http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minke_whale

If a whale is as smart as a human it would dive deep and get behind the boat get more air and dive deep again and continue to get away instead of just running away in one direction and getting harpooned. If you want to get real technical if a whale was as smart as human it would build its own harpoon gun to fire back the whalers. No one here has made one intelligent argument on how whales are as smart as humans and have yet to dispute the facts I have posted. The bottom line is that whales are not as smart as humans and the anti-whaling crowd have no logical arguments and instead spread lies and appeal to people's emotions.

"They obviously aren’t as smart as humans."

Show me a whale that voted for Obama.

See. Some of them are smarter.

Also what BS am I posting? Dispute a specific fact? Pretty tough when you know I'm right and your anti-whaling stance is based on emotion rather then logic.

I am hardly pro-whaling, I am more anti-anti-whalers. Sea Shepherd is a disgrace for reasons that Chickenhead points out above and I have pointed out in my postings.

"kill all of them"

"I’m sure I could do it so there must me someone out there who would. "

Silly Lemmy.

If that happened, the generally-harmless whale-hunter-chasing-on-the-high-seas fun would be over. The donations of cash and cool toys would stop. The warm glow of the TV cameras and their spotlights would get packed up and go away. Governments would take a closer look at how to limit their borderline-illegal actions.

They would be returned to their hippie roots… living in a tent on a forest edge and angrily pumping a "Save the Reticulated Three-toed Newt" sign for a disinterested photographer for the local paper.

And for that reason, all actions are planned, all events are staged and the entire situation is produced for maximum impact.

…and, without the constant publicity-fueled nuisance of the radical anti-whaling movement, the nationalism-based support for whaling in Japan might dry up and the whalers might find they are socially or politically limited from hunting so many profitable whales.

No, Lemmy, these two groups need each other to exist… and, while both sides will damage equipment to give their respective teams something to cheer about and build support, neither will do anything to put the other team out of action.

In the end, it is the whales that lose… and, sadly, it is the Armchair Whale Warriors(tm) that unwittingly enable it… even if their heart is in the right place.

Murder is illegal.

Then you could take the captured ship and ram it into the processing ship.

Why hasn't someone done that yet?

TRY USING FACTS NEW YORK TIMES.

If this is all about tradition and culture. RETURN to the traditional ways of whaling. None of this floating cannery stuff. It's a floating Iron warehouse and factory all rolled into one. If it had a smoke stack, you'd see the stereotypical dollar signs being puffed out of it.

Seriously.. I am Australian. I am Educated. I am against the mass deforrestation that is occuring not only in Australia, but around the world.

I am firmly of the belief that if the Japanese wish to turn this into a matter of Tradition and Culture, therefore making it a matter of Racism. Then they should act honourably also. If they wish to profess to be cultural and traditional and honourable, then act in such a manner.

Continue whaling. In the Traditional manner of their fore fathers.

Are they investing millions of dollars (or yen), into fertility, sustainability, breeding programs and such for whales? I think not. They take the word of a global commission that has no REAL way of tracking FACTUAL numbers of any ocean-borne species. They work off estimates.

My opinions and thoughts have no basis on tourism or happy, pretty cutesy whales or anything of the sort. I base my opinions, my thoughts and comments on Logic and FACT.

Show me the numbers, show me the effort to maintain, if not increase the numbers. Show me the Japanese intent to return to traditional methods of whaling.

If they're going to make the claim about racism, culture and tradition. Then back it up by conforming with it themselves, instead of using it as a poor facade to cover up a multi-million dollar industry. Which is all I honestly see it as.

I ask for proof of this research and scientific study that they allegedly conduct for this whaling.

Tradition, Culture, or the health of their own people?

We've heard the claims about mercury levels in the whale product. Show me some proof, show me evidence that it's there, and that consumption of these products is not harmful to the human body.

Show me life-cycles of whales. I know in parts of the world Cows, Horses, Dogs, Camels, Emu, Cats and all manner of creatures are eaten. Even here in Australia, Crocodile meat and Kangaroo meat is on the menu if people so desire.

However, I don't eat Kangaroo meat or Crocodile meat. Both are reproducing at an extraordinary rate. To the point where Culling has been neccessary for both at one time or another. But we don't have roving Cannerys on wheels to harvest and process these.

The cows, pigs and chickens we consume. Are Farmed. They are grown for that purpose. Not harvested from the wild where no truly accurate numbers can be gathered.

I stand firmly by my beliefs and my opinions. Based on FACT.. not Flights of Fantasy.