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...number of endangered and threatened species at a meeting of the U.N. Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES). Of the roughly 40 proposals on the agenda, the most contentious dealt with a prized fish. Japan, which imports nearly 80% of bluefin tuna for use in sushi and sashimi, fought hard against a proposed trade ban. Conservationists warned against prioritizing economic interests over the survival of an entire species...
...people really going to stop dining at Nobu if they can't get bluefin? Half the time they don't even know what kind of tuna they're eating anyway. I recently had albacore sashimi in Michael Schulson's Izakaya at the Borgata in Atlantic City, N.J., and it was incredible - rich, silky, firm and, better still, something I hadn't already eaten 10,000 times. If a casino restaurant can do sushi like that, why can't everybody? And we diners have to do our part by refusing to order wild bluefin or even making our peace with...
...there is more than just fish politics and food culture at stake for Japan when it comes to whaling. Even though few Japanese ever sit down to a plate of whale sashimi, they still resist viscerally the idea that the international community could force Japan to stop whaling. A country that arguably never returned to full sovereignty after World War II - its constitution greatly limits its military, and U.S. armed forces are still based throughout Japan - can get tired of the world telling it what to do. As a Japanese chef told me at that whale festival...
...When you cover a whale-tasting event, you have to taste whale. And morality aside, I can tell you that whale meat isn't good. As sushi and sashimi, it was fatty and chewy with a bland, blubbery taste - like salmon that's been kept out too long. The one exception was the whale noodle dish, but I'm going to say its success had more to do with the noodles and spicy broth than it did with the whale. All in all, the experience made it hard for me to keep a straight face when people referred to whale...
...described as impoverished, and a 2008 survey found that 95% of Japanese either eat whale meat very rarely or not at all. The fishing company that owns Japan's whaling ships estimated that annual per capita consumption from its catch might amount to less than four slices of sashimi a year. If Japanese whaling - which is allowed under the international ban only on a very small scale, as "scientific research" - ended tomorrow, your average salaryman in Osaka would barely notice...