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“There isn’t a part of the whale that we Japanese don’t eat. We even make soup out of the blood.”

Yuriko Shiraishi of the Women’s Forum for Fish, during a whale-meat cooking class in Tokyo (Japan Times, 6 June)

“You put your head under the water and you could just hear them squealing. It was the best feeling ever.”

15-year-old Rachael Cooke on the moment when 80 beached false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) were shepherded out to sea by 1500 volunteers in Busselton, Western Australia (Herald Sun, Melbourne, 3 June)

“Live animals are not the sort of business we want to chase. We’re not here to…

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