If we work together to hammer out a global whale and whaling management plan we all walk away the better. The Revised Management Scheme is the vehicle by which nations, organizations, Indigenous and Coastal Peoples can live together on this issue of sustainable use of marine mammals.

But it must be said. Recent headlines, television advertisements, difficult-to-believe surveys of multi-millionaire, tax exempt organizations like the IFAW, prancing about as saviors of the world’s wildlife, add nothing to the hard work necessary for such a plan and certainly do not benefit whales.

Such lunacy certainly does not reflect the behavior of those circumpolar people who live where no plants grow, who need marine mammal protein to feed their children.

Racist? What else do you call individuals or groups who spend tens of millions of dollars on campaigns to assassinate the character and cultures of Island, Arctic, and Coastal Peoples, whose traditional diets have included marine mammals since well before Western, middle-class, pseudo-liberal environmental organizations came on the scene? What do you call individuals and organizations that tell other people: "Do as we say, or perish!"

Those who condemn others whose diets differ and who are intolerant of beliefs that also vary from the Western norm can afford to hire paid guns from the cinema to construct flashy photographic illusions, as IFAW has done in the past and continues to do now.

IWMC-World Conservation Trust says, "Enough is Enough!" Time to actually do some work and approve a realistic quota management plan for cetaceans. Once this is completed, nations can begin to live in harmony with each other and the environment for at least one aspect of their lives.