(ah ha!) Moonie Sushi Business Linked To Japanese Whaling

[donsu]

http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/23/15249/4612


How does Unification Church head Sun Myung Moon finance the Washington Times, an exceedingly partisan newspaper that loses perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars a year ? How does cult leader Moon, well connected to the powerful Bush family and who has boasted of spending "hundreds of millions" to influence American politics, bankroll the American religious right ? The answer is fishy, literally.

As Moon predicted over two and a half decades ago, Americans have taken to raw fish and Moon's Unification Church has been on hand to cash in. As an April 2006 Chicago Tribune expose' related: "The Moon followers' seafood operation is driven by a commercial powerhouse, known as True World Group. It builds fleets of boats, runs dozens of distribution centers and, each day, supplies most of the nation's estimated 9,000 sushi restaurants". Recently, True World Foods was implicated in an an illegal shark poaching ring, but this summer the company plans to profit from the growing American taste for Sushi in a venture that may prove even less politically and culturally savory. True World Food's partner in a the new supermarket frozen Sushi line planned for launch around the nation this summer, reports IPS News Service, is "Japan's Kyokuyo, a multinational seafood conglomerate, sells between 10 and 20 million cans of whale meat a year, according to an Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) report released Tuesday. 'Kyokuyo is breaking international laws,' said Alan Thornton, president of EIA, an environmental group based in the United States and Britain."

Just to be clear : eating the new frozen sushi line that's coming out this summer won't result in more whales being killed, it merely will increase the profits of the leading Japanese whaling company and send money to the Unification Church, which bankrolls the Washington Times and the America religious right. And, of course, the new sushi line will probably speed up the rate at which the world's oceans are being stripped of large fish.

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American Sushi eaters have largely been unaware of the extent to which their raw fish cravings have helped finance the American religious right and the exceedingly partisan Washington Times, a paper recently troubled, writes Max Blumenthal for The Nation, "by allegations of racism, sexism and unprofessional conduct".

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This Spring, George Bush Senior longtime friend and beneficiary of Sun Myung Moon's financial largesse, will share a stage with the wealthy cult leader at an event commemorating the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Washington Times. Will Greenpeace USA be on hand to protest ? Can Moon go head to head with American environmentalist mores ?

Stay tuned.
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[Deja Q]

1. I save sushi as a treat in restaurants.

Maybe not any longer. But Moon, like most cult leaders, is probably just a paper tiger with a superiority complex. :shrug:

[donsu]

3. no, he is a clever religious con artist that has politicians in his pocket

he is doing dirty work in South America

among other things

[Nia Zuri]

2. No more sushi for me!