Are you saying that there are people in japan who are subsistence living off of only whale blubber? Because if so, I’m gonna need a citation there.

The issue is that whales exist on a scale that doesn’t match up well to our assumptions about what is “sustainable,” and that’s not even getting into the influence whaling countries have on the international bodies that determine what is or isn’t “least concern.” These are enormous creatures that have very low birth…

This is fair, so long as they also allow the US to do scientific torpedo research on Japanese whaling ships. We can even promise to submit a peer reviewed paper.