Saving the Whales

Call me flummoxed. We've been saving the whales for so many years that I thought they were saved. But, noooo! Apparently, more saving is needed and Wal-Mart is being targeted to make it happen. According to this story, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and Greenpeace are calling on Wal-Mart to influence the Japanese grocer Seiyu to not sell whale meat and stop the Japanese public from eating it.

Since the Japanese have been hunting whales and eating whale meat for hundreds, maybe thousands, of years, it's probably unrealistic to expect an American retailer to have any substantive impact.