[LINK] "The Japanese Barely Eat Whale. So Why Do They Keep Whaling?"

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Wired's Sarah Zhang notes why the Japanese continue to hunt whales, in the face of international criticism and their own disinterest in actually eating the meat.

When Japan this week resumed hunting minke whales in defiance of an international moratorium, the country found itself now on the other side of the Americans-and Australians, and New

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“The strong condemnation of whaling by the foreigners is taken as harassing the traditional values,” says (Kazuhiko) Kobayashi.

"Traditional values."

There's a lot of "traditional values" elsewhere across this planet, including a few here in our own backyards, that deserve a vampire-staking.