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Nihil

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2. Surely *that* can't be true ...

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Tue Aug 13, 2013, 12:01 PM

Aug 2013

> The research team, ... has been studying Gulf sperm whales by using a biopsy dart
> to collect a small skin and blubber sample from the animals. The cells are cultured
> on board the 93-foot Odyssey research vessel for further tests.

We've been assured by the Japanese and their dependants that "whale research vessels"
have to kill the entire whale in order to process it down to "food" ... er ... "analyse it" further.

Maybe the researchers here - who actually involve real scientists rather than just a mob of
government-funded slaughterers - should give some lessons to the Japanese, Norwegians,
Icelandics and other scum who only pretend to be "researching" whales?

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Ocean Alliance: Gulf sperm whales may be most polluted in the world [View all] Judi Lynn Aug 2013 OP

k or the whales. I hate what has been done to the Gulf.nt Mojorabbit Aug 2013 #1

Surely *that* can't be true ... Nihil Aug 2013 #2