SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:36PM
Cute. You get the dignity of a response because at least you aren't trolling under AC.
If nobody cares, why is it being reported by every major news organisation in world?
Or is it that when you say "nobody" you actually mean "not me", because in your sad little head you are the only person in the world who matters?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 01 2015, @02:52PM
You are the sad moron supporting greenpeace jihaddis. You and your buddies at greeenpeace and peta deserve to rot at the bottom of ocean.