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Japan to withdraw from IWC to resume commercial whaling
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Look at the chart. Bec 56 a year is a helluva lot less than 526. Especially with species that might not even have 5-10k in their population worldwide.
The population of common Minke whales is over 500 000, so killing 1000 of them a year has no impact at all. And whale meat is delicious.
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My understand of the matter is that it's basically a matter of stubborn pride and warped culture for the old people generation. Which also happens to be the generation in politics, since younger people are hardly politically apathetic. So the old men in power want to continue to prop up the stuff they feel they are entitled to, and relate to others in their generation. One of these things is whaling, which doesn't really have commercial support in an economic sense, but no one wants to admit it's a dead end industry and just move on. One comparison would be how the more rural areas in US that depend on coal industries or manufacturing look to the government to save them from a dying industry. Now imagine if the government was actually invested in doing that, creating artificial demand and implementing policies that ensure these industries continue to support employment, even without actual market demand.
I don't want to make a "two wrong don't make a right statement" but...I think there are probably better ways to pressure the Japanese government that don't involve murder.
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True, true.
If they could restrict themselves to maiming and the occasional instance of manslaughter that would be much more effective.
Commercial whaling will be conducted within Japan's EEZ, so they would have grounds for arrests and seizure of Sea Shepherd ships that tried to interfere with the hunts.
Which would be awesome, the more Sea Shepherd people are behind bars, the better world we live in.
Nah, those people are heroes.
Their boats dock in my hometown on the regular. I make a point of buying drinks for any of the crew I meet.
I guess we don't seen eye to eye on that one. In my eyes, they are eco terrorists and belong in jail.
I guess I'll just have to offset that by buying not one but two packs of delicious (sustainable) minke whale meat next time I spot it at the supermarket.
I think the problem is that unfortunately the harpoons don't have special Minke-only guidance systems, and it's not always easy to identify the species correctly from a distance. One of the complaints with Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean was that other species were also being accidentally killed.
It seems this is Japan's baby boomer shit show. Sorta like BREXIT or MAGA, just with extinct whales as end result.
I wouldn't even mind the whaling, if people actually ate the stuff. Many of the whaling expeditions are done on tax money and much of the meat never gets sold to consumers. I remember reading that ridiculous amount of whale meat ends up into pet feed. Some times they serve it up in schools for free, but even that doesn't fly anymore since there have been few batches with high mercury levels.
Unions and other fishing related lobby groups need to keep the gravy train going.
Unions and other fishing related lobby groups need to keep the gravy train going.
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This is factually untrue. Denmark and Iceland are miles below Japan and Norway, who's the only debatable one.
Just look at all this research!