If killing animals for food is immoral at all, then whale meat is one of the least immoral forms of meat consumption there is. The reason is, you get a huge amo

If killing animals for food is immoral at all, then whale meat is one of the least immoral forms of meat consumption there is. The reason is, you get a huge amount of meat per animal, and their lives are much better than those of livestock. Maybe better than minke whale is venison, since we need to cull the deer population anyway -- might as well eat it. Or maybe all hunting, moderated to prevent overhunting to extinction, is equally sound, because the animals would otherwise overpopulate and starve to death or get killed by some other predator. It might depend on whether there's some other predator in the food chain.