I hate the Western eco-hypocrisy when it comes to whaling. Japan (and most of Scandinavia) have been whaling continuously for generations. Dolphin ‘farming’ fo

I hate the Western eco-hypocrisy when it comes to whaling. Japan (and most of Scandinavia) have been whaling continuously for generations. Dolphin ‘farming’ for hundreds of years without impacting yield or stocks. It’s a huge cultural activity and they protect it. But over the 1800-1900s the US, UK and Australia overfished whales at industrial scales making populations plummet. Whaling towns in Southern Australia literally ran red with rivers of blood. So in the 1970s and 80s after we’d reaped industrial benefit and destroyed wild stock, we Westerners decided that’s whaling was in fact really bad and decided to ban it - because we f’ed it up for everyone. There are arguments about cruelty during whale hunting, but the same can be said for all farming, but the hypocrisy that a group of people can come in decimate an animal population and then tell everyone not to participate in their culture just doesn’t sit right.