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“Japan’s Fisheries Agency has allocated the equivalent of about $463 million to supporting whaling for the 2019 fiscal year.”

So the government is paying whalers to harvest an animal with fragile populations that people aren’t eating in the first place?  Looks like this emoji’s time has come once again:

Shinzō Abe is Captain Ahab confirmed.

Breaks my heart more than a little bit. I have… conflicting feelings about hunting in general, and though whales are my favourite animals in the universe, I can be convinced hunting them isn’t a total outrage, provided it’s regulated, sustainable and obviously doesn’t touch the species with waning populations, but greedy people be dicks and almost always take shit too far. So no. Don’t touch my whales, dudes!