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LA sushi restaurant The Hump ‘serves whale meat’

The team who made The Cove, a film about Japanese dolphin hunting which won best documentary at this weekend”s Academy Awards, employed its covert camera techniques on a visit to The Hump in Santa Monica, one of California”s most highly-regarded sushi restaurants.

Whale meat, or kujira, is often available in Japanese fish markets but is illegal in America, and the documentary team”s investigation was conducted in conjunction with law enforcement officials who later raided the restaurant… Read Full Article by Tom Leonard

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