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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chickens aren't at risk of extinction due to human consumption.

We don't have whale ranches.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't believe Minke whales are endangered either.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They aren't. "Least concern"

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

Which would be great if they were hunting Minke whales, but they're hunting fin whales, which are endangered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@Numberone @chiliedogg They probably will be soon now...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Billions of living things forced to experience short brutal painful existences inside of concentration camps

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Farming livestock is industrialised animal cruelty. Animals are kept in squalid conditions. Whales have a good life followed by a quick death (unless it dies in the Faroe Islands). Dynamite tipped harpoon will get the job done right.