farmerman wrote:Msolga, I didnt want to divert this thread either. My apologies, whats the latest on the "Whale killers"
No reason for apologies, farmerman. I'm very interested in what you had to say about your personal experience of hunters & also what happened as a result of the killing of your cat. Also about the responses your comments received. I have never really understood folk like this, don't know any at all & I'm gaining some insight on
who they actually are & what their agenda is. That's thanks to you & cjhsa's
Nuge site. Very disturbing stuff.
But I do want to say that
no way do I accept that whalers are hunters. Not exactly a
fair contest between prey & predator! It's drawing a
very long bow to describe the situation in that way. Nor do I believe "scientific research" has anything to do with what the whalers in that Japanese "research" ship were actually doing. I've done numerous Google searches in vain attempts to discover the
findings of their supposed research. It is whale meat for the Japanese market, nothing more nothing less. A commercial enterprise.
So do continue what you've started, farmerman. Some of the best exchanges of information at A2K have been the result of diversions. This is a very interesting (& related) one. (Perhaps we should thank cjhsa for this? :wink: ) In any case, there's not much new to report from the Southern Ocean. Greenpeace has left for another region & is now focusing on a campaign to educate consumers about companies involved in profits from Japanese whaling enterprises. Not much new from Sea Shepherd, either. The Australian media has also grown quiet on whaling. So unless something out of the ordinary happens, I doubt there'll be much new to report till the next round of IWC (International Whaling Commission) hearings.