Japan Seeks Arrest of Whaling Activists

ANCHOR:
And in Tokyo the Japanese are getting tough on anti-whaling protesters. Here's what they plan to do.

STORY:
Japanese police have sought arrest warrants for three anti-whaling activists involved in protests last year. The two Americans and one Briton were part of the Sea Shepherd.

A group suspected of obstructing Japan's whale hunt in the Southern Ocean.

The activists will go on an international wanted list as soon as the warrants are issued.

[Nobutaka Machimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary]:
"Whatever their claim may be, any kind of physical interruption that involves injuring and threatening others' lives should not be allowed. I believe this is a consensus in the international society."

And clashes happened again earlier this year setting off a diplomatic row between Japan and Australia.
Japan considers whaling to be a cultural tradition. It says it only whales for scientific research.

But their whale hunts have come under growing pressure from environmental groups. They say it is cruel and violates a 1986 global moratorium on commercial whaling.

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[flyby7a]

STOP EATING WHALES YOU MOTHAFUCKAS

[billyk61]

someone should walk into a jap reastront and shot a jap every time a whale is killed ha ha ha fucken ugly japs

[info145]

The truth is 70% of the readers on here are against whaling. Look at the facts: There are 196 countries on Earth. THREE are hunting Whales!!!

[info145]

November 1986: "SSCS activists return to Iceland and take action against illegal Icelandic whaling operations. Sea Shepherd members Rod Coronado and David Howitt engineer the sinking of two of Iceland's four whaling ships in Reykjavik harbor.

They also destroy the whale processing station at Hvalfjodur. This mission shuts down Icelandic commercial whaling activities for the next 16 years. The attack becomes a headline story worldwide."

LEARN A LESSON, JAPAN!!! YOU TOO NORWAY!!!

[ihaveairlockers]

@info145

I wouldn't know....

I only eat healthy food and drinks.

And mercury in whale meat is a load of bollocks.

The organs from japanese coastal dolphins have mercury in them.

Here in norway the Minke whales which we sustainably harvest have no such poison.

Stop spreading crap. My family are whalers here in norway and we all eat fresh whale beef all the time.

Norway is the best country in the world - again !

[info145]

Whale meat sells for $64. per pound. So one Minke of 6 tons would make the whalers $768,000...

unless the meat is discovered to have high levels of mercury in it, then the heroes of Japan generously donate those batches to schools, to serve as lunches because they can't sell it

[info145]

@ihaveairlockers

Your skin will glow bright yellow from all that mercury, and i'll laugh!

w w w .epa. gov/mercury/health.htm

[info145]

JAPANESE WHALERS HELP POISON THEIR OWN PEOPLE & CHILDREN: A Scientific panel has ruled that meat from Whales contains dangerous levels of chemicals & PCBs 10-1000 x higher than even fish. "Our advice is not to eat whale meat due to the impact on a child's brains.", said Janneche Utne Skaare, deputy director of the Nordic National Institute. Norway and Denmark have issued advisories against eating whale meat sold by whalers because of brain damage due to toxic mercury. Japan turns a blind eye

[info145]

@ihaveairlockers

Is any breed of cow in danger of becoming extinct?

Is any type of Whale being replenished daily by man after being slaughtered?

DON'T compare cows to Whales!!!

[ihaveairlockers]

@info145

ha ha ha...

Another "repeater" of the crap.

When you have eaten whale beef, and your family harvests whales for a living, you MIGHT know something about whaling and whale products.

You repeat the propaganda fed to you, and it shows.

Fresh healthy whale beef is great !

You don't know, you have never eaten it. It's totally healthy.