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by doall
2943 days ago
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I stated a precondition, "if the company is obeying the laws and it's just an emotional thing". So if that precondition is not true as you might consider, then your claim 'So the "not your business" claim is incorrect here' is incorrect. |
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in Antarctic waters
But is more complicated than that. Maybe you don't know that In 1994 the IWC (International Whaling Commission) created the SOWS (Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary). The countries in the IWC decided to forbid commercial whaling in those waters. Those are the summer feeding fields needed for a big percentage of the extant populations of big cetaceans to survive. Whales need to feed almost continuously without being disturbed in summer because they will fast later for several months when breeding. A zero catch quota for minke whales was stablished, only allowing to kill a small number for scientific purposes.
On March 2014 the International Court of Justice agreed with Australia that the number of Japanese scientific research publications were not proportionate to the number of animals killed (and sold as meat in the japanese market)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Ocean_Whale_Sanctuary
"The research conducted in the Antarctic over the last two decades under Article VIII of the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling has involved the killing of nearly 10000 minke whales and 13 fin whales. The majority of the IWC's Scientific Committee, and the Commission itself, have repeatedly said that this "scientific whaling" has contributed little or nothing either to information needed for proper management of any renewed whaling under Article V of the ICRW or to better scientific knowledge about whales in general. In particular, reviews carried out by the Scientific Committee have shown unequivocally that the JARPA (Japanese Whale Research Program under special permit in the Antarctic) programme has failed to attain any of its originally stated objectives"
Source: https://www.asoc.org/advocacy/antarctic-wildlife-conservatio...