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Tokyo.- Greenpeace activists in Japan have been arrested for exposing a stolen whale meat scandal involving the Japanese government-sponsored Southern Ocean whaling program.
Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki are charged with stealing a box of whale meat which they presented as evidence of a whale meat smuggling operation. The activists requested a Japanese government investigation into the scandal, and the Tokyo public prosecutor agreed there was sufficient evidence of wrongdoing. His investigation has not yet been concluded.
“Our activists are innocent of any crime. They have been arrested for returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers, and exposing a fraud that may reach high into the Japanese government agencies that run the whaling program,” Greenpeace said in an emailed statement.
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Also, Japan has to stop trying copying China's way of stopin activists that whant to help!.. :)
Fine but I am on Japan's side of this issue. The Whales that they are harvesting are not endangered in any way and the # they are harvesting will not cause even a dent in their Population.
I am a conservationist (Don't call me an enviromentalist). Sustainable harvesting is ok.
Where is the report that says the whales are not endangered species?
Who brought that up? Americans? Didn't Americans push whales from Cape Cod Bay?
isn't that the whole reason we get more whales in DR?
According to the International Whaling commission.
http://www.iwcoffice.org/conservation/estimate.htm
There are 761,000 Minke whales in the Southern Pacific oceans. This is the species the Japanese are targeting. There take for the year will be approx: 300.
There are 11,600 Humpback whales in the Western North Atlantic. Nobody is going after them.
We are doing well by keeping the ones that come our way. it's good to know which countries don't agree with our international policies. there goes my Corolla.
e.g. buy petro support terrorists, buy Honda kills whales.
Let me guess....or every steak you eat you provide for 10 cows.
Or are you one of those scrawny Vegans?
How about seafood? For every crab taken they should be replaced by 10 more?
where is the field "la granja", "la finca" where YOU raise whales for consumption?
As for the crabs, fishing them is sustainable.
some whales are older than you. the number of whales that survive a few years old are not that many; making the specie a target for extintion.
Open your eyes man, the world is not granted, we have to work to keep it.
Why such protection of the whales? Because they are cute. Crabs are ugly.
Crabs are born by the billions. The ones that fisherman gets to collect is just a few compared to the ones left. A few million more will be born tomorrow.
As for the whales you can count the ones still in the ocean.
And as far as finding a whale cute, that's your take. I don't like pets and I don't find them cute. We just share the world we live in.
My wife would agree for sure; the only animal that should be domesticated is man itself.