Iceland to begin whalemeat trade (BBC)

[Omaha Steve]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5319734.stm


Iceland to begin whalemeat trade
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website


Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat from its scientific whaling programme.

Iceland's whaling commissioner told the BBC that up to two tonnes of minke whalemeat would be exported to the Faroe Islands.


Some of Iceland's scientific catch will be exported to the Faroes


Environmental groups say the deal breaches international rules on trading threatened species, though Iceland and the Faroe Islands say it does not.

Campaigners also say the trade could become a smokescreen for illegal hunting of whales.

FULL story at link above.

[hatrack]

1. Yummmmmmmmmm!! PCBs AND dioxin - tickles my palate - and you?

:puke:

[rpannier]

2. They've been caught over and over by environmental groups

and various governments (including, but not limited to the UK, Ireland, France, the US, Canada and the Netherlands) illegally hunting whales.

I guess they're borrowing from scrubbie and the republikkaners: If you keep telling the same lie long enough, maybe people will believe it as a fact.