{"id":3420,"date":"2006-10-26T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T19:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/26\/3420"},"modified":"2006-10-26T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T19:00:24","slug":"iceland-hunting-endangered-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2006\/10\/iceland-hunting-endangered-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Iceland hunting endangered whales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Despite worldwide outcry and a ban on whaling in place since 1986, Iceland, like Japan, continues to kill whales using cruel methods, saying it&#8217;s for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific\u00e2\u20ac\u009d purposes.<\/strong> But now the government of Iceland has gone even further, launching a commercial whale hunt for the first time in more than two decades. Permits have been granted by Iceland&#8217;s Ministry of Fisheries for the hunting of 30 minke whales and nine endangered fin whales. In fact, whaling ships have already killed their first two endangered fin whales.<\/p>\n<p>Yet few Icelanders eat whale meat regularly (only 1.1{a9f0d31f6175b3e4775e11a66c07db268fb74408d6095f6b46eeec420c0e9f62} of Icelanders say they eat whale meat once a week or more*); and there is limited, if any, world market for the meat. A growing number of jobs in Iceland also depend on the country&#8217;s thriving whale-watching industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifaw.org\/ifaw\/general\/default.aspx?oid=17846\" rel=\"external\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/fin-whale.jpg\" alt=\"whalers skin an endangered fin whale\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boss.streamos.com\/wmedia\/ifaw\/whales\/icelandic_whaling_10-06.wvx\" rel=\"external\">Watch the latest video<\/a> of Iceland&#8217;s cruel killing of endangered fin whales. <em>Warning: Video contains graphic footage that may not be suitable for all viewers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/ifaw-logo.jpg\" alt=\"IFAW\" class=\"pic_50px\" \/>It&#8217;s quite rare for Iceland&#8217;s embassy to receive an outpouring of public comments on a political issue. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s not too late to have an impact!<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifaw.org\/ifaw\/general\/default.aspx?oid=17846\" rel=\"external\">Please send a polite message today<\/a> to protest Iceland&#8217;s terrible decision to resume commercial whale hunting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>*Gallup Poll, 2006<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite worldwide outcry and a ban on whaling in place since 1986, Iceland, like Japan, continues to kill whales using cruel methods, saying it&#8217;s for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153scientific\u00e2\u20ac\u009d purposes. But now the government of Iceland has gone even further, launching a commercial whale hunt for the first time in more than two decades. Permits have been granted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}