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Where is the justice? Kangaroo slaughter against whale hunting.

Australia, in common with many other observers, remains unconvinced by Japans justification for whaling. Japan currently exploits a loophole in IWC rules that allow it to carry out its annual whale hunt as a scientific exercise. The discussions between the Japanese and Australian foreign ministers follow several months of bitter acrimony on the high seas, as anti-whaling protesters have harried the Japanese fleet and been met with fierce physical resistance. In one clash a vessel owned by the US-based Sea Shepherd activist group was sunk after a collision with one of the ships in the Japanese fleet. On the other hand, Australia is also being accused on slaughter of the kangaroos.

ニュースアニメ「カンガルー300万頭撃ち殺す豪州に反捕鯨の資格ある?」
インターナショナル・ヘラルド・トリビューンは、オーストラリアのラッド首相が、調査捕鯨をやめなければ日本を国際司法裁判所に提訴すると発言したことを、厳しく非難した­コラムを掲載した。コラムは、豪州の反捕鯨運動を、科学的ではなく感情的な「十字軍」だとし、「日本の捕鯨船を悩ましている豪州、ニュージーランド人活動家(シー・シェパ­ード)らに与えられた英雄的地位にも、それがみられる」と述べている。そのうえで、ノルウェーが国際捕鯨委員会(IWC)の規制を拒否、アイスランドがいったんは脱退し、­カナダは脱退後、復帰していないのに対し、日本は少なくともIWCに属していると日本にも理解を示し、ラッド発言は捕鯨諸国にIWCに協力する気をなくさせるものだとした­。さらに、「鯨に銛(もり)を打ち込むことは、牛や羊の肉を常食としている者の間にさえ感情をかき立てるのかもしれないが、豪州は、作物や牧草を守るため年間300万頭余­の野生のカンガルーを撃っているときに、苦情を言える立場にはほとんどない」と、反捕鯨国の偽善性に踏み込んだ。西洋人が東洋での犬肉消費にゾッとするのは感情からで理性­ゆえではなく、鯨肉を、一部欧州国の食卓に乗る馬肉と違う扱いにする道理はないとも述べ、「豪州が選別的感情の問題をアジアの主要同盟国との外交対立にまでしたのは愚劣以­外の何物でもない」と結んでいる。
ちなみに、中国の政府系シンクタンク中国社会科学院によると、現在、中国政府がイヌ肉とネコ肉の食用を禁止する方向で検討している。イヌやネコを食用にするのは中国だけで­はなく、イヌ肉は韓国で、ネコ肉はベトナムや南米の一部地域で食べられている。包括的な動物保護法案の一環として盛り込むものだが、法案成立までは10年はかかるだろうと­している。

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  • cows, dogs, and kangaroos are not in the brink of extinction, unlike the whales.

    keep making excuses, the japanese.

  • Whales are tasty, not endangered (at least not the kind we hunt in Iceland) and extremely healthy for you. They live their whole lifes roaming around in the oceans free and then they get killed instantly, unlike how cows and other farm animals live in tiny cubicles their whole lives, are filled with poisonus chemicals and tortured to death.. Fucking hypocrit bastards.

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  • 鯨魚要絕種了,但三分之二的都是日本殺的,笨蛋

  • I think he stopped making videos awwwwwwwww

  • @PesiCool arrr cows living in tiny cubicles?Tortured to death?Filled with chemicals? You really have no idea of what your talking about do you?Or are you trying to make this YOUTUBE FACT?Cows in Australia graze from Qld to NSW ,we have farms in OZ bigger than your country mate :D No tiny cubicles in OZ mate.We Make Big look small in OZ!

    As for japan Hunting Whales ,they have been for centurys who are we to tell them they cannot hunt them,Its High Horse syndrome.

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    And whale aren't as ABUNDANT as everyone seems to claim.

    Kangaroos are a pest.

  • @PesiCool THay actually aren't that healthy for you. The level of mercury in their body is higher then any common fish you'll find.

  • @M3diaCultur3 Minke whales stole brink of extinction species whales feeding spots

    keep making excuses, the gaijins

  • @Hupenidik what's wrong with eating dogs. it's not like they are going to die out?

  • @PesiCool but cows chickens are domesticated now, we can "produce" them, can you feed and domestic whales? if you can, just eat what ever you want but do not hunt the wild whales!

  • @Hupenidik some do but i don't

  • @PesiCool well said friend!

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