[Teacher317]

Cultural imperialist! The Japanese culture is different, and their small island accounts for something like 12% of all seafood eaten in the world. Whale meat is a part of that, and has been for hundreds of years. Amazing how you think it's okay to impose your values on entire cultures... and justify it with unsubstantiated fear-mongering about denuded oceans. (Look at lobster prices: lower than they've been in years. Hint: lower supply does not equal lower prices. The oceans are doing fine, despite what the liberal lobby tells you... while they make a profit on that fakery.)

Whaling is a shadow of its former self, and less than 1% of the whale population is ever taken in a single year... and yet you call that "denuding".

There's a reason that intelligent people ignore that kind of screed. It's useless, baseless, emotion-based, and just plain silly.

[Chainmail]

I have to admit that you made my day! I've never been called a "Cultural Imperialist".

Thanks!

Meanwhile, was it OK to get the native populations in New Guinea and elsewhere to stop eating each other - or would that be further evidence of cultural imperialism?

[golux]

I bet you dollars to doughnuts you’ve never even stepped on a commercial fishing boat of any kind for more than ten minutes.