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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Would You Like One Hump or Two?

Hump as in Humpback Whale:
Federal authorities have charged a trendy Santa Monica sushi restaurant with serving whale meat -- an investigation that was spurred by the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove."

Prosecutors charged Typhoon Restaurant Inc., the parent company of The Hump, and one of its chefs -- Kiyoshiro Yamamoto, 45 -- with the illegal sale of a marine mammal product for an unauthorized purpose.

While it is considered a delicacy in Japan and some other countries, meat from whale -- an endangered species -- is illegal to consume in the United States.

It wasn't Humpback they were serving, but Sei whale. If you've every watched Whale Wars you'll see how the Japanese get their supplies of exotic whale meat.

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