09-25-2010, 12:28 PM
Harpoon a jap >>------>
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09-25-2010, 06:14 PM
I didn't look at all the photos, after I spotted the first blood I quickly scrolled to the end. Why are they doing that?! Are they starving? They better be hungry, goddamnit!
09-25-2010, 06:22 PM
it's in their culture to eat intelligent marine mammals. even if they are endangered creatures. and to cruelly hack, harpoon, beat, stab, and butcher them alive.
those whales and dolphins have families. they think and feel. they also fin sharks, a cruel and wasteful practice. sharks will soon be an endangered species. fuck their sacred ancestors, they'd probably eat them too.
09-25-2010, 06:27 PM
It's barbaric! It reminds me of the pix I saw of seal being clubbed. Fuckers. I hate to see creatures in fear & distress, it hurts my heart.
09-25-2010, 06:31 PM
Eskimos and Inuits who kill seals (and marine mammals) for food, and have for centuries, are not in the same league as these fucking barbarians. or anywhere near the same scale. they club them to stun them, in the ancient way. it's not pretty, but every bit of the animal was used for food and clothing. like American Indians and the buffalo. out of necessity.
09-25-2010, 09:46 PM
Harpoon, we don't need no stinking harpoon.
10-12-2010, 08:09 AM
so they freed some babies? they won't survive alone!
By ASSOCIATED PRESS October 12, 2010 TOKYO - The Japanese village notorious for the dolphin hunt documented in the film "The Cove" has slaughtered a pod of dolphins but spared the youngest animals, a U.S.-based activist group said Tuesday. Most of the dolphins caught by residents of the seaside village of Taiji on Monday were butchered Tuesday, except for two that will be sold to aquariums and six young animals that were released into the ocean, said Scott West, a member of the Sea Shepherd conservation group who is in Taiji as part of a campaign to protect the marine mammals. For years, Taiji has held an annual dolphin hunt which begins in September and continues through March. It has traditionally sold the best-looking ones to aquariums and killed the rest. But the Oscar-winning documentary - which showed how herded dolphins were stabbed in a cove that turned red with blood - has intensified international opposition to the slaughter. Activists are organizing a protest Thursday at Japanese embassies around the world against the killings. Unlike previous years, Taiji has been setting some of the captured dolphins free, probably because of the growing pressure, West said.
02-17-2011, 11:55 PM
YESSSSSSSS!!!B:B
(CNN) -- Japan has canceled the rest of its winter whaling season, with a top official reasoning that environmentalists' obstructive efforts made it dangerous for whalers to stay on the high seas. Japanese Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Michihiko Kano told reporters Friday that the country's government halted whaling because of actions taken by the animal rights group, Sea Shepherd. He stressed that Japan did not want to do so, but felt its hand was forced. "From the viewpoint of our crew's safety, we have decided to cut short the research whaling at this time, against our will," he said. The decision marks the first time Japan has canceled its whale hunt in the waters of the Antarctic since 2005, when it began a bitter battle with the animal rights group. What Japan calls its winter whaling season typically extends into mid-March. On Thursday, Hiroshi Kawamura, a government official in charge of research whaling, said Japan had decided to a temporary halt while it determined its next step -- one that it later ended up taking . Japan has left its fleet of four whaling vessels in the Antarctic, as it decides what to do about the winter hunt, according to the ministry. Capt. Paul Watson, who is helming a Sea Shepherd vessel called the Steve Erwin, said early Friday that at least some of those whalers were still in the Antarctic region. "If it's true, this is great news," said Watson, who heads Sea Shepherd's operations in the Antarctic. "But we'll keep tailing them until they leave these international waters." Japan annually hunts whales, despite a worldwide moratorium on whaling, under the auspices it is conducting scientific research. The moratorium allows the culling of whales for purposes of scientific research. Critics call Japan's hunt a cover for commercial whaling, since the whale meat ends up in supermarkets and restaurants. Animal rights groups, from Greenpeace to Sea Shepherd, and the governments of Australia and New Zealand, have publicly condemned Japan's hunts. "I hope this is the end of whale hunting by Japan," said Watson. "But if they return next year, we'll be here."
12-13-2011, 05:49 AM
THE MONEY YOU MAY HAVE SENT TO HELP AFTER TSUNAMI IS GOING TO HELP MURDER WHALES!
Blood Money: Tsunami Recovery Funds Go to Japan’s Whaling Industry Whale hunting season kicked off in Japan last week as three ships set off with a security vessel on their annual pilgrimage to cull hundreds of minke and fin whales in Antarctic waters. And so begins the annual showdown between the whalers and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the tenacious, publicity-savvy anti-whaling group that chases the Japanese fleet around the frigid waters of the sixth continent each winter. The yearly spectacle features scuba-clad activists zipping around in fast boats, lobbing stink bombs at the whaling ships and generally making life miserable for the crew who keep Japan’s 19th-century dream alive. The annual tussle even has its own reality show. Whaling is not an easy practice to defend these days, particularly when recent polls have shown that 95% of Japanese eat whale meat rarely, if at all. The state-backed industry, which Japan considers its sovereign right to pursue as part of a centuries-old tradition, is under attack both by environmental groups at home and abroad. And yet the government did not do its beleaguered case any favors when it confirmed last week that $29 million of the national post-tsunami recovery fund had been allotted to the whaling industry, including to provide extra security for the whaling fleet. They had to know that wasn’t going to go down well. Environmental groups in Japan are outraged that the disaster fund is being used to prop up an industry they have been fighting against for years. Though commercial whaling has been banned for decades, Japan is one of a handful of nations that continue their catch with the permission of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) for scientific purposes, culling about 1000 whales annually. “Pouring billions of yen into Antarctic whaling during this time of crisis is downright shameful,” Junichi Sato, head of Greenpeace Japan, told the Guardian last week. “Japan cannot afford to waste money on whaling in the Antarctic when its people are suffering at home.” Tokyo says the whaling industry needs the support of the fund to get back on its feet after March 11 just like other fishing communities on the devastated northeastern coast of Japan. Port towns like Ayukawa that were built on the back of the multi-million dollar whaling industry were destroyed along with so much else, and, like their neighbors, residents there want to get their businesses back up and running, too. “Many people in the area eat whale meat,” an official from Japan’s Fisheries Agency told CNN. “They are waiting for Japan’s commercial whaling to resume and it is their hope for recovery.” Read more: http://globalspin.blogs.time.com/2011/12...z1gPDElyNI
12-13-2011, 04:16 PM
fuking zipper heads
06-18-2012, 06:43 PM
1,000 whales a year for "research" purposes? WTF?
06-18-2012, 07:13 PM
The research aspect is bullshit. They are a government subsidised business, they sell to the govt and the govt uses the meat to stock food pantries and free lunch programs. The eating of whale in Japan has fallen to near zero in the last couple of decades, the govt has warehouses full of spoiling canned whale over there.
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