> Please keep in mind, Japanese consider cetaceans just another fish. They simply don't understand all the anti-whaling rhetoric. I am a Japanese (so sorry for

> Please keep in mind, Japanese consider cetaceans just another fish. They simply don't understand all the anti-whaling rhetoric. I am a Japanese (so sorry for bad English) and I think this is true. It does NOT mean we don't understand whales are mammals. We all understand that fishes and mammals are taxonomically very different. We eat many kinds of animals underwater like fishes, shellfishes, crustacean, eels, octopuses, etc. Whales are one of them. We should not eat whales because whales are intelligent? There are many evidence that octopuses have very high intelligence. Because whales are mammals and humans are mammals? We (including non-Japanese) eat pigs and cattles, which are mammals. Additionally, this is my personal opinion, I think "the animals which have higher intelligence should not be eaten" is not a common sense in Japan. Intelligence is not a only value of creatures.