Hump Sushi (Santa Monica)

[dfunghi]

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/us/09sushi.html?hp

"Video of their meal shows the two activists, both vegan, being served what the waitress can be heard calling “whale” — thick pink slices — that they take squeamish bites of before tossing into a Ziploc bag in a purse.

The samples were sent to Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University. Professor Baker said DNA testing there revealed that the samples sent to him were from a Sei whale, which are found worldwide and are endangered but are sometimes hunted in the North Pacific under a controversial Japanese scientific program. “I’ve been doing this for years,” Professor Baker said. “I was pretty shocked.”

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[andiesenji]

I'm shocked that it is in Santa Monica. Wait till Hayden Panettiere and Pierce Brosnan get wind of this.