This is the most disgusting footage of whales and Dolphins getting slaughtered it makes me sick. Go to these websites and show your support so this slaughtering stops happening. Thank you

www.mindsinthewater.com

www.surfersforcetaceans.com

seashepherd.org/

savedolphins.eii.org/campaigns/sjd/

Ben

For anyone concerned about this then I suggest you throw your support behind the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (seashepherd.org/), they were in Antarctica last year taking it up to both the japanese catcher ships and the factory ship, and they saved a substantial number of whales from the harpoons. They will be back again this year.

For those that don't know, the japanese are planning to extend their catch from Minke whales to the larger and more endangered Humpback and Fin whales this summer - possibly the very same humpbacks that migrate along the Aussie coast each year.

Sea Shepherd have drawn a line in the sand this year at this plan to target humpbacks. The time for peaceful protesting is over - if even one humpback is taken, then Sea Shepherd plan to ram both the catcher ships and the factory ship with the concrete reinforced bow of their pursuit ship the Robert Hunter, and sink or disable them. They have used this tactic before on the driftnetters and were part of getting that industry shut down.

If you are like me, and have seen Humpbacks up close, then the thought of these jap morons shooting them up for no good reason is enough to make the blood boil. Even if you haven't seen them, the planet is under enough pressure without taking some more iconic megafauna out of the picture.

Give the Shepherd some coin, help ram a whaling ship this summer, so you can kite with a humpback whale in years to come.

Andy

Whats needed is to educate these prick$ that eating whales, tigers and rino horns is not going to increase virility!

One of the most shocking things I have seen for a while was the harvesting of shark fins! Once the fins are removed from the sharks then the 'fishermen' throw the live sharks back into the water to drown.

Utterly disgusting!

There are pleanty of worse things happening around the world, and here in Australia. Why are dolphins / whales any more important? let them follow their cultural traditions and eat a few I say[}:)]

Good on you Ben!
Disgusting is right. We're in the middle of the Humpback migration here in south NSW, the thought of the whales swimming all that way to give birth, then swimming back for a feed only to possibly be harpooned by the Japanese "scientific" whaling is sad.

roder makes a valid point though, IMO, we humans are up to a lot of terrible stuff around the world all the time, your new deck or outdoor furniture was probably an orangutans home, Tassie foresters routinely poison the wildlife, wheat sheep and cows are turning Oz into a salty dustbowl etc etc.
Doesn't make Whale or dolphin slaughter any more right. And the Japanese do such good work with Tofu!

Had the chance to see what is inside the heart of these great mammals one flat day at cylinder beach stradbroke island when a baby humpback was playing close to the shorebreak i borrowed a mates - John Flynn's - ski-board and carefully paddled closer
until almost 10 feet away , i waited anxiously because of the size of even a baby humpback is huge compared to human but with the tide and languishing movements we came face to face - a giant eye with the reflection of myself looking into a big almost camera lens eye- as i studied this new animal which was so easy to be acquainted with i could see in the movements and gestures that i was not that unwelcome and began stroking and talking to her or him . At least 3 minutes passed by with rolling to the side to show the awesome beak and smiling same as my dog brutus does and then from out the back the mother sprays and the youngster flipped away from me back to her safety.
It shocks me to think any race could turn our oceans into an abbatoir for human's to chew blubber .

It's not bad enough that they hunt and murder these defenceless creatures, but they also harvest their only food source, krill, to be used for domestic stock. The take quota has just been given a hefty increase. So logically, don't worry about whales dying at the point of the harpoon, because these parasites(fishermen and government agencies) will starve them and every other krill eating Antarctic creature out of existence. Truly the undisputed rapists of the Pacific and most other oceans.

sir ROWDY said...
p.s. i am not against killing for research purposes however i do support trying to do it with as little harm to the animal as possible.

Rowdy/assmaster,
It's obvious you're not the sharpest tool in the shed, I can tell you tried to make a point here, I just can't tell what it is. Care to elaborate? Killing "with as little harm to the animal as possible"?
In case you were not aware, the Japanese are exploiting a loophole in the IWC's statutes that states unlimited numbers of whales may be caught for research purposes.
www.sciencealert.com/features/20070708-16171.html

you friggin cockroach call back into your hiding spot .The world's as it is has decimated many - species of whale's which has been more than 30 complete specie in 100years ---- lost completely . hope your rabbit fur keeps you warm while you chew the last piece of blubber fat in your cave surrounded by Al-qeda door to door sales
men. tobes get your facts straight before blungeoning in and making a fool of yourself.

turdhead

ok tobes go for it

Do you know how many kangaroos Australians cull every year? No? Me either...but I reckon if you google it and find out, it'll be a s***load.

Japanese obviously have the same level of empathy for their favourite seafood as we do for our national emblem.

I once knew a family of cows. They all had unique personalities, they knew who they were related to; mothers, brothers and sisters, and when one of their own die they hang around the carcass for days, moping and grieving.

What's for dinner tonight. Rump steak!

Kangaroos are culled because there are WAY too many of them. They are in riduculous numbers and the reason for the culling is well justified.
Sure the cruelty of the deaths has something to do about it. But it is more to do with the dolphins being removed at an unsustainable rate. Along with the sharks etc. It takes a long time for these animals to breed, and our fishing now, if stopped, is still going to be effecting stuff 20years from now.
Cows are not going extinct. If the countries killing them set up a farm, and are not removing the naturally living one (didnt know another word, i mean not taking ones from the ocean) and take them from a controlled source in a BIG net, sure let em go. But taking them out like this cant be kept up, whether its good for the japs or not.

there is just about nothing anyone can do about this as bad as that sounds. the population as a whole donates money to many funds but these funds never go to the people or the cause in which we all perceive. I bet you did not know but our sponsorship to the millions of starving children/adults around the world is used to buy the food/clothing and then reaches the marine docks ready to be delivered to the people only to be pushed off the docks as the government does not want to help them. This apply's to many sponsorship/donation style handouts. If we want to make a difference go straight to the leader, as an individual.

I am not against sponsorship, but to make a difference do it yourself from start to finish, now that shows commitment to something you truly believe in....

pearl said...

youngbull said...
We do need to clean up our own back yard (Australia) as well. If we protest the killing of whales and dolphins in other cultures, we need to look what is happening at home. For e.g. Australia still 'traditionally' hunts the endangered dugong, even though it's becoming somewhat more restricted in certain areas.
www.abc.net.au/indigenous/

I spoke to a bloke in sharkbay about this, and traditionally means they can use guns ect. The same problems is also arising with endangered species of birds. Sure let them hunt using tradtional methods. eg a spear or boomerang.

Uncle Rico said...

For the record, I find the racial slurs in this thread pretty disgusting.

By the way, Australia takes the cake in the Greenhouse gas emissions per capita, so before you start firing off you sh1t cannons that every Japanese person has no respect for the environment, just remember that YOU are pumping approximately 3 times the amount of planet killing gas into the atmosphere than any single person in Japan.

Think outside the square, what we do in our daily lives is doing WAY more harm than a few whale killings.

I saw a clip of that hot cheerleader from Heroes heading all the way to Japan from LA, burning 1000's of gallons of jet fuel to try and save 20 dolphins from being killed.

Gimme a break.

What "racial slurs" ????

I read all the posts again ,and I can't find any "racial slurs"

If you mean the comments about Japs killing and/or eating whales and Dolphins,well,thats just telling the truth !

If someone said that Japs are cruel and sadistic,and insensitive to the feelings of civilised people,that could be construed to be a "slur"
but no one did,did they ??