They just don’t seem to get it! A lot of people don’t like the idea of killing, for ‘scientific purposes’, the largest mammals on Earth: whales. The only scientific study I could imagine would be to see how many they can kill before they don’t recover.
David Attenborough has previous said:
…If whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it.
Then they give money to poor Caribbean nations for ‘fishing aid’. What is this, so that these countries create over-developed fishing industries that will be just outraged by the impact of whales eating their fish? It’s so false and underhand and just disgusts me. Can’t we show repeats of The Blue Planet on Japanese television continually until they beg us to stop and repent their horrible crimes. Japan and Norway’s tolls: 2,500 whales killed in the last twelve months. It’s disgusting.
WaPo: Pro-Whaling Nations Lose Early Vote
Guardian: Japan hits out at ‘polarised’ whaling council
Popularity: 1% [?]
I felt physically sick when I read the reports. Barbaric practices. Most whales don’t even EAT fish, they eat plankton, so Japan’s complaints of the whales eating ‘their fish’ don’t hold water.
I totally agree. I also thought it was telling that St Kitts blocked the presence of Greenpeace. Why is that? I know they’d incite protests, but isn’t public debate and awareness part of the democratic process?
Whalewatch.org
Obviously only if it reflects what you want it to think!