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Originally Posted by Joques
Ahem. The point of research whaling is not to perform science on the whale cadavers, but to gather data on populations .
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somewhat off topic, but our own government regularly gathers data on populations - its called a census. there's not a lot of mass slaughter involved.
it's normally quite easy to count things without killing them
& why do the Japanese want to know how many whales they hve not already killed , except for calculating how many more cat food tins they could turn them into...
THE, HAGUE – The U.N.’s top court on Monday ordered Japan to end its annual Antarctic whale hunt, saying in a landmark ruling that the program was a commercial activity disguised as science.
The judgment by the International Court of Justice in The Hague is binding, final and ineligible for appeal, forcing Japan to drastically change the whaling program it long claimed was for “scientific research.”
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In a March 31 ruling, the ICJ, the United Nation's highest court, ordered Japan to stop granting permits for whale hunts in the Antarctic. Japan has a long history of hunting whales and had been taking advantage of a loophole in a worldwide ban on whaling established in 1986; Japan chalked up its annual hunts for what it said were scientific and research purposes.
Whaling for profit is banned internationally,.....