It's just that this time Xiao Yu'er's reaction was completely different from before. There is no greed www.biquge.info the pen, the fun, and the pavilion. The sashimi on the plate on this food truck doesn't look like any other sashimi made of fish. However, Xiao Yu'er is very keenly aware of a peculiar taste.

Xiao Yu'er sank her face and asked, "What is this?"

Ishimura Yusheng said with a smile: "This Taoist friend may have eaten a lot of delicacies from the mountains and seas, but I don't think I have ever eaten this thing." This sashimi is made from whale meat, and it tastes similar to beef, but with the flavor of sea fish. Daoist friends can try it!"

In today's society, humanity has completed the conquest of all the continents of the world. Even in Antarctica, there are Chinese scientific expeditions interviewing and growing vegetables. At the same time, all species on Earth are also subservient to the feet of humans.

In the past, the tigers in the Xiaoao Mountain Forest can only sell cuteness in the Lion and Tiger Mountain of the zoo.

And with the development of nature by human beings, and the change of the environment. A large number of species, endangered. Whales are one of them! In the early days of man's conquest of the oceans, whales, a huge fish, became the object of hunting.

Hunting a whale and obtaining enough resources for a family to sustain for a long time. Whale meat can be eaten, leather can be used, whale oil can be used to make candles and soap, and even bones can be used to make various tools. This custom has always existed.

The history of whale hunting can be traced back to the Jomon period more than 8,000 years ago, and archaeologists have excavated a large number of whale bones and whale skins in the present-day Wakayama and Toyama regions.

By the eighth century A.D., there were official records of whaling in the history books of the Dongying people. The history of the Dongying people is not too long. Especially the recorded history. The record of whaling is almost as long as the history of the Dongying people.

By the time of the Nara and Kamakura periods, there were more and more records of whaling in the history books of the Toei people, and whales had become one of the common ingredients on the tables of the Toei people. In the Edo period, whale meat became a popular dish in Edo, Osaka and other places.

Originally, this was nothing, before mankind entered the industrial age, natural selection, and those who could go to sea to hunt whales were heroes. Xiao Yu'er has seen a lot of this kind of thing. Of course, human whaling itself is a very high risk. Before the industrial age, once a whaling failed, a whale knocked over the boat, or a person was pulled off the boat, or even dragged by a whale to a strange sea, it meant death.

However, after entering the industrial age, both human navigation technology and human weapons have made a huge leap compared with the past. At this time, human beings went out to sea to hunt whales, and it was a pure one-sided slaughter! Huge whales could not cope with larger, more stable steel ships.

Nor can it cope with gunpowder and a modified version of the whaling fork.

Therefore, after humans entered the industrial age, the number of whales in the ocean began to decline sharply. There are a few populations that are close to extinction. It was only after World War II that humans began to pay attention to protecting the environment, ecosystems and endangered creatures, that it was discovered that whales, which were originally regarded by humans as a source of industrial raw materials and a symbol of wealth, were almost extinct.

As a result, many bans have been enacted in human society to protect endangered creatures such as whales. It is strictly forbidden to indiscriminately hunt and kill. As a blue whale that has been roaming the sea for hundreds of years, Xiao Yu'er has naturally experienced this battle between humans and whales.

Hunted by humans, and capsized human ships. It's just that this kind of fight is finally normal. The victor gets to survive, and always should. However, after the navigation and hunting skills of human beings reached a certain height, the small fish could no longer shelter a large number of whales without revealing their cultivation and not alarming the entire human society.

And for ordinary whales who have no cultivation in their bodies, this whaling action of humans is simply a massacre!

The little fish did not have any resentment towards humans themselves, after all, if humans were willing, they could have completely wiped out the whale. And the ban of human beings can be regarded as protecting the last trace of whale blood.

However, Xiao Yu'er hated those who still secretly slaughtered whales after the ban ended. However, after mankind jointly abides by international conventions and stops hunting whales, there is one country that still insists on killing whales. That's Dongying!

In the concept of the Dongying people, whether it is a whale or a dolphin, it is just one type of food. The hunting and killing of this sea creature is also called a cultural tradition by the Dongying people.

According to the Whaling Association of the Toei people, "whaling is an integral part of Toei's history and culture, and the prohibition of commercial whaling is plundering an important part of Toei's culture and tradition." And the person in charge of the Dongying Whale Museum even claimed that whaling is not a profession, but pride and history.

According to a survey of Dongying people, in addition to 10% of Dongying people who are reluctant to comment, nearly 60% of Dongying people believe that eating whale meat is closely related to Dongying's food culture and should be retained.

Therefore, the price of whale meat in Toying is only slightly more expensive than beef. There are many types of dishes related to whale meat. The whale sashimi that Ishimura Yusheng gave to the little fish is just the most common one.

It is precisely because of these "traditions" and needs that Dongying will hunt whales on a large scale. In a recent Antarctic ocean hunt, Dongying's whaling ship killed more than 300 whales, and 200 of them were pregnant female whales. In addition, there are plans to kill another 4,000 minke whales in the next few years.

Although as early as 1986, Dongying, as one of the signatories of the International Whaling Commission, has been banned from whaling. However, the Dongying people unilaterally ignored this request, and instead continued to cross the line by taking advantage of the loopholes in the ban. For a long time, Dongying has been trying to prove that the whale population is sufficient to support regular commercial hunting, saying that the animals are killed to better study mammals.

This time, the Dongying fishery department also explained in a statement that the purpose of the whaling was to study the number of minke whales in the Antarctic region and to explore the best measures to control their numbers within a reasonable range. I don't know who gave the Dongying people the power to control the number of minke whales, let alone what the reasonable range is.

Ishimura Yuo has been eating whale meat since he was a child. Serving whale meat to a small fish is considered a grand act.