American Voices

Whaling Ban Nearly Killed

June 20, 2006 | ISSUE 42•24

Led by strong opposition from Japan, the body that governs commercial whaling came close to overturning the 20-year-old ban on the practice. What do you think?

  • The need to whale is maybe the only part of Japan's weird, demented culture that I come close to understanding.

    Alex Billings
    Jeweler

  • Has anyone been monitoring the whales' songs? Has there been any change in them since this story broke?

    Laura Feinstein
    Production Assistant

  • It would serve those whales right for guzzling up half our krill.

    Ed Cambers
    Translator

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