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As I unerstand it, there is only the Japanese and the Norwegians who still try and keep up the transparent pretense and shoddy veneer that there is any 'scientific' merit in hunting and killing whales - there is nothing of the sort. If the Japs can reduce transitors down to the size of fitting 500 of the buggers onto the size of a pin-head (and growing the damned things from scratch in silicon), then what ever it is they are looking for in killing whales can be achieved in/by other means - and those which don't necessitate the wholesale and industrial-scale butchery of a living thing. Senseless slaughter of, in the words of Jon Andersson, "our last heaven beast..." (From Yes's song "Don't Kill the Whale", I think from their album 'Tormato').
The Japs' Kharma will come back to haunt them and, if the Norwegians can stop committing suicide in droves for five minutes (something to do with the large number of hours of darkness), then they will understand that there is more to be learnt from studying live 'specimens' than the butchered carcass of an amazing creature.
Shame on them, and I am far from being a tree-hugger.
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