Title

Cultural Whaling, Commodification, And Culture Change

Abstract

Whaling is back on the international stage as pro-whaling interests push to reopen commercial whaling by overturning the moratorium imposed in 1986. Proponents of ending the ban are using two strategies: (1) appealing to public sentiment that supports indigenous subsistence whaling by attempting to cloak commercial whaling in the same guise and (2) maintaining that reopening commercial whaling is the "scientific" option. I reject both ploys, and instead shift the focus for global debate to scrutinizing the industrial economic model that Western culture is currently imposing on the rest of the world, a model which ultimately reduces all life forms to mere commodities for the marketplace.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

Environmental Ethics

Volume

23

Issue

3

Number of Pages

287-306

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics200123317

Socpus ID

0005027154 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0005027154

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