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groundloop

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10. Exactly. There needs to be strong sanctions against Japan until they stop.

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #9)

Fri Sep 19, 2014, 11:25 AM

Sep 2014

It would be one thing if in fact they were doing actual research which would in some way benefit the whale populations or the oceans, but they're not. It's nothing more than a commercial whale harvest. The rest of the civilized world needs to boycott Japanese goods until they come in line with international law.

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Japan vows to keep on whaling, calls resolution against its hunt "regrettable" [View all] Judi Lynn Sep 2014 OP

The Sea Shepard must be happy sakabatou Sep 2014 #1

Yep shenmue Sep 2014 #2

anyone who values oceanic wildlife is happy -eom Justitia Sep 2014 #3

a new season for Sea Shepard MFM008 Sep 2014 #4

I don't understand this yuiyoshida Sep 2014 #5

Let me know when they stop murdering dolphins. L0oniX Sep 2014 #8

I'm sympathetic to the Native American groups who want to hunt in a canoe with a hand-thrown harpoon Recursion Sep 2014 #6

...and they also keep murdering dolphins. L0oniX Sep 2014 #7

Japan lies when they call it "scientific whaling". ships are canning factories, that rape the seas Sunlei Sep 2014 #9

Exactly. There needs to be strong sanctions against Japan until they stop. groundloop Sep 2014 #10

Japan will not even share dna with 'real' whale research groups. Every whale is known & DNAed. Sunlei Sep 2014 #11

I wonder if boycott would work? ozone_man Sep 2014 #12