The Aussies are putting more pressure on the Japanese and Japan’s whaling exploits. Japan is permitted to kill 850 minke and 50 fin whales each year to prove that whale populations can recover. I am sure there is some logic there somewhere - we can kill to prove that they can survive. And the mean from the whales is sold in Japan as a “research byproduct.”

“Yup, eating this doesn’t kill me. And if it did, it’d be a good test to see if humans could keep the population growing.”

The Aussies will promote, “the government’s objective of ending Japan’s so-called scientific whaling and improving the conservation of whales globally.” Last year the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has sent is vessel, Steve Irwin, to disrupt the Japanese.

“We intend to once again intervene against illegal Japanese whaling, and once again we intend to save the lives of as many whales as we can with the resources available to us,” the Sea Shepherd Prez said Friday.

“We have been the cause of the Japanese whaling fleet losing profits for three years in a row,” he said in a statement. “We intend to make it a fourth year of red ink for the whalers’ books.”

I wonder if the whales know what the Steve Irwin is doing. I wonder what Steve Irwin would think.

Original image by gwaar

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