Japan's whaling fleet sets sail

[acmejack]

Japan's whaling fleet has set sail for Antarctic waters where it will make its biggest catch in 20 years.

The boats will aim to catch nearly 1,000 whales over the coming months.

A global moratorium on commercial whaling has been in place since the 1980s, but Japan describes its programme as "scientific."

The hunting is condemned by most conservation groups on the grounds that it is inhumane, unnecessary and may harm fragile wildlife populations.

as reported on BBC

edit for clarity on BBC

[goforit]

1. These will be ruthless killings.........We have to stop them ASAP

Can any one place holes in their boats?

[JetboyOne]

5. Are there any legal ways

they can be stopped without resorting to illegal actions?

[xchrom]

2. to me this issue is worthy of calling in the navy.

this is one i think is worthy of a fight.

it's barbarous and disgusting -- to satisfy the appetites of a few with the bodies of sentient beings.

[tatertop]

19. I agree with that 1000 percent

If we can't save the whales from slaughter, what can we do?

[Loonman]

3. Whaling

And anime porn. Gee, Japan must be a great place!

[jamaliman]

4. Maybe

not the place to say it but I had to go to Tokyo on business once. I thought the US was the number one racist country in the world; I was wrong; the Japanese are. Never have I been treated as poorly by very bad hosts and I know damn well when I walked the streets over there that stuff they was saying to me was some kind of slur.

[ixion]

6. And why the Antarctic, and why after 20 yrs? because Japan fished out

it's nearby oceans long ago, and has been importing a vast majority of it's seafood since then.

And now they'll fish out the Antarctic as well. :-(

[Nihil]

12. That's not a problem though, is it?

... 'cos it's "cultural" ...
:puke:

[Bonobo]

7. What a bunch of racist, intolerant, ignorant posters! Lovely!

Cultural intolerance and ignorance is so nice in the morning...

You should all hold a big friggin mirror up to your own lives and see how perfectly innocent you all are.

[acmejack]

9. I haven't ever eaten a whale!

Nothing to do with race, I am just as down on Iceland. I simply take strong exception to eating sentient creatures, endangered ones at that!

[Nihil]

11. Well if you see this in *your* mirror ...

you can shove your "cultural intolerance" up your arse.

[SOS]

16. Maybe Japan could at least

keep their "culture" out of the Australian Whale Sanctuary.

"The evidence presented in the case is that Kyodo has killed approximately 428 whales
within the Australian Whale Sanctuary since the Sanctuary was declared on 16 July 2000
and that Kyodo intends to continue to whale there."

The Japanese whalers are "intolerant and ignorant" of Australia's culture. As the whalers violate Australia's sanctuary, they too can take a look in that "friggin' mirror".

[Solon]

21. This is about as culturally necessary as...

Gorilla Ashtrays in Africa or Lion heads on walls in Britian.

[saigon68]

23. We used to call them ( Insert racial Epithet Here)

They had very smelly toilets as I recall

[bluedawg12]

8. Why the f*ck don't they eat soy beans for their protein?

The whales belong to the world.

Natural treasures and resources no longer belong to the first homo sapiens* who shows up on the scene with murder in his heart and a rifle.

What is wrong with these people?

* homo brutiens is more like our species. we really and truly suck.

[Nihil]

10. "Japan puts whale burger on menu" - BBC

"Japan has said it will double the number of whales it kills for
scientific research, a move that was opposed by an IWC vote on
Wednesday.

The chain of restaurants, on the island of Hokkaido, said the burgers
were selling well.

All of Japan's whale meat comes from the 700 or so it is allowed to
kill every year for research purposes."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4122800.stm


Except this year they are aiming to kill even more sentient creatures:

"Japan's whaling fleet has set sail for Antarctic waters where it will
make its biggest catch in 20 years.

The boats will aim to catch nearly 1,000 whales over the coming
months."

Fucking shitheads.

I hope every one of those whalers dies a painful death before they
get chance to slaughter any more "burgers".
:nuke:

[Doremus]

13. I am livid. Barbaric, selfish, greedy, short-sighted bastards.

Is there nothing safe from piggish humans?

When they've killed all the whales, tigers, rhinos, elephants, tortoises, baby seals, gorillas and leopards, what will they do then?

There is no end to man's stupidity and selfish greed.


:mad: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :mad: :mad: :grr: :nuke: :grr: :mad:

[Ezlivin]

14. Last Call!

Can they pull the ocean's plug when they've culled the last whale? Thanks.

[rayofreason]

15. "Scientific" whaling????

Horse hockey!

Go to any Japanese city and walk into any department store. The first floor is always perfume, and the two basement floors are a grocery store. And you can always find whale meat for sale.

[flvegan]

17. Not if these folks have anything to say about it...

The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will sail their flagship, the "Farley Mowat" into those waters with the sole intention of intervening. Yes, intervening.

http://www.seashepherd.org/whales/whales.html

[tatertop]

18. Is it considered an act of terror to donate to this cause?

I salute these brave people.

[Barrett808]

20. Shameless plug: Support Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

http://seashepherd.org/whales/whales.html

[KamaAina]

22. As if that weren't bad enough, many dolphins end up as bycatch

:grr: :grr: :grr:

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

edit: Hopefully this will not become a problem in the Antarctic as that is outside dolphins' range, but it HAS been a problem with Japanese whaling in the past.

[Gyre]

24. Japan is fucked!

Lying barbarians. :grr:

Gyre