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18.05.2008
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Ha Haa.The whales get final revenge.Japanese suffocate in unused piles of whale meat.You reap what you sow indeed!

Posted by: Barbara Collins 2:43pm today

To all those people who argue that the killing of a whale in this manner is no different to the killing of a pig, a sheep or a cow for meat, you're clearly missing the point.Cows, pigs, sheep, etc. are FARMED for their meat.Conversely, you don't see whalers or their associates actively breeding and feeding whales to "plump them up" now do you?

Posted by: A. Noni Mus 2:42pm today

I'm glad this so called research opporation has finally been exposed for what it is. About time.

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  • Force to slash prices over unwanted whale meat
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JAPAN`s whalers are going broke and have been forced to slash prices because no one wants to eat their growing mountain of whale meat.

The farcical truth of Japan`s whaling industry was exposed yesterday by Japanese media reports that the Institute for Cetacean Research is struggling to repay $37 million in government subsidies.

The report came as Japanese embassy officials made a stern protest in Canberra over the Federal Government`s release of shocking whaling photographs.

The ICR, responsible for Japan`s lethal "research operation", is flooding Japan with cheap whale meat that it cannot sell, according to the reports in respected newspaper Asahi Shimbun.

Meat and other parts of whales killed during ICR "scientific research" in the Southern Ocean is sold to a private fisheries company Kyodo Senpaku, which manages the sale of whale meat in the Japanese market. But while ICR has consistently increased the number of whales it kills – by 30 per cent between 2005 and 2006 – there has been no rise in domestic demand for whale meat or products.

Greenpeace Australia Pacific whales campaign director Rob Nicholl said the losses were further proof that there was no market for whale meat in Japan.

"It`s standard economics. There is an oversupply. They`ve had to reduce the price but they still can`t get rid of the stuff," he said.

Japan has consistently argued a case for scientific whaling and last week accused the Government and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of "misleading" the public by releasing photographs of the slaughter of whales in the Southern Ocean.

A DFAT spokesman said, while the photographs were "disturbing, they were in no sense misleading".

 

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Ha Haa.The whales get final revenge.Japanese suffocate in unused piles of whale meat.You reap what you sow indeed!

Posted by: Barbara Collins 2:43pm today

To all those people who argue that the killing of a whale in this manner is no different to the killing of a pig, a sheep or a cow for meat, you're clearly missing the point.Cows, pigs, sheep, etc. are FARMED for their meat.Conversely, you don't see whalers or their associates actively breeding and feeding whales to "plump them up" now do you?

Posted by: A. Noni Mus 2:42pm today

I'm glad this so called research opporation has finally been exposed for what it is. About time.

Posted by: Jessica Cooke 2:41pm today
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