From the article,
"The latest figures show that of 333 minke Antarctic whales killed last summer, 181 were females. Some 122 females, or 67 per cent, were pregnant.
The hunt killed 61 immature males and 53 immature females – 114 in total."
Have no idea how many estimated Minke Whales there are in the oceans, but that is a lot of pregnant whales being harvested in a single year.
I find Japans science research statement claims to be hollow, it has the smell of trying to legitimize the scale of harvesting them for food.
Of course it's hollow, but it's the loophole they are allowed to harvest whales for consumption.
Their culture finds nothing wrong with it, so who are we to judge?
Yeah- that was kind of the point of the dog eating thing. I understand people who object to those who eat dogs or horses or whales or whatever- they relate on some level to those animals.
But on a moral and biological level there is no difference.