The High North Alliance, the umbrella organisation for seafaring hunters of the North Atlantic, is situated in the fishing village of Reine, just north of the Arctic Circle. Here people eat whale meat as steaks, stew, meatballs and pizza.
Whale meat is everyday food.
They don't eat it all the time, of course. They also have lamb and beef, and more than anything they eat fish - four days a week. So being told that our high north diet makes us murderers is hard to swallow. But it hasn't been possible to trivialise the campaigns against whaling and sealing. Their objective has been to destroy markets for the products of the hunts - and this has to some extent been successful.