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Japan will dispatch a whaling fleet to the Antarctic on Tuesday after a one year suspension, the government said, defying international criticism and a UN legal ruling that the "research" expedition is a commercial hunt in disguise.
"The research ships will depart for new whale research in the Antarctic on December 1, 2015," the Fisheries Agency said Monday in a statement on its website.
Tokyo has for years come under intense global pressure to stop hunts that opponents decry as inhumane but that Japan says are an inherent part of its traditional culture.
The United Nations' top legal body judged last year that Japan's so-called scientific whaling activity in the Southern Ocean was a disguise for commercial hunts.
It's for scientific research. Tasty, tasty research.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Fledermaus on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:18AM
What do you kill if you don't kill wildlife? Or do you mean that someone else kills the animal, which you have never seen, and packs it nicely in a box that you pick up from a store? ;)
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:49AM
Pretty sure he means someone else guarantees there will be a plentiful supply of said animals, and their species is assured a continued existence.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by gnuman on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:31AM
What do you kill if you don't kill wildlife?
Read up on difference between wildlife and livestock.