SERVED as burgers and marinated in sweet and sour sauce, whale meat has returned to Japanese school lunches 20 years after it went off the menu amid global anti-whaling campaigns.
Officials said today that nearly 85 per cent of public elementary and junior high schools in Wakayama, Japan's western whaling heartland, are serving whale meat lunches.
And, the kids like it, or so their teachers say.
"Children say it is really tasty," said Wakayama education official Tetsuji Sawada.
from Rupert.
Posted by Quentin George at May 2, 2005 05:12 PM