kushiro in Hokkaido last Thursday."I want to show the younger generation, who aren't familiar with whale meat, how delicious it is," said a member of staff at the store, located in t…READ FULL ARTICLE