Japan wins key vote to reintroduce commercial whaling
Through bribing small countries with no history of whaling, the Japanese have managed to win a vote at the IWC to begin the process of returning to commercial whaling.
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Many whales are still significantly threatened with extinction. The whaling process is one fo the cruellest hunting methods with animals often taking over thirty minutes to die - usually of asphyxiation. These are animals with a high level of intelligence.
Japan's consumption of whale meat during the so-called 'scientific whaling' period of the last twenty years has diminished greatly. Stubbornly, they continue to kill whales even though the meat lies rotting and unconsumed by their markets.
The countries that have been found out in taking bribes are now producing the age old whine that the US, UK and Australia are being imperialist by threatening tourism boycotts. (Of course, Japan has never been an imperialist country like Australia)
There's long way to go before commercial whaling returns, but now is the time to make your feelings known (assuming you abhor such hunting) to your political representative and to the consulates of the countries supporting whaling. We thought we had won this battle many years ago, one of the few great conservation successes.
Back, I'm afraid, to the fight.
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Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
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