ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (AP) - With talk of exploding harpoons and other new weapons, whalers argued Tuesday that technological advances have rendered the hunt more humane. "The animal's just there in the water, the harpoon goes right into its body and its over," said Fan Odin Olavsen, chairman of the Norwegian-based High North Alliance of small-scale and subsistence whalers, as he described a harpoon fitted with penthrite explosives. "It's more humane than a (cattle) slaughterhouse, where the animal has to be taken out of its environment, transported and wait a long time before it is killed," he said. See full story <http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2559681143-99c>
