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Meat is murder. Tasty tasty murder.

The demand and greed of people cause most of the problems in society.
Be it wanting to eat some species of animal already on the brink of
extinction or something as insidious as child porn...there's a sick
market and those who will break the law to provide for it.

Other than some variety of whales being endangered, how is this
"barbaric"? A whale is a mammal, but we eat mammals all the time --
cows, pigs, even dogs, horses, bunnies, squirrel, not to mention game
such as deer, elk, moose, etc.

Pigs are among the smartest vertebrates on earth (potentially third,
after primates and dolphins), so it's quite barbaric that we eat
them.

If only bacon weren't so tasty.

But wait? the customer is always right! if the customer demanded whale
we must provide it!!

As a cook/chef/culinary proffesional I can see the intrigue of
offering strange and exotic eats. Just learing to cook with a new
item is intriguing. However if its banned in the US then its banned.
Dont like it goto Japan, Iceland, or go open up a whale cookery in
Canada or Alaska (its allowed there for the indiginous folks to use
for sustanace).

I agree. In fact, I'd like to see everyone who had a role in this to
be prosecuted.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/15/california.whale.meat.apology/?hpt
=T2

in the latest incident evidently, upon the diner's request, went out
to his personal car to get the whale meat.

I find this particularly disturbing. I wonder if he also keeps the
ingredients for Bananas Foster under the seat.

It is too bad they can't keep chef Yamamoto from preparing food as
part of the sentence.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/03/15/california.whale.meat.apology/?hpt
=T2