IWC Meeting Commences in Japan
from the people-eating-tasty-animals dept.
The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission has gotten underway in Japan, and the Miami Herald has an interesting article on the early results. IWC meetings have always been a colossal lie-fest, and this year’s is shaping up nicely in that regard, with much of the fun centering on Japan’s (so far failed) efforts to get the organization’s ban on commercial whaling overturned. (Not that that stops anyone from engaging in commercial whaling; it just requires that the offending country claim the killing is for aboriginal subsistence or for scientific research, as is done by Russia and Japan, respectively.) I like Japan’s denial that they are using promises of foreign aid to get poor countries to join the IWC and vote as part of the pro-whaling bloc; the latest countries to jump on that particular bandwagon are Benin, Gabon, Palau and Mongolia, traditionally uninterested nations that have all joined the IWC in the last few months and are voting in lockstep with Japan.
June 20th, 2004 at 8:29 pm
Hmmm THAR SHE BLOWWWWWS i wonder what the dummies at GREENPEACE think? they are always wanting to save the whale although the whales coundnt stand them idiots