Guest guest Posted June 24, 2005 Report Share Posted June 24, 2005 Japanfs Whaling for gScienceh Condemned by IWC Majority The hot topic for this yearfs IWC meeting: Would Japanfs Fisheries Agency get away with its outrageous expansion of scientific whaling in the Antarctic? The result? Yesterday, a majority of IWC countries strongly condemned Japan for moving forward to more than double the take of minke whales and add endangered fin and humpback whales to their annual slaughter... sorry, science. But Japan will go whaling anyway. Japanfs controversial whaling effort - killing whales for dubious scientific studies that have virtually never been published in peer- reviewed scientific journals and then selling the meat in Japanese markets has been condemned by dozens of IWC resolutions. It is no secret that Japan ignores the public and scientific outcry against its gresearchh whaling as studiously as the US administration of George Bush ignores scientific evidence for global warming (but at least in the US, the vast majority of scientists reject the Bush politics on global warming). http://www.earthisland.org/immp/eco2005issue4.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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