Japan to resume murdering whales
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It promises to be a nasty December in the Antarctic as the Japanese say they will go ahead with their annual whale hunt and promise to ramp up security to protects their boats from activists.
Sea Shepherds’ activist group will again try to disrupt whaling in the Antarctic
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the leading anti-whaling activist group, promises to be back in full force. Last year, one of its ships sank after colliding with a Japanese vessel, and its constant harassment forced Japan’s fleet to return home with only about a fifth of its quota, notes the Australian Broadcast Corporation.
Even though commercial whale hunting has been banned since 1986, Japan is able to conduct its annual hunt because it falls under “research.” It’s research with an agenda, explains the AP: Japan hopes to prove that enough whales exist to overturn the ban on commercial hunting. Sea Shepherd, meanwhile, in the ultimate irony, is calling this year’s effort to stop the ships “Operation Divine Wind“—after Japan’s kamikaze suicide missions of WWII.
The Japanese tout themselves as a civilized society and yet their peculiar eating habits, and ancient medicine rituals cause them to kill animals by the millions, all over the world. They care nothing about local laws, or the Endangered Species Act. Their murderous actions are partly responsible for the loss of several species, with sharks well on the way to that ignoble end. The fact is, if they had their way, they would no doubt slaughter every last whale so as to put whale meat in Japanese restaurants.
We wish the Sea Shepherds good hunting.
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