Whale Wars.

[wolfy-hound]

The japanese claim to be within the laws, and technically they are. They claim to study the whales they kill, and if they take measurements and readings and bits to check for testing, then they are fullfilling their part of the bargain of "killing whales for research". Then what? You'd prefer they pitch the dead whale over board?

The japanese actually do test the whale bodies a lot, mainly for safety concerns like mercury levels, and ages and reproduction so that they know about the sustainability of whale stocks.

If the terrorists want the whaling to stop, they should get the loopholes in the laws changed. But let's face it, whales are in essance large cows that live in the ocean. The japanese consider them a food item, not a giant special mystical being. They are animals, same as our dogs, cows, deer, or bears. Big animals that happen to live in the ocean.

If the numbers of whales are high enough, then the whaling commission puts a quota of the number of whales that can be killed. Sea Shepard wants to rush out and scream that THEIR opinions matter more than all the rest of the world that has set up the whaling commission and agreed to abide by their laws. Not only that, but they then use terrorist activies to further their goals, then actually whine and go all emo when someone dares to give them any retaliation for their own aggressive terrorism.

Personally, I think the japanese should have shot them for real, instead of the big fake shooting the sea shepard put on for the cameras. Pirates are shot on the high seas.

Whale Wars is just PETA fanatics being emo and whiney and trying to tell the entire world that THEIR opinion should matter more than all the rest of us. What next? Will you cheer and support Sea Shepard when they show up throwing blood and acid at cattle ranchers, saying that cows have every right to live their lives without being killed for beef? Why not? It's exactly the same thing, and they can use almost every argument against cattle ranchers as they do for japanese whalers.. but then, US Ranchers WOULD shoot them, and the emo whiners wouldn't risk that.

My $0.02, not that I have strong feelings against the PETA POS emo whiney babys or anything.