After the tractor has torn the blubber in long strips off the side of the whale, the locals then cut the meat off in chunks, hacking through the spine, throwing it onto a waiting lorry. The lorry takes the meat to the Lenin State fur farm at Lorino where it is unloaded. Inside in the fodder kitchen, the Chukchi workers throw the meat and bones from walrus and whale into a giant mixer which grinds it into a smooth, reddish pulp that is then mixed with fish and grain and fed to the foxes in their small wire-mesh cages. They use no blubber, as it is too rich for the foxes to digest. The farm s meat store, with its broken-down refrigeration system, housed piles of decaying whale meat, ribs and backbones.
Some people say whaling by industrial countries is wrong.
Russia and the U.S. are the most industrialized countries in the world, and here they will whale. I would like to stress that small-type operations should be separated from the larger ones. Despite all this, I express my support for the U.S.-Russian proposal. But I must add that fox farms are much better than producing synthetic fur, since fox farms are environmentally friendly and a renewable resource. K. Shima, Commissioner, Japan.