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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is no such thing as sustainable or responsible whaling.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Mink whaling is more responsible and sustainable than a lot of commercial fishing - compare the impacts of hunting a species that's classified as "least concern" with deep-sea trawling, the hunting of certain endangered species of tuna, or the use of the eggs and/or young spawn of endangered fish as caviar or whitebait!

    Whaling definitely needs to go but (non-Antarctic) whaling gets an oversized amount of attention and it's not unusual for people who are opposed to it to be financially supporting even more destructive forms of kaimoana.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Simply being "not as bad" does not make it "good."

    This is just providing masculine jobs for guys who won't do anything else, while enriching the terrible people who employ them. There's no use to whaling.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I very intentionally did not say that whaling is good, because it's not. However, I believe that it is hypocritical to call for the banning of Icelandic whaling without also applying the same zeal to banning other forms of harmful commercial seafood, and that whaling is somewhat used to distract from the harms of more "normal" seafood.

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