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- noun The
meat of awhale .
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Examples
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It has been claimed that substandard freezing methods on whaling ships, combined with the high price of the meat, have led to the decline in popularity, and the days when whalemeat formed a regular part of school lunches is long gone.
Huge bluefin tuna fetches record price in Tokyo, but whale is left on the shelf 2011
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At refrigerated stores across the country, thousands of tonnes of whalemeat lies unsold.
Huge bluefin tuna fetches record price in Tokyo, but whale is left on the shelf 2011
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The Japanese Dolphin and Whale Action Network said the country's whalemeat stockpile exceeded 6,000 tonnes last August, a record high.
Huge bluefin tuna fetches record price in Tokyo, but whale is left on the shelf 2011
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The attraction of bluefin tuna is still too great to resist, despite dangerously low global stocks; whalemeat, by contrast, lost its allure long ago.
Huge bluefin tuna fetches record price in Tokyo, but whale is left on the shelf 2011
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After all, I doubt somehow that the captains of industry like eating whalemeat so much as to risk losing billions of dollars of exports.
Australia: The New Commons Hero glyn moody 2008
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He's a free thinker - he's got the balls to get a product logo from one of the biggest multinational companies permanently sealed into his whalemeat.
Jesus wept 2007
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Apart from the babies that you mention here, the only thing that I found a bit gruesome was whalemeat, which I nibbled at to avoid insulting my host.
Japanese Snack Review: Tamagogani “Meisauki” | The Anime Blog 2006
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A Norwegian delegate said his country would ignore the ban and trade in whalemeat and blubber, provoking a rejoinder from the environmentalist group Greenpeace International that international opinion weighed heavily against a resumption of commercial whaling.
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Japan, which joined Norway in the push at the meeting for unregulated trade in whalemeat and blubber, has also expressed misgivings over the E.U. role in determining which proposals are accepted.
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With horror they suddenly realized that it was fresh whalemeat.
The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy Adams, Douglas 1996
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