Japan wants deal to scale down 'scientific' whaling

Maybe the Japanese public is waking up to the fact that Cetacean meat has very high levels of mercury in its meat. They used to give it for free school lunches until parents and school officials protested. I suppose the only way they will make money on whales in the future will be capturing live dolphins (technically also whales) for use in "swim with dolphins" parks.

So far you all seemed a bit one sided, and most disappointing of all, agreeing that the best course of action is to kill the fishermen making a living, sailing to antartica while avoiding militant protest ships full of arseholes on ego trips.

"Torpedo every fraking whaling ship" are you retarded, do you really want a problem of overfishing to escalate to violence.

"We are by nature self destructive, made to fight one another and conquer each other" and this is just sad.

whatever they're "researching" they suck at it, unless it's the effect of different recipes on whale meat.

Do you really think that they need to slaughter whales for scientific reasons?
No, they don't.
Humans generally slaughter one another in the name of religion or greed.
We are by nature self destructive, made to fight one another and conquer each other. Maybe, just maybe , if we start caring for the planet and the organisims that live here with us, maybe we will start caring about each other more.

Of course, if you disagree feel free to cull yourself.....

"Commercial whaling has been banned worldwide since 1986, but Japan justifies its hunts as scientific research, while not hiding the fact that the whale meat is later sold in shops and restaurants" So would it be better if after the research they left the corpses to rot.

Maybe we should sort out the culling of each other before we turn our attention to saving a few fish.

Torpedo every fraking whaling ship...so say we all.

Bahahahaha Sea Sheherds FTW!!! Damn Greenpeace woulda sat there and let these asshole keep going but I'm glad those guys found some balls and showed the Japanese whaling fleet that they aren't untouchable

I wonder if they'll play The Cove at the conference?

My take. F-em [whalers] Follow em,....catch em in international waters,....get in the way,.....and if they escalate,....match em,....blow for blow or better.

they want to be able to guard their ships with their navy. i'm sure they would *love* to arrest the cap'n and crew of the sea shepard fleet, maybe charge em with terrorism.

the IWC is a joke

Matthew wants deal for Japan to realise that the environment is not an economy and regardless of how immoral others treat their environment using an economy as an excuse, does not mean they also must submit to the waves of pathetic ill leadership circulating our world in this new and exciting era.