Photo:Japanese whalers caught brutally slaughtering a whale mother and her calf
Source of image:http://www.green-blog.org/2008/02/07/japan-whalers-brutally-slaughter-a-whale-mother-and-her-calf/
According to an article entitled, "Japan whaling forum warned against sympathy vote" which you can read by clicking on the following link: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/07/11/3266160.htm , the country of Japan
"again plans to request permission to conduct what it calls "small-type" coastal whaling in the North Pacific, probably targeting around 150 minke whales. This request is going to occur when delegates of Japan are attending the annual International Whaling Commission meeting which is occurring "in the Channel Islands off the coast of France today."
We cannot give into Japan! They have no right to kill these whales! Apparently Japan is claiming that they are running out of Whale meat to eat due to the recent earthquake in the Country! I say no sympathy should be given to the Japanese! Back in 2008 an Australian court ordered the Japanese to stop whaling because it was illegal (see:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7188674.stm ). And yet what did the Japanese do? They disregarded this legal decision and continued to hunt and kill whales anyway!An international moratorium on whaling exists and yet the Japanese (as well as countries like Iceland and Norway) continue to kill whales! In fact in 2010,
"an international team of Oregon State University scientists, documentary filmmakers and environmental advocates ... uncovered an apparent illegal trade in whalemeat, linking whales killed in Japan's controversial scientific whaling program to sushi restaurants in Seoul, South Korea, and Los Angeles, Calif."
"Genetic analysis of sashimi served at a prominent Los Angeles sushi restaurant in October of 2009 has confirmed that the strips of raw meat purchased by filmmakers of the Oscar-winning documentary, "The Cove," came from a sei whale - most likely from Japanese "scientific whaling." (source:
The Japanese have been caught red-handed lying about their behaviour in relation to Whales in this World and they cannot be trusted ever again! (source: http://www.physorg.com/news190406841.html ) Their so-called "scientific whaling" activities are in reality not scientific at all, and only related to their selfish explotation and murder of another species of life on this planet: whales!! Whales are extremely intelligent and social animals who have the right to live as we humans do, as self-determining animals!
