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Whaling's Return

Newspaper current event by willwaddell on 20 June 2006, tagged as aquatics

Whaling, a practice that has been banned for twenty years, may be seeing a return to acceptance. On Sunday, the International Whaling Commission voted 33 - 32 to legalize whaling. The vote did not muster the necessary three-quarters majority required to overturn the ban, but it did demonstrate a decided change in flavor for the commission now that 'pro-whaling nations are in the majority.' Some nations, like Japan, view the 1986 ban on whaling as a temporary measure and argue that it is no longer necessary. Others believe the new membership dynamics will lead the organization away from whale conservation and fear that Japan, in particular, may be using financial aid to secure pro-whaling votes from small African, Caribbean and Pacific countries.

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Patrick Stewart? by Bortnyk :: NR6

There she blows, with a hump like a snow hill, it's another blow to the green party!

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Not Just Big Fish by LordDilly :: NR8

There is nothing derived from a whale that cannot be produced synthetically. Maybe I'm hypocritical somehow about this issue, but it bothers me tremendously that people want to hunt creatures that may very well be almost as intelligent as us and almost certainly sentient on top of that. Cows are dumb, so I have no problem eating them. Maybe that's silly, but that's just how I roll. I liken it to killing and eating Great Apes- it's like eating your distant cousin. I can't really justify my position any better than that, but it feels very very wrong- almost Evil.

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