[Guardian] Graphic footage of Japanese whaling released

2008.02.08

"Australia's government stepped up its campaign against Japanese whaling by releasing graphic footage of a minke whale and its calf being harpooned and dragged aboard a ship. The images were taken by a customs ship that has been tracking the Japanese fleet in the Antarctic to gather evidence for a diplomatic and legal battle against whaling. Japan's whaling body accused Australia of spreading 'emotional propaganda', and denied the whales were a mother and calf."

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[Natmossbim123]

@PJL10100 Hey what about Norway & Iceland? They harpoon whales! Do you hate Norwegian & Icelandic people like you hate the Japanese? If you don't hate them to the same extent, why?

[Roofer91]

Japanese goverment is full of shit!!!this is not research and they should be held accountable on a global scale including sanctions until it stops!!

[BabyBirdWispers]

@A11573000 what do you mean?



[PJL10100]

@A11573000 Mao and Pol Pot were evil fuckers too

[beamla]

@A11573000 Pointless racism. It doesn't matter what race people are, it matters what they do.

[A11573000]

off topic but japanese killing whales, is not ass bad as what the white men did throughout history, just saying

[PerfectionIncarnate]

It's actually much less than half a percentage. Math fail... /sigh

[PerfectionIncarnate]

@AdvocareAdster There are multiple species of whales. The ones that are being hunted are far from extinction, such as the minke whales.

All official whaling countries have quotas. For instance, Iceland has been hunting around 40 Minke whales a year, out of a stock of around 100 thousand animals. That's less than half a percentage of the entire stock around Iceland.

There are likely around a million Minke whales in the world today.

[AdvocareAdster]

I am a hunter myself and am a supporter of conservation. I understand the purpose of quotas and why they are established, but I don't understand why others can't be the same way. Especially for these animals, they aren't like your neighborhood deer that multiply back to the original numbers (usually),