A report into how consumers purchasing ‘whale meat’ in Japan are being misled through mislabelling of products on the market. They are often duped into buying meat from dolphins and porpoises when the product is labelled as ‘whale’ and may contain dangerously high levels of pollutants
Report into the relationship between convenience store chain 7-Eleven, Japanese majority owner Ito-Yokado and Japan’s ongoing killing of whales, dolphins and porpoises. Ito-Yokado plays a role in sustaining the Government of Japan’s flagrant refusal to follow the international moratorium on commercial hunting of whales
The Government of Japan still allows 22,000 small cetaceans to be legally killed each year in unregulated hunts around the coast, some of them rare or endangered and others threatened or in decline from overhunting