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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure and that is taken into account with the sustainability. While you can harvest something like a billion cows a year plus cows are domesticated the same concept applies to whale but it may be only a few thousand a year.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes "sustainability". Whaling is such a sustainable industry that basically every civilized nation has banned it. That's okay though, we've proven that we're really good at farming and fishing sustainably, so I'm sure we'll be just as good at whaling. We definitely aren't fishing the oceans to extinction, or releasing millions of tons of methane from factory cattle farming.

Oh wait...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Whaling is such a sustainable industry that basically every civilized nation has banned it.

Since when exactly are unsustainable industries banned?