Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Risking It
Japan is risking the world's condemnation by announcing it is taking up commercial whaling again. The country is self-imposing limits on where it will fish but that won't mollify international authorities and conservationists. Whales have reached a consciousness among the public that equals elephants or lions. We don't want to see them hunted any longer. The days of Herman Melville are long gone and anyway, whalers were never upstanding citizens of the sea. Ship captains were careful to stay upwind of the vessels and their great iron reduction pots. The Japanese don't whale for oil but for food, but that makes little difference. Look for many protests and disruption of the ships at sea.
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