Did 'Whale Wars' End Whaling? Sure Sounds Like It

NY Post via Fox News ^ | February 18, 2011

[Pan_Yan]

Did a TV show force Japan to suspended its whaling operations?

The Sea Shepherd, the ship featured in the Animal Planet series "Whale Wars," has become so successful at harassing whaling ships at sea that activist groups are saying the TV show is at last partially responsible for ending whaling as a modern industry.

"Sea Shepherd's repeated sabotage is. . .deplorable," Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, Yukio Edano, was quoted saying in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. But, at the same time, he confirmed that the government has suspended whaling.

[Pan_Yan]

Hippies Failing Badly!^TM

Please let me know if you want on or off the Whale Wars ping list.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Dang. The hippies put themselves out of a job! LOL!

[JRandomFreeper]

Great. Where am I going to get streaky blubber to fry with my eggs for breakfast in the morning?

/johnny

[Truth29]

Sea Shepard is a pirate ship just as dangerous as one from Somalia and should have been treated the same way.

[stormer]

If it did, good. There is no sound reason to kill whales. I don’t care if they’ve been doing it since the dawn of time - there certain things you just need to get rid of.

[Pan_Yan]

Dang. The hippies put themselves out of a job! LOL!

Not a chance. Hippies always have something to protest while free people do things they don't approve of.

[Scythian]

I agree, I was in full support of the “Sea Shepard”, if you ask me they should have had torpedo’s and sunk the whalers ... I hope this is true.

[fhayek]

Did "Whale Wars" end whaing? Uh, no.

[kbennkc]

[Pan_Yan]

I was in full support of the “Sea Shepard”, if you ask me they should have had torpedo’s and sunk the whalers,

So criminals should be allowed to kill workers doing things that are legal, but you don't approve of. How very conservative of you.

[battousai]

If it did, good. There is no sound reason to kill whales. I don’t care if they’ve been doing it since the dawn of time - there certain things you just need to get rid of.

People in India may say we have no sound reason to kill cows? So should we stop eating beef? So why should we tell the Japanese (and Norwegians) not to eat whale?

[beaversmom]

I don’t like enviro/animal nuts, but I don’t like whaling either.

[Vision]

Does anyone believe Japan is giving up? Please.

[ohioman]

Don’t worry. I am sure these Hippies scum will show up next at your local fishing pay lake.

[Vision]

Then change the law. It’s legal to harvest that whale specie.

[Pan_Yan]

Does anyone believe Japan is giving up? Please.

Whaling has been heavily subsidised for years. It much more a matter of national pride than economics. Ironically, I wouldn't be suprised if it would have stopped years ago except Japan didn't want to give in to ecoterrorism.

[eclecticEel]

And when the worlds billion and a half Muzzies demand that you stop eating pork - I’m sure you’ll meekly comply. (better add beef to that too since the Hindus don’t like that either.)

[sagar]

The difference is that the Japanese are not killing whales raised in their farms, rather going out to the sea and slaughtering them. I doubt anyone would protest if they raise farm fish/mammals.

Slaughting wild whales is akin to poaching wild tigers or wild elephants.

[Fiji Hill]

Perhaps the best friend the whales ever had was the Confederate raider CSS Shenandoah, which sailed into the Bering Sea in the summer of 1865 and wiped out the Yankee whaling fleet.