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Kill a whale, save 1,000 chickens!
The answer is clear, whaling saves lives.
Seriously though, Japan is absolutely whaling, but they are 100% serious about finding a way to keep whaling long-term. It doesn't do them any good to exterminate the whales completely.
Also, that drop in whaling was voluntary due to anti-whaling agreements and not by population pressure...at least not directly, there were still plenty of whales waiting to end up on dinner plates which Japan could have been harvested to extinction had Japan not backed off.
Thirdly, I really don't care whether they are using a 'loophole' or not, the fact is the words in the anti-whaling agreements clearly allow that behavior. Japan is not breaking the law, regardless of whether they are 'researching' in order to sell the meat.
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