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Ozkai,
Whales are intelligent as well as cows, pigs or kangaroos.

Ronin4hire,
Anti-whaling countries are very ones exploiting a loophole.
IWC was set in order to enforce international agreement "International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling", that aims beneficial use of whale resources.
This agreement is not for natural conservation, and IWC is not a committee of natural conservation.
Anti-whaling countries must leave IWC but they stay and hinder logical discussion.
I quote one article from "Hiraganatimes".
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The IWC's scientific committee said that there was no problem in resuming commercial whaling within a catch quota of several thousand minke whales per year.
But the IWC paid no attention to this scientific evidence and rejected the request to resume whaling.
In 1993, the chairman of the scientific committee resigned saying, "I can't remain in this organization because they neglected the management scheme to which we have spent our precious time."
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These facts mean Anti-whaling is neither scientific nor world consensus.

Japan is not western country, one special exception that stay in advanced countries in the world under western hegemony.
(I can refer many example about it but don't.)

You call pro-whaling people "Lobbyist", then I call anti-whaling people "Lobbyist".
I cannot trust anti-whaling "Lobbyist".