Mink whaling is more responsible and sustainable than a lot of commercial fishing - compare the impacts of hunting a species that's classified as "least concern" with deep-sea trawling, the hunting of certain endangered species of tuna, or the use of the eggs and/or young spawn of endangered fish as caviar or whitebait!

Whaling definitely needs to go but (non-Antarctic) whaling gets an oversized amount of attention and it's not unusual for people who are opposed to it to be financially supporting even more destructive forms of kaimoana.

[–] stewie3128@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Simply being "not as bad" does not make it "good."

This is just providing masculine jobs for guys who won't do anything else, while enriching the terrible people who employ them. There's no use to whaling.

[–] cnnrduncan@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I very intentionally did not say that whaling is good, because it's not. However, I believe that it is hypocritical to call for the banning of Icelandic whaling without also applying the same zeal to banning other forms of harmful commercial seafood, and that whaling is somewhat used to distract from the harms of more "normal" seafood.

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Or just standard livestock farming. I personally think that if people want to eat meat they should have to kill the first animal they eat in order to get a licence to eat meat.

[–] Colour_me_triggered@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Actually, Norway and Iceland have good gender equality. I'm pretty sure a lot of the whalers are women.

[–] Hankaaron@yall.theatl.social 1 points 1 year ago

Source?