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Old 18-10-06, 10:36 AM
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Iceland to Resume Commercial Whaling
So, the rot starts. Iceland is going to resume commercial whaling, extending its whaling programme to include the fin whale (on the endangered Red list) in addition to the minke whales it already hunts under the "scientific" smokescreen.

They are also suggesting that they will export whalemeat - against international law - possibly to Japan.

Full story here

The main issue is that they consider their hunting to be sustainable, but are acting unilaterally. If each country did this then, of course, you end up back in the same situation where the sum of all the individual "sustainable" catches is unsustainable. What is even sadder is that most of this is a political battle, not consumer demand.
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Old 18-10-06, 10:52 AM
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Dreadful news. There is all this pressure from the whaling countries like Iceland, Norway and Japan to resume commercial whaling when there seems to be little consumer demand for the product. In Japan, a large amount of the meat from the so-called 'scientific' whaling ends up as pet food. What a tragic waste.
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Thats it i'm getting my frozen chips and artic roll elsewhere from now on.

Joking aside it does seem like a terrible step backwards.


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not even justified (sort of) by being a subsistance food stuff...... its just commercial greed ! Fu***rs!


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The one thing i dont get is what they need all the whales caught for research for, I mean they have caught thousands and if by now thay hav'nt come up with anything to back it up?.

So far it seams all the conclusions are, "we(the people catching them) like to eat them, their big and live in the sea"

Maybe we should tell George dubya that whales can sniff out oil and then he'll go to war with anyone hunting them.

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Iceland not that big, so I would guess we could take them?

I say send the troops in!
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I know.. total downer.. I just don't understand why.. well on second thoughts we all know why.. money! I guess their very rarity makes whalemeat valuable. What a waste of a beautiful creature
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It is beyond bad... but hardly a surprise... when did we ever consider long term consequenses over short term profits.????

A disgrace, looks more and more likely we will one day look back with regrets on whales that once was... and then what??

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