What if we could talk to Whales?

Peter Watts (the science fiction author I mentioned last week; today I went back and read the interview I linked to) has a lovely site, with a blog (personal news side-by-side with science news; no feed, so go read it all), and stories and background on his books.
The story currently featured on his site, Bulk Food (coauthored with Laurie Channer), is a funny and chilling story in classic 2000AD Future Shocks style, dealing with the topic in the title of this post, and drawing on his harrowing real-life experiences as a credentialed whore at UBC’s Marine Mammal Unit.