13 February 2016
To eat or not to eat, experience of food and culture is unique in country.
To eat the meat of venison or pigeons or to hunt foxes were
well cultivated custom in European countries. On the other hands, to eat whales
or to hunt whales were lupine custom in European countries. In the small
islands in Far East, there were the different situations in these customs. Fortunately
or unfortunately, I love both customs. In late autumn, I am looking for the
restaurant where serve nice dishes of venison or pigeons and Burgundy wine from
France. On visiting several favourite restaurants of Japanese foods, Itamae
recommend me the nice part of whales which they bring from Tsukiji market.
Mr. Wingfield-Hays was a very un-lucky gentleman. He and his
friends might have never seen and tried the best part and spices of whales. As
embarrassing, it was the first time when I had really lovely meat of whale at
Kiyokawa three years ago. Draining blood from the meat on the whale boats were
very important process for the meat not to make “gamey flavour”.
My parents had also an unbalanced diet during traveling
around Europa. When we visited to a bistro in Paris, I was very excited to choose
pigeon from venison, pigeon or sole on the lists. My mother was as surprised at
me as she faced the end of the world. One hundred and fifty years ago, eating
four leg animal was prohibited and disliked due to the religious rule of Buddhism.
The dish of pigeon was lovely dish I had never had in Japan. The juicy meat and
nice flavour of sauce was memorable.
As the BBC journalist, he might have had some duties to
write radical articles as Sea Shepard due to commercial reasons, with small
amount of experience having meat of whales. As the typical middle couple from
Japan, my parents have never taste the gibier as traditional French dishes. These
people I described, had huge preoccupation on the ingredients. These
ingredients were not prohibited under their religions and their countries laws.
They felt just an aversion to eating or knowing how the animal be shoot.
The ingredients which was prohibited under the religions
were regarded as importance. The ones which was faced extinction were also
thought as importance. According to the Norwegian Fisheries web sites, Minke
whales were not damaged species. The rumour data among Itamae in Japan said the
number of blue whales landed on the fisherman’s ports were decreasing. These
facts show the balance of ecosystem was already broken under the IWC moratorium,
There was no scientific epidemiological data of whales on the earth from the
countries against whaling in IWC.
All discussions were emotional argument and dichotomy
between desirable and undesirable as my mother’s word “feel sick”.
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