[Columbine]

It's not so much the killing of whales that bothers me so much as the false reasoning for it. I mean, it's blatantly not for science- not when right after that big push for an expedition went through last year and a few weeks later it 'magically' started turning up on my supermarket shelf.**

Ok, "it's traditional" and "It's our culture" and so on is fine, I like to see native cultures still live and kicking, but traditionally they weren't using honking great ships and radar to kill literally thousands of whales. If they want to hunt whales in traditional ships, that's fine- they'd pull in less and it would still be a live tradition but as it is, it's just widespread commercial slaughter and that I think has to stop.

I ate it once. Bought some by accident when it turned up out of the blue in Top World and I thought it was marinaded fish. It... wasn't great. Nauseating actually. Maybe it was old or I cooked it wrong but it had the consistency of liver and a similar offal-like, yet kind of fishy taste. Certainly nothing I would ever eat again.