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I recently wrote a blog about the Sea Shepherd and its righteous battle in the Southern Oceans. In it I mentioned Greenpeace’s absence, though that they had taken the front line to Japan rather than allowing the Japanese to bring it to the world’s whales.
This they have been doing and on the 13th a trial started in Japan of the upmost importance. A team of Greenpeace activists in Japan have been investigating the whaling industry and the corruption within it and when evidence was found and presented to the World, they were arrested and now stand trial rather than the sailors involved in the corruption. Though they have family they have put their freedom on the line for their beliefs.
Protests round the World at Japanese embassies as well as in Japan itself have shown the Japanese government that this is way too far to go for the corrupt, illegal and pointless killing of whales. The video is a very short and informative documentary about the situation, so please take a minute to watch it.
Greenpeace recently opened a public communications centre in Japan, where it will talk to Japanese people about environmental issues, including Japanese government’s whaling program. The centre is in the northern fishing town of Aomori, where Greenpeace activists Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki – the “Tokyo Two” – are due to be tried.
Greenpeace also enticed President Obama into their camp. He has stated that:
Having said this he then entered talks with Japan to establish a ban on whaling in the Southern Oceans.
Fantastic... couldn’t be better...what’s that? The agreement will make it acceptable to kill whales in Japanese waters instead? Well then what’s the difference?!
One step forward is apparently always accompanied by two steps back.
Despite the more than obvious opposition in New Zealand and Australia, the governments both have representatives at the meetings to establish the new parameters of Japanese whaling. Let’s hope they hear the pleas from Greenpeace and the World and put an end to this barbarism.
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i hope that you greenies
i hope that you greenies realise the so called western nations were killing whales even in n.z here in the 1800s
one would ask why on earth would you impose your non whaling values on
cultures that have been eating whale, as part of diet for thousands of years like ie; scandinavian,japanese,icelandic nations.
its like taking a grain eating chicken and making it eat pureed human food for geriactrics....its simply doesnt work becoz the chicken is designed to eat grain.
it is the same for the cultures that i described...they are maritime food nations for gods sake!.
may the western world greenies force their own citizens to eat their so called healthy SCHIT food which breeds obesity.... and leave the whale eating nations to do what they been doing for millenia.
i recomend these smelly,unemployed,self described ecologist, free lovin,gay promoting GREENIES go and get a real job!.
OH! YOU PROMOTE A CLEAN ENVIROMENT AND GO CHASE WHALERS USING A HEAVY OIL,SMOKE BELCHING OLD RUSTY SHIP!!!! HEY THATS USING OIL THAT YOU TELL PEOPLE TO REFRAIN FROM USING BECAUSE IT POLLUTES!!.
GREENIES..... WHAT HYPOCRITES YOU ARE?.
CARL G
Carl G: The article is about
Carl G:
The article is about the illegal whaling by Japan. The Japanese do not have any such culture of eating whale for "thousands of years." The Japanese people are not "designed " to eat whale meat. Do the research.
They are whaling illegally in--of all places--a WHALE SANCTUARY. (Sorry, folks, for the all caps--I was just speaking Carl's language.)
As for the western nations doing it in the 1800s, gosh, that was just a little before my time, but I do apologize for the actions of my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather. I think a few things have changed since then.
Actually there is enough
Actually there is enough compelling archeological evidence that shows that whaling was practiced in Japan even since the Jomon period, which dates to as recent as 3000 years ago. I believe you may need to do some more of this "research" you are talking about.
yeah thanks for backing me
yeah thanks for backing me up, the last contributor..
you greenies must have a lot of time to single out one race like the Japanese...
.......like i stated there's untold nations that eat whale as previously described.
another parallel is look at cows and sheep for instance?.....they are designed to eat grass and grass products only!!!! and humans like the diverse animal kingdom....one has to realise that every creature/culture has its own dietary requirements...think about it!
the Japanese from what i observed and the Scandinavians etc are far more greener and show more respect in their environment/living, than we in the west are.....you just go to japan and have a look,it makes n.z looks like a TIP.
in n.z we WASTE other nations resources by importing bottom end rubbish, which i can blame on the MONEY GRABBING IMPORTERS (NOT TO MENTION THE TITE-ASS CONSUMER THATS KIDDING THEMSELF) whom sell that product for TOP END product PRICES for PROFIT.....and due to products life short lifecycle we end up with BIGGER TIPS!.
we should be importing top end, well designed, long life product that could be recycled.
Oh! n.z we eat mutton at the expense of island nations like NUIE the little island that we ripped the guts out for bird dung to grow mutton and currently its sinking because of that.....so start thinking about the trail of destruction n.z has done, to further our clean green image...its a joke!!!! lol.
...i looked into societies like Greenpeace, sea shepherd ,save the children etc.....they are societies......you look at the millions that they are given or willed over. and then look at the junk they use and low wages the workers are paid on their missions....these people (WORKERS/SUPPORTERS)are simply kidding themselves...
...THE BRAINBOXES BEHIND THE SO CALLED SOCIETIES ARE MILKING MILLIONS OF BUCKS UNDER THE PRETENCE OF DOING GOOD.....
IF IT WAS A EXTREME IMMINANT THREAT TO THE ENVIROMENT? GOVERMENTS WILL STOP THIS WHALING.
OH ARNT THE RAINFORREST TRIBES DUE TO EXTINT AND POLAR BEARS (CANADIANS) TOO I THINK THE CAUSE OF DAMAGE TO TRIBES ENVIROMENT IS MORE OF CONCERN THAN A FEW WHALES!.
CARL G
I'll say it again: The
I'll say it again: The Japanese do not have any such culture of eating whale for "thousands of years." The Japanese people are not "designed " to eat whale meat.
How long ago a culture "practiced" whaling is irrelevant. Some western cultures "practiced" whaling but are not "designed" to eat whale meat.
Carl is correct about westerners eating so much highly processed and non-nutritious "foods," but I am clueless as to why he feels compelled to attack those who oppose whaling. Carl, would you attack organizations who fought against the currently incredibly cruel treatment of chickens, pigs, or cattle?
What is your complaint about a group that focuses its efforts to bring about a unquestionably better world?
Wow a rare case of both
Wow a rare case of both sides are right though i have to say Mr G that you could put things better.
That said Greenpeace are a Society yes but are most definately not for profit accumulation. That is a fairly ridiculous statement. Japan's whaling begun in earnest in the early part of the last century as the food shortage due to the massive wars raging on the planet forced them to look to other food sources. The whaling is now conducted under a guise of scientific experimentation NOT for food. That doesn't stop the vast percentage of it ending up in tiny exclusive restarants in Tokyo. The Japanese as a result of this have a huge frozen backlogue of whale meat not being use, i mean tonnes of the stuff. The young people in Japan do not eat whale like the older war generations. Does that clear it up?
Corruption is the name of the game here and is very much part of the governments you naively claim will never do anything bad for us. Governments are constantly making bad decisions which history clearly teaches us. Just look at the mess John key is making of environmentl issues!
The idea that culture is static is another bizarre assumption. Japan as all societies is a dynamic being and will change according to the demands of its people and that state of the world around it. You wouldn't claim it is ok for Mugabe to kill thousands of his country men because genocide has been employed in Africa for such long periods would you? So Carl, stop being so ignorant and claiming greenies (if that is what we are) are so two dimensional that we can't take into account other factors than the environment.
For the record carl i am not gay either but thanks for trying xx
eurgh whaling is
eurgh whaling is disguisting, sort your life out.