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Japan sets sights on whaling activists
by Babel-Fish | August 20, 2008 at 09:26 pm
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Will three anti-whaling activists from the UK and US end up standing trial in Tokyo?Japan is attempting to press charges against activists for the first time since 2000, when protesters started harassing the Japanese whaling fleet in earnest.
Earlier this week Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department obtained arrest warrants for the three men: Daniel Bebawi from Nottingham, the UK, and Americans Jon Batchelor and Ralph Koo.
Police sources in Tokyo accuse the men - members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, an anti-whaling group - of approaching a Japanese whaling ship, the Kaiko Maru, and laying a rope in its path in an effort to foul its propeller in February last year.
The men are also alleged to have thrown smoke bombs onto the ship which started a fire.
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at 21:27 on August 20th, 2008
The problem is that whale meat is the traditional dish
at 18:17 on May 17th, 2009
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A DINAMARCA TEM RÓTULO DE SANGRIA E TERROR E SUAS ILHAS EXALAM SANGUE INOCENTE DE ANIMAIS INDEFESOS
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Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
A DINAMARCA NAO TOMA PROVIDENCIA E A BALEAÇAO CONTINUA NAS ILHAS FAROE DESTRUINDO PESSOAS E SERES MARINHOS.
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End Whale & Dolphin Slaughter in the Faroe Islands!
Target:Prime Minister Jannes Eidesgaard
Sponsored by: John Koehler
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Whales are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems. They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain. Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.
Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins. The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column. Next the main blood vessels are severed. The blood-stained bay is soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales.
The Faroese celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere of entertainment. Indoctrinated from an early age, children are often given a day off school to watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses of slaughtered whales.
Every year around 2,000 whales are driven ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between the Shetland Islands and Iceland. For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it is known.
Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness. By slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North Atlantic and the North Sea.
The drive hunt is a practice abandoned elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states. The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
According to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin; and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
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VERGOGNA alle FAROE!!! Diffondere...
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WARNING: Do not eat whale meat
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Verdade: VEJA QUE GALERIA:
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RETRATO DA DINAMARCA - ILHAS FAROÉ - CHAMAM ISSO DE SER HUMANO? ESTOU VENDO PSICOPATAS-Nature - Grindadráp í Syðragøtu, august 2006/Mynd: Janus Hansen
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Verdade: MISERÁVEIS, ESTÚPIDOS, ASSASSINOS, PSICOPATAS, ABOMINÁVEIS, INSENSATOS, DESTRUIDORES, INDIVIDUOS DE ALTA PERICULOSIDADE...IRREPARÁVEIS E INSIGNIFICANTES!
MIRIAM GODET: APENAS INSIRA SEU E-MAIL E FAÇA UMA GRANDE AÇÃO - MASSACRE DAS BALEIAS -www.beppegrillo.it/iniziative/whalesmassacre/
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* Perfil: www.flickr.com/people/9183672/
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WHALES MASSACRE:
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