Whale meat obtained by Greenpeace in Japan during an investigation into large-scale theft of meat from the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling programme. A four month investigation by Greenpeace exposed claims by current and former crew that not only was thousands of dollars worth of meat stolen each year, but officials from the government's Institute of Cetacean Research and the fleet operators Kyodo Senpaku, knew about the embezzlement but ignore it, even though it is the Japanese tax payer who funds the expeditions.