Japan does not want us to lecture them on whaling as it apart of their culture, that cultural practices are worth preserving, regardless of the great cost to the environment. I believe that whaling should not continue no matter whose culture it is a part of. Whaling is a detective way to resource food and it should not be continued.
Mr Hayshi”, the now minister of whaling programs in Japan has been stated for saying such things as “criticising whaling is a cultural attack, a kind of prejudice against Japanese culture.” He then continued on with how Japan has a long and historical tradition of whaling and that Japan is an island nation surrounded by sea, so taking some good protein form the ocean is very important. This is where Japan and Mr Hayshi is wrong.
Mr Hayshi is wrong in the sense that what japan is doing is right for them and their culture, in contrast some say agree with Mr Hayshi about how it is a cultural right, granted that most cultures that used to whale did so in small tribes taking one to two whales a year not like how Japan continues to whale in the present day, taking up to 1,000 whales a year compared to one or two.
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In Australia they eat kangaroos. We don't eat those animals, but we don't stop them from doing that because we understand that's their culture.” However, whales are not in such abundance as they used to be through that major numbers whales are killed off in the present day. Dogs and Kangaroos on the other hand are seen as a pest as they are in such great numbers that they can be breed for their resources yet, Japan does not breed whales and in doing so they continue the eminent extinction of