What can be done
The reason behind butchering these animals for food product befuddles me, its the same as Shark fin soup. IMO to hide behind the culture excuse is redundant and ignorant. Culture isn't set in stone, its something that is always changing and to say well its my culture to kill rare endangered species conflicts highly with my own values.
Killing a whale and killing a chicken are completely different acts, chickens on this planet out number humans, whales on the other hand absolutely do not. (Current whale population estimates -http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm). The hardest part about it is that its almost impossible to change other cultures due to culture gaps. Even if every single Canadian decided not to eat whale, when that whale enters international waters to hunt it doesn't matter because some Japanese, Swedish or other countries boat can chug along and fire high explosive harpoons at the poor things. Talk about a crummy life for such elegant and harmless animals (Besides all of those fish that they are taking away from the Japanese, because humans now "own everything on this planet")
Levi
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