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Iceland allows whaling to resume in ‘massive step backwards’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by NightOwl@lemm.ee to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

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[-] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 15 points 10 months ago

It takes a lot less time to grow a new cow than it does to grow a new whale.

[-] PowerCrazy@lemmy.ml -2 points 10 months ago

Sure and that is taken into account with the sustainability. While you can harvest something like a billion cows a year plus cows are domesticated the same concept applies to whale but it may be only a few thousand a year.

[-] LemmyAtem@beehaw.org 13 points 10 months ago

Ah yes "sustainability". Whaling is such a sustainable industry that basically every civilized nation has banned it. That's okay though, we've proven that we're really good at farming and fishing sustainably, so I'm sure we'll be just as good at whaling. We definitely aren't fishing the oceans to extinction, or releasing millions of tons of methane from factory cattle farming.

Oh wait...