Japanese Whaling 2011-2012. Greenpeace inaccuracies. Sea Shepherd action.

Japanese Whaling uses $30 million of the Tsunami relief fund to try and kill more whales in the Antarctic Southern Ocean, which is supposed to be a designated whale sanctuary, according to the IWC (International Wankers Commission). Which century is Greenpeace's John Frizell living in? He also said the whalers left the Southern Ocean early last year with as low as 450 whales. They only reached 17% of their self imposed quota...170 whales. Thanks to the only conservation charity that takes on the criminal poachers where it counts..in the hostile Southern Oceans, and that is Sea Shepherd. I'm glad I stopped my Greenpeace subscription.

How much money do you raise to save whales Greenpeace?

THANK YOU ALJAZEERA FOR COVERING WHALING AND FOR SHOWING THE ONLY ORGANISATION TAKING ACTION AGAINST THE POACHERS. Thanks also for all the reports you do about environmental issues. You stand out from main stream media. MORE OF THE SAME PLEASE. Tim

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[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 9 of 9

What I find incomprehensible and totally indefensible is the continued exploitation of animals, any animals, mainly for the whims of the fashion industry or so called traditional medicine, or cultural rights, the exponential growth of meat consumption or even worse, despicable ‘trophy hunting’.

Will we ever shake off the shackles of insanity?

[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 8 of 9

even the Ivory trade is still thriving and they are just the glamorous species. And now Sharks are being plundered in their millions, just for a bowl of tasteless soup, and they’ve been around 400 million years. For that they deserve admiration, not decimation. Habitat destruction unfortunately wipes out species across all biomes. The sooner we realise that Homo sapiens do not own the domain of planet Earth, the better off the rest of life on Earth will be.

[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 7 of 9

External to this grotesque economic system that puts zero value on Mother Nature, services carried out by all ecosystems, in every biome, in the one priceless biosphere that ALL life has to live.

Yet even in the last fifty years a huge number of animals have perished at the hands of humanity, other Tigers, Lions, Leopards, 90% of the largest fish, Tibetan Antelope, all kinds of Bears, Elephants, Hippos, Turtles, Pangolins,

[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 6 of 9

The impacts are accelerating humanity at an alarming pace to a point of uninhabitable ghastliness. And yet the majority are wallowing in a self-imposed denial when all of the consequences of this sadistic exploitation and violence are rapidly charging the dominant culture to self-annihilation.

But the deluded fantasies of limitless growth, production and consumption, completely conceals the destructive damage that are externalities.

[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 5 of 9

They are all extinct, gone forever. It is shameful that we can be so reckless, so ignorant of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all life on Earth. It is an absolute tragedy that the majority are so indifferent to the 200 species going extinct every day, mostly through habitat destruction and utterly unsustainable avarice.

[mettasutta67]

@tomatodamashi Part 4 of 9

What happened to the billions of Passenger Pigeons, almost as many Eskimo Curlews, the millions of Great Auks, the Stellars Sea Cow, the Thylacine, the Pink Footed Bandicoot, the Caspian, Balinese and Javanese Tigers, and recently the Yangtze River Dolphin, the unfortunate Dodo and thousands of other birds and species?

[bparno]

The international whaling commission is responsible for this tragedy, how can they allow this to go on? They could use the funding to train these whalers to become farmers. Who are they kidding, there are alway's alternatives.

[Muziify]

I personally am not a fan of green peace because they did not say that sea shepherd drove them out. He did not tell the media that sea shepherd is the main cause behind the whole lowering their catch!!

[tomatodamashi]

@berenisse1000

I can't find ur last comment here but I found it incredibly racist. First off, you condemn all Japanese b/c a few eat and hunt whales. U value whale life more than human life and I find that disgusting. Poor Africans hunt gorilla b/c they have no other option but to eat them. I wish the world was different.

Humans are omnivores, most ppl eat meat. As I said, minke whales are safe to hunt. Yeah most ppl arent like me, b/c they cant see past their own cultures' biases

[tomatodamashi]

@mettasutta67 Part 3

As for the fashion industry. Typically fur comes from mink farms...I thought you were against hunting "wild animals"-we breed mink for their fur-what is so wrong about that? We kill cows for leather, it seems strange that hairy animal skin is so bad, but leathery skin is A-OK. Another case of people eating their hypocrite pie.

As long as the Japanese, Norwegians, Inuits, etc do responsible whale hunting, I could care less.

[tomatodamashi]

@mettasutta67 Part 2

As for the J. whale hunt, they overwhelmingly hunt minke whale which is considered a "Least Concern" species. So unless you equate all whales equally, which would be ridiculous-you must admit that you are only viewing this from your cultural bias. As for the other reductions in biodiversity that you mentioned, I would completely agree with you. Some of which is done to provide land for cattle farming (rainforest depletion). So where are the anti-beef protests?

[tomatodamashi]

@mettasutta67 Part 1

I appreciate the well thought out response. But you missed my argument, and here's why. First off, where did you get the 90% figure? It is so hard to measure sea life. As for wild animals, we fish all the time. I guess you've never had salmon. As for fish farms, those fish need other fish for food which are also caught.

[tomatodamashi]

@InfidelUniversity

what are you talking about? You're argument is ridiculous. All Im saying is that what we eat is cultural. If Indians ruled the world, they would say no one should eat cows. If Jews ran the world, they would ban pork. This is very far removed from advocating cannibalism. You can't look past your own cultural feeling of superiority.

Your last sentence was completely unintelligible, so I can't respond to that.