Never a good idea to ask a single person to speak for a nation, regardless of the subject matter. Tokenism doesn't offer much in the way true education or enlightment on a subject.

As to Iceland's decision: I believe we have seen the end of the moratorium on whale hunting. There is a lot of whale hunting starting up again, based upon all that "our father's father's tradition" crap.

It has everything to do with capitalist exploitation of any animal product that can be sold to any idiot on the planet looking to escape their personal lived reality (getting a hard on, having youthful skin, curing cancer, etc etc).

The reality is, there is no need for animal products in consumer goods. None. Zero. Zip. Zilch. The end of the moratorium on whale hunting by ancient whale hunting societies now seeking to exploit the world's capitalist lust and greed for animal products has nothing to do with "tradition" or a chemical requirement for consumer goods that only animal products can supply. It is about greed. Nothing more, nothing less.