Argumentative Essay: Is Whaling Justified?

I’ve always hear about the controversy of whaling still going on the news, but usually about Japan doing it for scientific research. I’m surprised to learn that Norway does it also, but openly defying the ban by having it done commercially. Is something wrong if most of the world agree is wrong, or is it justified because it is a tradition? Can science justified if something is wrong or good? Does the world has right to tell a country that what they’re doing is wrong and can they force it to stop? These are difficult and complex answer, especially when it is being applied to whaling.
I truly disagree with Japan and Norway using cultural exception as a reason to justify their continuation for whaling. When most of their population are starting to lose an appetite for it and even more controversial is that 113 metric tons of Minke whale meat was sold to an animal feed manufacturer in 2014 (Bale R., 2016). If the consumption is going down, doesn’t that mean that it is not an essential tradition, and having shown that they had to waste so much as to resorting to use it as animal feed definitely seals the pointlessness of this cultural exception claim.
Even though I disagree with whaling and the use of cultural exception to justify it continuing, I do agree that the whaling ban is a violation of a nation’s …show more content…
All we can do it to convince the majority of the people in the respective countries themselves that whaling is wrong and demand their government to comply with the whaling ban, because if the countries government refuses to even recognize the ban or ignores it, there is nothing else that can be done to stop them. I’m sure that we already seeing some it with the reduction in demand in the countries themselves for whale meat, and when there is no demand there will be no more need for supply