I hate to drudge up old topic, but this right here is why the whale chapters were so iffy. Like, here they're criticising the government for not doing enough in conservation and/or greenlighting projects that will endanger the clams. But over there with the whales it just sounds more like "we have the right to eat whale because there's plenty of them, so there".
Had there been a similar discussion about needing to make effort to protect and conserve the whales while eating them it'd be less off-puttingly hypocritical.