[Dengar01]

Cows aren't endangered species. These Japanese are complete barbarians and are breaking the law. They put up huge signs saying they are "doing research" when they are really just slaughtering whales for profit.

I pray that each and everyone of you watches "The Pacific" when it airs in March so you get a real taste of how barbaric the Japanese are. I don't know the exact date but there is a story of tourists going to a remote island 30 years after WW2 and they get gutted by Japanese who still are fightining for the empire.

You are dealing with maniacs. These whales are endangered, the ones who should be punished are the huns of our time, the Japanese.

[szweig]

The Japs are not hunting endangered whales (blues, humpbacks, rights et al.) At least they are not supposed to be. If anyone has evidence to the contrary please present it. Otherwise they can grab a limited number of Minkes. Chill out!

[Kirkwood]

You’re hysterical.

[elkfersupper]

Cows aren't endangered species.

Cows aren't endangered species because humans eat them.

If humans would eat more whales, there would be more whales.

[Greysard]

These Japanese are complete barbarians and are breaking the law.

The hunt is legal in the eyes of the world. I personally might like to say "no" to whaling, but I must not do so because I'm not a marine biologist and have no clue what's really happening.

In any case, such decisions must be made on the intergovernmental level, and not by a bunch of self-important yahoos with an agenda, the same ones who openly brag about acts of piracy that they committed. Even if they are right, their actions hurt more than they help. Who is going to listen to pirates? Will we listen to murderer's excuses that the victim was "asking for it?"

[ransomnote]

I can’t understand how the freakish behavior of people of Japanese descent living on an isolated island for 30 years reflects negatively on Japanese culture as a whole. IF there’s a freak island out there populated with barbarian Americans living like animals, I don’t want my country judged as having the same character.
When I worked as a marine biologist, I collected biological sampling data from the commercial hauls of fisherman. I think it’s wise to combine the two efforts so that you don’t catch/kill animals strictly to take measurements and toss them dead back into the water.

[Cold Heat]

Cows aren't endangered species.

Nor are the whales they were taking.

[tet68]

You are dealing with maniacs.

Obviously.

[AAABEST]

You sound like a ranting, illogical, overly sentimental dummy.

"Gee, I saw the pretty whales once in real life, and now I watch them on TV. They're much lovlier than the cows I eat every day."

Clue: The whale aren't endangered, the Japanese are following the law, the enviro-whackos are breaking the law.

[Lurker]

The nutballs are pirates and should be treated as such.

Sink their boats and machine gun the survivors.