Lex T <trumbauer28@zonnet.nl> wrote:

> Jan Bojer Vindheim wrote:
 
> > Actually Norwegian whaling  is dependenet on government subsidies,
> > since young people dont like whalemeat
> > and many older people have traumatic memories of whalemeat dinners in
> > their youth
> 
> But I remember it from the menu-cards on the Lofoten-Ferry, and this 
> market. So some people do eat it. And why is it  subsidized?
 
Some people like it of course,
but most people eat it  ( or at elast want it on the menu)
for  political reasons.
Whaling is seen by many as an affirmation ofNorwegian culture and
independence.

So even if it  makes no economic sense
the government has to support it.