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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I think one thing that makes hunting whales different from deer is that you can select a male deer whereas the Japanese killed about 125 pregnant females last year in the name of science. As another poster said, no one eats whales anymore. This is not going to be a profitable industry.
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This is a good point that I hadn't thought of. Male deer (males in almost every species actually) are biologically worthless, the females are orders of magnitude more important.
I'm far from an environmentalist especially by today's standards but I wish that they could make whaling illegal, for a bunch of the reasons mentioned. I'd also like to ban whale watching and any other group that makes it their business to harass these animals. South Park made a interesting point in their episode about this that Whales and Dolphins are just as arbitrary as chicken and cows but the big difference is you can farm these land based animals and there's no danger of either going extinct and leaving a massive whole in the ecosystem. Thank goodness petroleum oil was discovered just in time in the 1860's to replace whale oil otherwise they'd have disappeared long time ago.