What does domestication or farming have to do with anything.
Whaling is a highly regulated industry in Japan, they have no interest in hunting animals to extinction.
"Each year, 62 Baird's beaked whales are hunted commercially in Japan, with the meat sold for human consumption."
> What does domestication or farming have to do with anything.
Pretty much everything? You can't really dismiss the parent with: "Naw. I'd rather argue against something you didn't claim". I also hold the impression that the bigger concern with Whales is a question of hunting them to extinction, not a matter of relative intelligence.
Fortunately, you do actually end up addressing it anyway; I have no idea if 30,000 is a lot, but if it can really be sustainable fine, eat em.
But that just reenforces the idea that a domesticated, farmed population would remove most non-vegan people's concerns.
Whaling is a highly regulated industry in Japan, they have no interest in hunting animals to extinction. "Each year, 62 Baird's beaked whales are hunted commercially in Japan, with the meat sold for human consumption."
"Estimates for Baird's are of the order of 30,000 individuals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_beaked_whale
More interesting, the meat contains high levels of mercury and PCBs. Just lost my interest in eating it...