Australia to try to close Japanese whaling loophole

The Aussies plan to ask the International Whaling Commission to end “scientific” whaling, the loophole used by Japan to let its whalers haul a thousand or so cetaceans each year under the guise of “research.”

(Tokyo doesn’t talk about whether or not it does research on how to improve whale meat when used as dog food. So few younger Japanese eat whale meat that, indeed, not all the catch’s meat is eaten by humans.)