There is nothing derived from a whale that cannot be produced synthetically. Maybe I’m hypocritical somehow about this issue, but it bothers me tremendously that people want to hunt creatures that may very well be almost as intelligent as us and almost certainly sentient on top of that. Cows are dumb, so I have no problem eating them. Maybe that’s silly, but that’s just how I roll. I liken it to killing and eating Great Apes- it’s like eating your distant cousin. I can’t really justify my position any better than that, but it feels very very wrong- almost Evil.