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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) by hemocyanin on Wednesday December 02 2015, @02:01AM
"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.