Industrial Canada, Whaling : British Columbia's Least Known and Most Romantic Industry (1919) 

For oil ,fertilizer and dog food...that's crazy ...wait till the hand of God ...returns

Yes there was a use for it all, sadly the most important part was wasted though :-( The life of the creature.

The problem with whaling; there are just not enough whales.

The amazing thing is, extinct animals can just re-evolve at a later time. Evolution and the beginnings of life is not a one-time event. It's happening all around us right now. The idea that it only happens once is a religious idea from the book of Genesis.

You said this before buddy. Shut up already.

@@mrhorse6587 Nope and there's no way you can make me!

bastards

Because it’s not politically correct.

Because humans don't like to watch how their foods, energy, etc., get to market. Very squeamish for such violent human animals as we are.

Definitely West Coast indigenous people. You can tell by the clothing and facial features. Fascinating film.

About the commercial killing of whales Don’t glorify it

I think I’d put in the proper context it makes perfect sense. Just be glad it doesn’t anymore.

ASS WHOLES

Speak for yourself, Budroe…

And what a sanctimonious, ignorant bastard you are, OP...

Yeah, that’s why we keep reading idiotic comments from people like you that have no concept of how people live.

GENOCIDE worse than hitler

It was work. Work is not romantic. Survival is not romantic. Deal with it.

You’re an idiot too. Mankind will pay for our ignorance and wiping out these creatures. We’re next!! The oceans are dying this planet is too so whatcha gonna do when you have no clean air or water to drink etc?

They still don’t

It is impossible to equate how good we have it now to how hard it was to survive then...it just don't work you watching this on a phone or computer in heated/air con environments with hopefully better food, shelter, Healthcare, and work life then these poor souls killing to live

@@petergriss6131 EXACTLY

They weren't doing it for fun....

@T I understand that these whalers had to make a living. That's obvious. But even back then, the technology had to exist to be able to obliterate whales in a relatively humane way. It's kind of inhumane to torture something for several hours just to turn its body into perfume and soap, methinks. Especially when the roots of the technology required to decimate whales "humanely" existed by the 1920s. A/C was actually invented in the mid-1930s, and anti-tank rifles existed by the 1940s. A well-placed shot with one of those rifles could have put a whale out of its misery quickly. Hell, even a well-placed shot with a bomb lance whale harpoon, which is designed to explode and kill the whale, could theoretically do that. Those were in widespread use by the 1920s. Perhaps changing the regulations to only allow head shots with harpoons would have greatly reduced the cruelty and allowed greater profits for ship crews and owners. Time spent fighting wounded whales is time that can be spent hunting and murdering other living, breathing, and suffering whales/beings.