Posted by Dave (at the last day of the International Whaling Commission, in Anchorage, Alaska)
Yesterday at the IWC, the debate on the Japanese resolution for coastal whaling took place. There’s been no agreement in the request for such a programme, so the vote has been put off until later today.
It’s at once interesting, unsurprising and alarming that Japanese delegation is now making no secret of the fact that that coastal whaling is a form for commercial whaling. Yet, they’re also trying to claim it’s no different from Aboriginal Subsistence whaling as practised by indigenous people in Russia, Alaska and Greenland. They want to have their whalemeat and eat it, so to speak.
“What’s wrong with commercial whaling?”, asked the Japanese commissioner, Joji Morishita.
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