Controversial discussion. Should the Japanese Government be allowed to kill 1000 whales a year?

in the Antarctic Ocean, including baleen whales (whales that don't eat fish they just eat tiny prawns called krill). They are saying that the whales eat fish, therefore they impact on the fishing industries in the Pacific Ocean. They also claim to require this many whales for 'scientific research' when Australian researchers have discovered how to get all this information from skin cells that the whales leave behind when they breach. Some of these whales are endangered and others will be if they keep going. Is it wrong for the Greenpeace boat to follow the Japanese and watch the kills? Is it wrong for the Japanese whalers to spray the protesters with giant hoses? Is it wrong that the whales are taking up to half an hour to die sometimes because of the method of kill (tiny grenades shot into the animal causing internal bleeding)? I'm sorry, but I think the world needs to pay more attention to what's going on, and to try and force the Japanese to prove their scientific findings.

Controversial discussion. Should the Japanese Government be allowed to kill 1000 whales a year?
I don't consider this controversial in the slightest. The Japanese should not be allowed to slaughter whales at all. What are they researching, where are their findings, why is the whale meat being stockpiled and why don't they want to show footage of the slaughter of whales in Japan? They know what they are doing is wrong yet for some reason, they like to be 'rebels' and defy the rest of the world.
Reply:no it doesn't
Reply:whales are murdering billions of plankton every day..


whos out there for those lost souls...
Reply:Whales are a protected species, they are endangered and not great breeders. Wild whales need to be conserved. If the Japanese want to kill a thousand whales a year, they need to breed two thousand whales a year- if they can rear double what they kill- they can kill whales. Seems fair to me.
Reply:The Japanese continue whaling in the face of international opinion, good science, and common sense. No one is fooled by their claim that they are doing this for science, we all know that it's to protect the politically powerful (but economically unimportant) whaling industry. The Japanese commercial fishing fleet has long viewed the world's oceans as a free resource for Japan to plunder at will. Japanese trawlers circle the globe depleting wild fish stocks to feed Japan's appetite for wild fish, and this is just another manifestation of Japan exporting its own environmental problems to other parts of the world.
Reply:Hug a whale.
Reply:The real reason seems to be money- so they think whales eat "their" fish! How about the japs doing things like controlling population (human) to reduce ecological footprint of the most dangerous animal on earth (that would be us).





As to eating whale meat- many people are utterly revolted at us killing and eating hooved animals or skippy the bush kangaroo! But at least our food sources are generally treated well and killed humanely- I have a problem with seeing explosive tipped harpoons fired into chest/abdomen and watching an animal die in utter agony. If they are desperate to hunt whales because it is a cultural practice- allow it BUT restrict hunting using TRADITIONAL methods (wouldn't like that, I suspect).





Nothing scientific about it, and I am offended that they think we will believe them! How gullible do they think we are? Or, more likely, they are arrogant enough to lie to our faces, and laugh knowing we know they are doing so.
Reply:IS IT WRONG TO THROW ACID BOMBS AND RAM FISHING BOATS? THE RUBBISH YOU SPEAK IS A JOKE SKIN CELLS WHEN THEY BREACH U WILL GET ALOT OF RESEARCH FROM THAT YOU FOOL U ARE A IDIOT