They have a very bad research team

researching the best way to cook them

Maybe they should at at doing research on anime
Wait...
That's how hentai happened

South Park had the best reason for this. Apparently they bombed Japan in ww2 with nukes and not the USA.

The UN has even tried to stop them, but they refused because whaling is a "tradition".

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Soon enough, whale porn.

Sad :(