SEA SHEPHERD gets ready to fight Japan's whale hunters

The year is almost over, but the battle to end the killing of whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is just beginning!


https://my.seashepherd.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=722&srctid=1&erid=6787503


http://www.seashepherd.org/

 

I love and appreciate all of the hard work that Paul and his volunteers do to save the whales and have been donating to them for years. The whalers have left Japan late this season....I was almost hoping that they'd finally given up

 

Good to hear someone else is supporting them like me.
Love you for that Tarshi!
I don't know if this cruel tradition is ever gonna stop.
Just like what's going on in the cove of Taiji every year.
It breaks my heart

 

The senselessness of that practice, despite the other available employment, food and oil alternatives sickens me. Wish the team the best, because those "fishermen" (using the term loosely) can get violent.

 

whales are food

deal with it

:drinkers:

 

Extreme mercury levels revealed in whalemeat:

Tests on whalemeat on sale in Japan have revealed astonishing levels of mercury. While it has long been known that the animals accumulate heavy metals such as mercury in their tissues, the levels discovered have surprised even the experts.

Two of the 26 liver samples examined contained over 1970 micrograms of mercury per gram of liver. That is nearly 5000 times the Japanese government's limit for mercury contamination, 0.4 micrograms per gram.

At these concentrations, a 60-kilogram adult eating just 0.15 grams of liver would exceed the weekly mercury intake considered safe by the World Health Organization, say Tetsuya Endo, Koichi Haraguchi and Masakatsu Sakata at the University of Hokkaido, who carried out the research. "Acute intoxication could result from a single ingestion," they warn in a draft paper accepted for publication in The Science of the Total Environment.

The researchers call on the government to impose tighter regulations on the consumption of whale organs. In particular, they warn that pregnant women risk poisoning their unborn children. In the 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of children around Japan's Minamata Bay were born with horrific birth defects after their mothers ate seafood contaminated with mercury compounds, which had been poured raw into the bay since the 1930s. Thousands more suffered brain damage.


http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2362-extreme-mercury-levels-revealed-in-whalemeat.html

deal with it

 

Ignore the pecs, he's obviously bored and wanting to stir

Luckily I skim over his opinions and just focus on his headless nakedness

 

I know he is just trying to provoke, but I thought I'm still gonna dish out some facts here

 

u know i love u

:smt114

 

They're not being used for food, just for oil, to prevent them from eating tuna and other harvested fish and also for general bloodlust.

 

Bingo

 

Drop the knowledge on the shirtless one

 

Animal Planet renews ‘Whale Wars’ for season 6

Sea Shepherd leader, Paul Watson, is marshalling resources for the biggest campaign yet against Japanese Antarctic whaling.
Watson said that despite being without a passport and moving in secret, he intended to lead the campaign by 120 people on four ships this summer.

“We aim to stop them completely this time,” he told Fairfax. “They will be so financially in the hole that they can’t climb out.”

Sea Shepherd has been both criticized and praised for tactics of direct action sabotage which include throwing stink bombs of butyric acid, as well as ramming, boarding, and otherwise attempting to disable the Japanese vessels.


I know what they are doing is extremely dangerous but I actually really wish I could join them.

 

Visited the Sea Shepherd today and toured the Steve Irwin :mrgreen:

 

Awesome Tarshi :smt023

 

Yup, nice pics!