It has recently been announced that the Japanese government has decided to start killing humpback whales for ‘scientific’ research.
Of course nobody with more than half a brain cell really believes that any kind of serious research takes place with the whales that Japan catches. Ignoring all the other whales than Japan catches, what kind of research needs fifty humpbacks?
The truth is that the Japanese government is lying through it’s teeth when it claims that their whaling boats are slaughtering whales for scientific research. It is really just commercial whaling by another name. Which of course is banned by international treaty.
Strangely the Japanese government has to publicise the ‘benefits’ of torturing whales to death for food because there is not as much demand for whale meat as their existing ‘scientific’ research supplies. So why do they need to add humpback whales to the larder ? Seems that Japanese politicians can give politicians everywhere a good challenge when it comes to knuckle-dragging stupidity.
The Japanese government has labelled those who protest against the hunting of whales ‘environmental terrorists’ which is a bit rich considering the protesters do not try to kill anyone! But if we’re going to start splattering the ‘terrorist’ label around wildly, the phrase ‘environmental terrorists’ works quite well for the Japanese government.