Is killing of whales particularly cruel?
I don’t think so. When I imagine the life of beef cattles, which cannot enjoy free activity, whose meals are determined not based on their taste but on humans’ convenience, and which are killed eventually without exception, it reminds me of life at concentration camp. On the contrary, whales can enjoy free life and only a few percent of them can be killed by hunt annually, if the species is allowed to be the subject of hunting. For a person like me who do not regard whales as special animal, whaling is nothing but an ordinary fishery or hunting which is done in many countries including anti-whaling nations. Some people argue that it takes time for killing, but still the time is not particularly longer than the case of hunting of land animals (this must be the reason why anti-whaling nations disagree at IWC to compare killing time at whaling with that of land animal hunting), which is also done in many anti-whaling nations, and time landed fish suffer until death. Have animal rights gro
