How can I be upset about Japan hunting whales?

Whales are endangered. If whale hunting is stopped, there won't be any more whales left to hunt. Harp seals, on the other hand, are still plentiful. The population needs to be controlled until the cod stocks recover, because cod are their main source of food. There's no point in even talking about restricting the seal hunt until the cod recover well enough to survive being eating by the seals! It's not the seals' fault the cod are endangered, but if the cod go extinct the seals will too, once their food is gone.

I am inbetween, on the whale thing... i hate the fact that they are being killed, but then again i think that if they wernt "hunted" we would have an over population . that really goes for any wild animals. i never knew about the baby seals being killed for their furr in canada. what doesnt makes since to me is. wouldnt a full grown seal have more furr then a baby?. just my thoughts.. I am not ashamed of my country..but i am ashamed of our president. he was good at first but now he is doing some crazy crazy things. like he turned down a bill that would have provided medical treatment to like 30,000 kids whos parents cant afford to take them to the dr.. this is why we have children dying everyday... But no i cannot say that i am ashamed of my country.. just some people who live and breed in our country.

yes I know what you mean it breaks my heart to see any animal slaughtered I complain about the killing of the whales also and the killing of the baby seals but I am also angry that they slaught kangaroo's here in Australia, it wasn't so long ago here in Australia they were going to cull koalas one man had alread done a deal on preparing them for human consumption, why do humans think they have the sole rights to this world, animals have rights too but people are so cruel, they cause pain and suffering to poor animals that just want to live ... they are not the ones that have stuffed up this world it the human race that has taken and taken without giving and still we kill and slaughter the beautiful creatures of this wortld, I think we should all feel the shame for letting this happen, and god bless those few people who have the courage and the willingness to fight to try and stop these cruel people...

My country India is a hodge-podge of beliefs and practices and we really don’t know what or whom to support or condemn. Being a non-veg myself, I cant really speak out against animal slaughter in any form while the veggies of my country would like animal slaughter to be banned altogether. But Canada or Japan or whatever country be it, I have seen whale-hunting in National Geographic once and it really really made me want to puke. I was so sick with the very process and the combined sights and sounds of man, the huge mammal and the vast ocean made my head reel. I haven’t seen seal hunting but after the whale programme, I make it a point to avoid watching such episodes. And it really made me ashamed to be part of that humanity which has progressed so much on so many fronts and would like to be called civilized, yet continues killing other animals to this day in such barbarian and greedy manner.

If Japan were really serious about harvesting whales, they would set up their whaling crews outside all the southern walmarts.

it is shame to hunt the whales, everybody should have a mind to protect the rare anmimal. The animal is very important to keep the nature balance. If only human in the earth, Do you feel lonely?

Same here, my country is still killing off a lot of its endangered species, so to get made at Japan for doing this would just be silly. Sooner or later, these people will soon realize that if they hunt these animals, they are going to lose more than they will gain.

I am from the Philippines, we have lots of problems in controlling illegal logging and other abuses in mother nature. We even have the worst marine livelihood problem right now, the fish pens are now infected by janitor fishes. These are considered pests, since they don't have any use to us. They multiply rapidly and grows very huge, as fresh-water marine life are out-numbered and those who depends on it are losing money. I guess we all have different problems in our own turf, we just have to focus more in it before looking outside our windows..

I didn't know Japan hunted whales. I knew Canada still kills baby seals, though. Both are horrible. I wish both countries would stop doing that.

I don't like it or believe in killing poor defenseless creatures. They should not hunt them, why go killing off these adorable creatures. The real beast here is the humans that are doing the killing. Why are we not using our mind and physical abilities to make this world better rather than do stuff like that. I hate to hear stories like that.