They still aggressively hunt whales.
But, what about the thousands of sharks that get their fins cut off every year, and are thrown overboard to drown?
Not cute enough animals I guess and they also sometimes bite people.
Humans aggressively hunt and kill many animals.
Even animals hunt and kill each other.
Not to mention industrialized production of beef and chicken.
Look up whaling sometime, you will realize that there are more than one species, and that many of the smaller types of whales that are being actively used for food(!), are quite abundant. (they shoot these animals in the head with grenades, a better death than many cattle).
At least with the likes of the alaenoptera acutorostrata, it is closely being monitored on the northern hemisphere, so that they do not take out so many animals that the population decreases and cannot recover.
(less than 1% of the estimated total population per year)
I have tasted whale many times, think it taste like liver most of the time, so I am not a fan at all and I could care less if they hunted whale or not.
But, you can get gelatin from many places, I am not even sure they still use such gelatin in film-production?
As for Acros II, sure, I will have a go at it.
Still have the freezer full of Acros I and it continues to serve me well.