The controversial documentary-Whaling War,is finally on TV.
In Whaling War,a group of activist,known as Sea Shepard steer their ship (Steve Irwin) to interfere with Japanese whale research/'research' vessel.
I'm against commercial whaling,so I watched.
Well.....I got myself to the point of thinking of joining them...
Whales~
Almighty of the sea.
The largest mammals on Earth,and now threaten by Human to the point of extinction.
How they are killed?
-Commercial hunting (at Alaska in Eskimo,permitted)
-So called 'research purpose' hunting (according to many many article from website and the doc. Whaling War)
-Ramped by boats and vessels
-Sound pollution (sonars,they drive the whale up to the shore and die)
-Shortage of food
Humans need them because.....
-Food (the meat,fats,oil)......
-Economy (each minke whale can earn up to 1/4 million dolar)
-Tradition?
I've done some research after I watched the doc.
Some say:
Japan states that it is not doing anything wrong. Government spokesmen say that it must kill the whales so that scientists can study its age, birthing rate and diet. Afterwards, the whale meat is cut up and sold. Under a loophole found in a 1986 International Whaling Commission (IWC) ban against whaling, the Japanese are allowed to do this in the name of "research."
http://www.helium.com/items/773375-japans-whaling-war-using-research-to-kill-endangered-humpback-whales
While some....
While "Whale Wars" presents a simplistic case of us against them, the noble environmentalists against the evil whalers, the reality, of course, is not so black and white. By international agreement with the International Whaling Commission, the Japanese were allowed to kill up to a nine hundred minke whales and fifty fin whales in 2007/2008 in the Antarctic ocean for "research purposes." Critics claim that this is thinly disguised commercial whaling. Whatever it may be, minke whales, in particular, are not considered to be particularly threatened. Estimates have placed the minke population in the Southern Hemisphere in the range of 200,000-416,700 whales.
The Sea Shepherds on "Whale Wars" are abolitionist animal rights activists. They believe that every whale is sacred and should be preserved. On this basis, they justify aggressively interfering with and attempting to disable whaling ships in international waters, including pelting the ships with bottles containing butyric acid, which recently injured four Japanese crew members. Their zealotry is strongly reminiscent of anti-abortion extremists. (Both groups share a fondness for butyric acid attacks.) The Sea Shepherds also attempt to maneuver Zodiac boats in between the whalers and their prey. More seriously, they have taken to ramming Japanese whalers with their ship, the Steve Irwin. (They deny this but several videos of the Irwin ramming a whaler are widely available.) Members of the Sea Shepherds have also boarded whalers at sea and in one case the Sea Shepherds interfered with the search and rescue of a Japanese sailor washed overboard. (The Sea Shepherds deny they interfered but that is not the opinion of those conducting the search and rescue.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/richard-spilman/whale-wars---eco-terroris_b_211993.html
Futher down the article above,they even said Sea Shepard are eco-terrorist
But Sea Shepard do this because they want to save the whales.
So who is right and who is wrong?
It's not just Japanese only,the Eskimo also hunting whale,but in a smaller scale.
People who need the whale:"It's my source of income!It's my source of food!It's my tradition?"
Whale:"Shit you Humans!"
Activist:"Those bastard are hunting whale!CRUEL!"
Eventually,we will know who is right,and who is wrong.By the time we know it,it will be too late to save the whales.
Think again.
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