Whaling was the oil business of its day.
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Whales are killed today to supply the limited demand for whale meat or to be used in pet foods or as fodder for fur-bearing animals used in the fur trade.
Does Greenpeace think it can stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly eating whale meat and declaring it delicious? What are these people thinking?
Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
There are a number of things everyone can do to help protect whales.
Ships are expendable; the whales are not.
The only language that the Japanese whaling industry understands is economics.
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Oil is ancient wealth in the ground.
I would probably have more in common with a whale than with a bourgeois married couple employed at worthy institutions that I would wipe from the face of the earth if it was given to me to do so.
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