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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: 4, Insightful) by VanessaE on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:24AM

    by VanessaE (3396) <vanessa.e.dannenberg@gmail.com> on Tuesday December 01 2015, @07:24AM (#270072) Journal

    "To hunt a species to extinction is not logical."

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by isostatic on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:24AM

    by isostatic (365) on Tuesday December 01 2015, @10:24AM (#270113) Journal

    Whoever said the human race was logical?

    • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:03PM

      by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Tuesday December 01 2015, @11:03PM (#270389)

      Gracie is pregnant.

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      "Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."