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VEGANGELICA · 06-15-2009, 11:11 AM

Hi, Toretorden,
Yikes, I don't want you to get any (or any more!) death threats! It is very sad that people who care about whales would threaten to kill people...as if it were okay to kill a human or even to scare one!

Thanks for asking me about my numbers, because it gave me a chance to doublecheck them and find you are right. I got my Minke whale information from Wikipedia on Norwegian whaling, and reading more carefully I saw it said that the number of Minke whales killed by Norwegians was 2000 whales per year *before* the moratorium, and now the quota is a little over 1000, and rarely do people in Norway kill that many whales. So, thanks for noticing my error.

You asked if it legal to kill polar bears in the U.S. Best I can tell, it is not legal to hunt and kill polar bears in the U.S., but it is legal in Canada, where people kill around 500 polar bears per year (Wikipedia).

--Erica

06-15-2009, 11:11 AM	#25 (permalink)
VEGANGELICA Facilitator Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Where people kill 30 million pigs per year Posts: 2,014	Hi, Toretorden, Yikes, I don't want you to get any (or any more!) death threats! It is very sad that people who care about whales would threaten to kill people...as if it were okay to kill a human or even to scare one! Thanks for asking me about my numbers, because it gave me a chance to doublecheck them and find you are right. I got my Minke whale information from Wikipedia on Norwegian whaling, and reading more carefully I saw it said that the number of Minke whales killed by Norwegians was 2000 whales per year before the moratorium, and now the quota is a little over 1000, and rarely do people in Norway kill that many whales. So, thanks for noticing my error. You asked if it legal to kill polar bears in the U.S. Best I can tell, it is not legal to hunt and kill polar bears in the U.S., but it is legal in Canada, where people kill around 500 polar bears per year (Wikipedia). --Erica