Because that's a trash ideaAnyone know if Sea Shepard have a crowdfunding campaign to get some torpedoes?
And if not, why not?
Yeah, you're right.
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.Doesn't the US also allow for commercial whaling?
Canada allows for seal clubbing.
I don't exactly support either, but I've never understood why people get so bent out of shape when the Japanese do it.
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.
I'll never understand the whole whaling thing for Japan. No one really eats it yet the govt keeps doing things like this.
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 get why they try so hard to this, I mean I read that it wasn't that popular in Japan in the first place so why the push for it all the time from them? The same goes for dolphin hunting.
True, true.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.
Anyone know if Sea Shepard have a crowdfunding campaign to get some torpedoes?
And if not, why not?
Nah, those people are heroes.Which would be awesome, the more Sea Shepherd people are behind bars, the better world we live in.
OK. Same thing?
I'm happy for every country to ban meat, let alone specific meat, if their economy and diet can sustain it. And I believe they can. But I'm not sure what a 1940s world war killing civilians to test a military theory and also legitimately stopping a war has to do with this specific right wing government transgression.
Nuking civilians during a dreadful potentially endless war and killing whales to support a business or be edgelords aren't equitable.
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.
No worries. The next one I meet gets a double in your name.I guess we don't seen eye to eye on that one. In my eyes, they are eco terrorists and belong in jail.
I would like to see them receive another warm welcome if they return to Norwegian waters.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.
Amen to that.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.
That's what the NPR report I heard yesterday said.I always thought (or "thought to have tead somewhere" to be more specific) that the whaling thing has more to do with national identity/pride and misguided traditions than actual food production and economic demand.
This would fit into the whole nationalistic angle the Government seems to lean in to right now.
If someone is more qualified to talk about this topic and Japan's recent political tendencies, please correct me.
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.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.
This is factually untrue. Denmark and Iceland are miles below Japan and Norway, who's the only debatable one.