[pixelbill]

They have a HUGE bias, I doubt anything coming out of them is the actual truth.

There are around 500,000 minke whales (the type they hunt) in the Antarctic, Japanese whaling kills approximately 300 whales per year.

Please explain to me why you think this is such an issue?

[JohnGB]

There are 8 billion humans. So we should be allowed to hunt a few hundred thousand a year without anyone having a problem with it.

The problem isn't primarily about the numbers of minke whales. It's that they are hunting what many people consider a sentient species, in an inhuman way. In most parts of the world, you aren't allowed to slaughter an animal (at least in theory) in a way that causes pain or distress. With whales there is no reasonable way of doing this due to their size.

[sedachv]

A good introduction to the moral problems of animal slaughter is Charles Patterson's Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.