[chessplayer]

“Nonsense. It is in their culture.”

I stand corrected. Japans pushing whales to extinction for cultural purposes did`nt wash, so now they have changed tactics and claim they need to hunt them for “scientific purposes.”

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Japan_to_hunt_950_whales_for_%22scientific_research%22

[spunkets]

"Japans pushing whales to extinction for cultural purposes did`nt wash, so now they have changed tactics and claim they need to hunt them for “scientific purposes."

Nah. It's both.