Posted on 01/19/2006 3:04:48 AM PST by HAL9000
A huge beached whale has been dumped outside the Japanese embassy in Berlin. in a Greenpeace anti-whaling protest.The controversial environmental activists hauled the fin whale to Berlin from the Baltic coast after finding it beached on a sandbank.
The dead whale measured 17 metres (56 ft) long and weighed 20 tons.
Activists are trying to demonstrate that there is no need to kill the mammals for research - as Japan does - because cadavers can be found.
Japan is expected to kill 935 minke whales in the Southern Ocean whale sanctuary during the first four months of 2006.
The International Whaling Commission imposed a moratorium on commercial whaling in 1986, but Japan resumed whale hunting the following year.
Critics dispute Japan's claim to be whaling for scientific purposes, saying whale meat often ends up on restaurant tables.
A Greenpeace banner in Berlin read: "Science doesn't need harpoons! Stop the senseless whaling!"
The fin whale in Berlin - between 10 and 20 years old - is believed to have got lost in the Baltic while looking for herring. Its normal habitat is the North Atlantic.
The whale is due to be taken to Stralsund on the coast for scientific examination after the Greenpeace protest.
So killing a whale for research and food is bad, but using a dead whale to make a political statement is good?
Agreed. The convoluted "logic" of watermelons is amazing.
Saw photos of Japaneese whaling boats killing whales the other day.
Japs should be ashamed as many of these whales have more brains then many Japaneese.
Excuse me? It’s not twisted logic at all. The protestors didn’t kill the whale they used, which is their point. You might disagree with them but their argument makes sense (from their point of view).
That is a lovely opinion for you to have.
Ted Kennedy went to Germany? My condolences to his family.
Way to attack the poster but not his argument.
How is that any kind of an attack? WTF? If anything, his initial post to me is an attack on my argument. Nice friggin convoluted logic, or complete and utter lack thereof.
Have a nice day!
Nope. Couldn't be Kennedy. He is of the species orcinus orca, commonly known as a killer whale. The whale in the article is too big to be an orca.
LOL - That's a classic, and certainly belongs on the thread.
The Germans should haul them into court for creating a 20 ton public health problem.
If anything, his initial post to me is an attack on my argument.
As it should be. Nice reading comprehension. Basically, you tried to invalidate the post and the author of it rather than discuss the logic of the statement. To respond to your initial statement:
So killing a whale for research and food is bad, but using a dead whale to make a political statement is good?
Basically, yes. The activists are opposed to killing whales. They don't care what happens to a whale once it is dead. Their point, if you read the article, is "that there is no need to kill the mammals for research - as Japan does - because cadavers can be found." They also "dispute Japan's claim to be whaling for scientific purposes, saying whale meat often ends up on restaurant tables." I have read a bit about the issue, and it seems like Japanese are using dubious research to justify whale hunting.
I really hate "environmental activists" and those like them. I'd gladly go to hell if I were assured that a couple of them would be chained to me.
That is a lovely opinion for you to have.
Besides, he already proved he can float, at Chappaquidick...
yep, but the real question is how do you just drop this big a thing on a doorstep at an embassy? dont embassies have video cameras? nobody noticed this whale riding on the back of a very large truck? again, unloading this behemoth took some time, but nobody saw this? ah well, i suspect lots of people are blind.
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