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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 morgauxo on Wednesday December 02 2015, @04:31PM
Have you ever just sat in the woods and watched wild animals in the woods, going about their business? Short may be a correct description of their lives however I wouldn't say nasty and brutish applies unless you only chose to look at their dying moments.
Animals aren't slaughtered all that humanely either. It used to be common for them to just get shot in the head. Unfortunately animal rights activists protetested that method too much. Now they get electrocuted. In a chaotic, dirty environment electrocution is not always reliable. On the clock workers don't always have the time to make the distinction between dead and just stunned. Often animals get butchered alive!
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Thursday December 03 2015, @01:00AM
Yes, I have. Some of them seem to do quite well, but I doubt that a human observer gets an accurate picture. (OTOH, Hobbs clearly overstated his case.)
OTOH, some animals escape being killed by a predator (including, but not limited to, humans) and suffer permanent injury that is untreated and unrecovered. Animals are the original Stoics (as well as the original Dyonesians). Were I choosing, I'd probably choose to be a wild animal, but with actual humane treatment there are valid arguments on both sides. Unfortunately, that doesn't describe most agricultural practices. And especially not the "factory farms".
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