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Old 12-21-2007
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Re: Watson threatens to ram Jap whalers.

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Originally Posted by TanjyDee View Post
If no one ever protested and acted against the whalers then we would have allowed the whales to be hunted to extinction. All this in the name of something people don't really need. We don't need to hunt whales for food or fish oil anymore.
If people don't need whales then why do you care if they become extinct?

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Originally Posted by TanjyDee View Post
Anyway. The Japanese have decided to delay their "research" hunting of humpback whales for two years while the subject is debated. Japan to Drop Humpback Whale Hunt
From that link...

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Critics say the program is a shield for Japan to keep its whaling industry alive until it can overturn a 1986 ban on commercial whaling.
From what I understand, the purpose of the ban was to save the whaling industry, not destroy it. The moritorium on commercial whale hunting is simply a means to that end, not the end in and of itself.

After all, if you kill all the whales there won't be anymore whales to hunt.
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