Pete,

people pay a lot of money to see alligator wrestling. How humane is that (especially since the wrestler never loses)?

Is sport fishing humane (see above post about fishing)? How about commercial tuna netting?

Back to the whaling example, is there any particular need to harvest the whales? I haven't read the article. Is it used for meat, or whale population control? At least those have humanitarian purposes.

So, from the discussion so far, perhaps the most efficient and humane method for this 'harvest' is to corral the whales similar to how they are doing it in the pictures, and then "bang-stick" the whales with grenade harpoons suited for their size to instantly kill them individually?

And I like sushi, too. Which is why no one ever takes me fishing anymore...