The biggest difference to me with hunting deer/sheep etc meat to whale meat...is there is a damn sight more of the former than the latter.

Whales take so long to reach sexual maturity and look after the calf for a very long time before they have another. They have no hope of surviving extinction if they are taken in commercial quanties, they are suffering now with just so called 'scientific' research.

If they could procreate at the same rate as other animals used commercially for food, then it would not be such an issue. But they cant...that is a fact. If they did there would be whale farms out there making the most of their commercial value!

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