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Japan to Resume Whaling, Fleet Sails to Antarctic Tuesday

posted by CoolHand on Tuesday December 01 2015, @06:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the captain-ahab dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

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.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by NotSanguine on Tuesday December 01 2015, @08:12AM

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Tuesday December 01 2015, @08:12AM (#270086) Homepage Journal

    "Nuke the gay baby whales" to which is often added "for Jesus".

    I never heard that, but I didn't grow up around those sort of folks, and not being a christian myself, I also don't know what Jesus has to do with anything.

    Although my brother does like to compare himself to the mythical figure by (correctly) claiming to be a "loud-mouthed Jewish carpenter." And if Jesus was anything like my brother, I feel sorry for the folks he hung out with.

    As an atheist myself, I find that sort of stuff amusing, though. In all fairness, I did find Jesus Christ, Superstar to be quite entertaining.

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  • (Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:01AM

    by GreatAuntAnesthesia (3275) on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:01AM (#270106) Journal

    > I did find Jesus Christ, Superstar to be quite entertaining.

    In that case, I suspect you will be more than quite entertained by this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO1pq8uT1xA [youtube.com]

  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:01AM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:01AM (#270448) Journal

    "nuke a gay whale for jesus" .... "I fail to see what jesus adds..."

    The point is that so many adherents of the other religion of peace, are into nuking things and other war, gay bashing, against any sort of environmental protection, and do it all in the name jesus. It's an obvious dig at right wing conservative evangelicals.