Just saw this BBC article about Japanese whaling. It mentions how Australia is trying to get Japan to stop hunting a lot of whales for “scientific research” as new methods don’t require it.

I don’t think they really get it, but are just playing the politics. The thing is, at not just one but two sushi places I went to in Tokyo (and I suspect more, as these were fairly random sushi places, not at all the “high scale” places you might expect) had kujira, or whale. And, well, it’s yummy. Yeah, I know, it’s very un-PC of me, but about a billion people in India think the entire beef industry is an insult to their religion, so let’s just leave that be.

The thing of it is, the Japanese like whale. So they hunt whale and eat the meat. If you want to stop the whaling, you have to convince people that it’s bad, which won’t happen. So, you end up doing something like legalizing it a bit, and jacking the price way up, so it becomes rare, not common.

But I doubt that will happen either. Some people like whale, some people like alligator. Just the way omnivores are, I guess.

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