Why hunt if it's not necessary? Japan has a bad reason

The chairman of a Japanese whaling association was quoted recently as Japan was lifting its 30-year ban on commercial whaling.

"I'm so moved, my heart is shaking," Yoshifumi Kai said on July 1, as hunting ships headed out to sea on their mission of death.

His was not the only heart that was shaking. Mine was shaking, too, but for different reasons. I fear for the endangered species of the world - for the great giants of our planet, the elephants and whales, and for any creature great or small that is the victim of thoughtless human depredation or greed.