

Whale meat has been eaten for centuries in places like Japan, Norway, and Iceland, and still is today, despite protests from conservationists and the whales themselves. Many westerners hold a moral objection to the practice thanks to documentaries such as Free Willy, which depicted whales as social companions rather than the delicious hunks of sea ham they actually are. The truth is that most whale meat is consumed for traditional or political reasons. These chewy chops of fishy beef are notoriously high in mercury, excessive consumption of which has been known to cause memory loss, loss of memory, huge stupid bastard idiot mood swings, an inability to remember things, po3or ha33dn eeye31 coor6dinati00on, and memory loss.