Martha
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Very sad
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Zingtea:I can hardly believe the audacity these killers must have to protest against witnesses of their crime and act like they're the victims.
First of all, industrial whaling (the kind of whaling the article depicts) is purely commercial and was started in Japan by Jura Oka 1898. After World War II, as part of the Marshall Plan, the USA built the six-ship whaling fleet (the largest whaling fleet in existence today) that Japan uses now.Tassie_Rohan:What crime?
Its legal and its part of the culture.
Whaling has been a way of life and commerce since we started using tools and wether you sell the meat to other people as food or you eat it yourself (good luck eating a 10 metric ton animal yourself) its still very much used as just that, food...Zingtea:First of all, industrial whaling (the kind of whaling the article depicts) is purely commercial and was started in Japan by Jura Oka 1898. After World War II, as part of the Marshall Plan, the USA built the six-ship whaling fleet (the largest whaling fleet in existence today) that Japan uses now.
Second of all, commercial whaling has been ILLEGAL ever since the International Whaling Commission, a body of which Japan is a member country, passed a moratorium on it in 1986. The whalers say they kill whales (they killed over 500 whales last winter when the quota was 900) for "scientific research" and then publish reports saying that whales eat fish, which has been known for decades.