Lethal injection?

If only Seattle could have had a knee-jerk negative response to boring the largest tunnel in history. Or ripping out every interesting building in town and putting up a Quiznos, a tanning parlor and a nail salon with 5 stories of apartments on top.

Maybe it's not change that Seattle fears so much. Maybe Seattle is run by money.

You. Do. Not.

Two things here. One, how do you know whales are not killed humanely? Two, if whaling can be made sustainable and is still culturally important for some cultures, then why should they stop? Why impose your values on them?

Yeah, I'm all for eating whales as long as it's sustainable and humane. Although I admit I hadn't really thought about the logistics of humanely killing a very large animal before. You would probably need a scaled-up version of the captive bolts they use on cattle.

Iceland's annual harvest 169 whales makes a biannual hunt of a single whale by the Makah seem pretty sensible in comparison.

@2 HRYK

Sounds like a conflict between anti-imperial interests and environmental interests, that will inevitably be won by the latter.

Meat eaters have no business judging this when they accept obviously inhumane factory farming.

@9 Omnivores can't judge whalers by calling them inhumane because of the way they kill the whale, but domesticated animals are in no danger of going extinct anytime soon. So we can vocally disapprove of the act of hunting whales in the first place.

@10 The type of whales that are hunted in Japan and Iceland are not in danger of going extinct.

@11, the story says exactly the opposite in like, the first quoted sentence.