Iceland buried at a dump 179 tonnes whale meet
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effective | January 24, 2007 at 05:20 am
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Greenpeace has discovered in Iceland an huge amount of the whale meat from the recent hunt has not been used. Nearly 200 tonnes of meat and blubber - a vast proportion of the total yield - are sitting elsewhere in storage waiting to be tested for chemical contamination. Other 179 tonnes of bones and entrails have been buried at a landfill and left to rot.
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at 00:55 on January 27th, 2007
Iceland is very vulnerable to World opinion - its economy is tiny and fragile - what better country to target using the power of the Internet to good effect?
I strongly advocate people use the Internet to pressure every Icelandic business. As a person in the New Zealand Tourism industry I have so done and it is clear many in Iceland realise that once the Icelandic economy and businesses are subject to intense, co-ordinated pressure they may better understand how the whales must feel as their sides split open and their guts is destroyed by exploding harpoon heads. Fact fact fact!
Sadly many of the more enlightened in Iceland stand to be badly damaged by the World community acting in this fashion but I would strongly suggest they influence their Government and the renegade elements before the co-ordinated attack on Iceland begins. It will happen!
Japan has an economy which can withstand opposition to whaling, not so the smaller nations! The only way forward for whaling opponents is to adopt one of the strategies of the whalers - they often kill the whale calf so the circling distraught mother whale won't escape. Similarly we must target the under-belly of Japan - those little, vulnerable nations who are offering Japan and other whaling nations, support. Just as the whale guts is destroyed by exploding harpoons the public can, in a concerted effort, rip the guts out of the flimsy support base the whaling nations have! In the final analysis the Internet will be far more damaging than any exploding harpoon!
Now to the job in hand - rally the troops, sound the bugle there is no doubt public opinion can be decisive - our only problem is, have we the time before the last of the great whales ends up in some high class Japanese restaurant as a slab of meat!
Okay people I challenge you now to act and not find some flimsy excuse to justify inaction!