Japan To Hunt Another 400 Whales...WTF???
 

This is why Godzilla routinely stomps the shit out of Tokyo. The Japanese are hell bent on just hunting whales because of some tradition and could give two shits about the whale populations. So they're covering it up under 'scientific research'.

I say we arm the whales. They're smart animals. Probably smarter than us. We can rig them with automatic weapons and teach em' to hunt down ships with Japanese on them.

There's enough Japanese to go around. Nobody is gonna miss any whalers.

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Japan To Catch 400
Whales In Antarctic
News24.com
11-8-3

TOKYO (AP) -- A Japanese whaling fleet left port on Friday on an annual expedition to the Antarctic to hunt about 400 whales under a controversial government-backed research programme.

The hunts, sanctioned by the International Whaling Commission, have been criticised as commercial whaling in disguise by environmental groups and anti-whaling nations, including the United States.

Five whaling ships led by the 7 38-ton Nisshinmaru left the southern port of Shimonoseki with a crew of 200 for the 17th Antarctic expedition since Japan started the programme in 1987.

The fleet will catch up to 440 minke whales, a species that Japan argues has sufficient numbers to sustain limited commercial hunts.

Data from the hunt will be used in whale population and migration studies to build a case for "resuming use of this natural resource", said a statement from the Institute of Cetacean Research, the government-affiliated centre in charge of the programme.

The expedition will return next April.

The IWC banned commercial whaling in 1986 to protect the endangered mammals, but approved restricted hauls for Japan's $37 million research programme a year later.

Critics say there's no clear evidence whale stocks have recovered, and accuse Japan of engaging in covert commercial whaling. Most meat from research whales is eventually sold to restaurants to help cover the programme's costs.

"The thrust of this so-called research is to pave the way to a return to profitable commercial whaling," said Junko Sakurai of Greenpeace Japan.

Japan is one of the world's largest consumers of whale meat, considered a delicacy here.

Its long-standing campaign to convince the IWC to lift its commercial whaling ban suffered a setback at the group's annual meeting in June.

During the four-day Berlin meeting, a majority of the 50-member commission blocked a Japanese request to hunt 150 minke whales and 150 Bryde's whales a year in the North Pacific, and voted to establish a panel to look at improving whale protection.

Frustrated officials in Tokyo threatened to withdraw from the IWC or hold back financial contributions.

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi later said his country would work through the commission to achieve greater understanding of its position. His allies include Norway, which rejected the 1987 commercial whaling ban under IWC rules.

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Yeh they don't have a clue over there about animal rights. I don't even want to imagine what they do to lab animals.

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wish it was legal to hunt humans.

Weren't rape and murder once human traditions too?

what they do is they simple ignore the rules. Stupid fucks.

still are as far as i can tell.

SINK EM :321GFY

scum, should chuck'em a few more nukes, cull the population

When is the last time a whale did anything for you?

I just have one question about whales: who cares? All I ever hear are people pissing and moaning about saving the whales. Why save the whales? Screw them, what have they done for me? How would you like to go to the beach one day and read a sign that says "Sorry, all out of water." Not likely? Think again. Here's a little fact about whales that not many people know: Whales are drinking all our water and eating our sailors.

When they're not busy ravaging the high seas, they're getting beached and rotting to death out of spite so nobody can enjoy the beach.

Then there are the people who say whales are smart. If whales are so smart, then how come they still haven't learned to breathe under water like everything else that lives in the ocean? They've only had 40-million years to do it and they still don't have their shit together. And now researchers are saying that they've found gay whales. Duh.

Is it too much to ask for a whale to save me for a change? When is the last time you procrastinated by putting up a stupid web page instead of studying and a whale saved your ass during the test? Never. In fact, when is the last time a whale did anything other than some stupid trick like jumping out of the water? Ooh, the whale can jump out of the water. Big deal. Try building an oil rig, then I'll be impressed asshole.

"Data from the hunt will be used in whale population and migration studies"
Umm...can't they just tag them with a sonar device and then free them to track this info?

You can't sell tracking data to the local restaurants.

because they are killing (a few) whales ?

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I hope you are writing this because you have drunk too much wodka last night. If not, you need to educate yourself bigtime.

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Its a plagiarizing troll:

http://maddox.xmission.com/whales_suck.html