Scientific? What a joke, Japan cannot understand just how much the world hates it right now. The world's media paints it as a murderer, the world's citizens see it as a coward. How dare Japan try to compare the slaughter of these majestic animals to farmed cows. If this were the case, whales would be farmed in pens -- not hunted in the sea. Japan has a long history of picking on those who have trouble defending themselves.
shawn belgrade
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