New Zealand company, Sealord, associated with whaling!

[Jean]

Plus there'a the traditional Faroese "grindarap" or "Grind" a pilot whale hunt, where the whales are herded into shallow water and butchered (i mean that literally ).

see

www.campaign-whale.clara.net/issues/faroe.html

J

 

[main_board]

Wow...I don't even know what to say...

Pensively yours...

 

[erich orser]

I personally do not support whaling, but I do feel that tell the Japanese that "whaling is wrong" is not going to work. Whaling is not about all about food, it's also a part of their culture and telling that their culture us wrong is like smacking them right in the face.

There must be a balance between perserving traditions and saving the whales, right?

The truth is, most of the people in Japan who are pro-whaling tend to be part of a rural or aging population. The industry there has been desperately trying to target a newer, younger demographic who did not grow up with whale meat, unlike the older population who ate a lot of whale when it was cheaper and plentiful during the postwar reconstruction. The attempts to repopularize whaling have met with mixed results. On Okinawa, for instance, most of the young people prefer Big Macs (possibly why that generation has the highest obesity rate for their age group among Japanese).

 

[chrono_war01]

The truth is, most of the people in Japan who are pro-whaling tend to be part of a rural or aging population. The industry there has been desperately trying to target a newer, younger demographic who did not grow up with whale meat, unlike the older population who ate a lot of whale when it was cheaper and plentiful during the postwar reconstruction. The attempts to repopularize whaling have met with mixed results. On Okinawa, for instance, most of the young people prefer Big Macs (possibly why that generation has the highest obesity rate for their age group among Japanese).

Recently, there were some whale meat promotional activities and it is said that you could get canned whale meat at a museum of natural history or the aquarium..can't remember, but it's a museum of some sort. I've heard that whale tastes like beef,but I wouldn't want to know its taste in the first place.

 

[Tintenfisch]

... because one of it's major shareholders is involved...
... disassociate itself from it's Japanese partner Nissui because of it's involvement in Japan's controversial scientific whaling programme ...

And to add insult to injury... sorry, I realize that's missing the point a bit, but COME ON...

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Sealord's partner drops ownership of whaling company
01 April 2006

The date is an unusual one (I doubt that this is any prank), but for the full story see here

"Nissui, 50 per cent owner of Nelson-based Sealord, has announced it will withdraw from its ownership of a Japanese whaling company and intends to stop its canning and sale of whale meat in Japan.

Sealord chief executive Doug McKay welcomed the decision and called the announcement a positive step.

The announcement was made in the wake of conflict in the Southern Ocean between Japanese whaling companies and anti-whaling protesters."

.... and there's more in the link

 

[TPOTH]

*impressed*

Well that shut me up....

TPTH

 

[rvangeld]

Well I found this great article and its been on the news here in Aus. It looks as though there has been a re-evaluation of the whale meat industry. The younger generation in Japan dont seem to like their whale meat....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10376170

 

[TPOTH]

Well I found this great article and its been on the news here in Aus. It looks as though there has been a re-evaluation of the whale meat industry. The younger generation in Japan dont seem to like their whale meat....

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10376170

TPTH

 

[bigGdelta]

love that web comic

 

[mosogama]

Excellent.....

 

[myopsida]

"Five Japanese private companies have quit the whaling business. One of the private firms that is dumping its shares is a huge Japanese fishing company called Nissui.

The firms said they will transfer their shares in the country's largest whaling fleet to public interest corporations.

The new shareholders will include the Japanese government agency that promotes whaling.

The Japanese fleet will continue to hunt for whales.

Japan insists that efforts to hunt whales will be redoubled. From now on, whaling will be seen as something backed by the whole of Japan, not just private firms, an official said."

"This is an important milestone as we continue our work to end whaling once and for all," said an oceans specialist with activist group Greenpeace. "

Yeah - right.

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[myopsida]

Ummm...hello? Steve? hello? Stevey? Helloooo?Well that seemed to kill that thread...did I say something? (again?)

 

[myopsida]

The Japanese have this culture of saving face, but in the case in point, this changing of the deck chairs on the whaling fleet changes very little in real terms. That is increasing numbers of whales are going to die for commercial purposes under the thin guise of unneeded, unwanted and spurious research. Worse still the Japanese have already targeted protected and endangered species and intend killing 50 Humpback & 50 Fin whales on their next series of whaling trips.

Japanese scientific whaling has been supplying around 1 000- 2 000 tonnes of whale products from captured minke whales Balaenoptera acutorostrata and Balaenoptera bonaerensis annually as a "by-product" which, in fact, subsidizes in part the scientific whaling operation. This is currently the main source where new whale products from species covered by the IWC moratorium could be added to the commercial market in Japan (another possible source is those whales taken incidentally, such as entangled in trap nets, or stranded).

Nissui , along with the other shareholders in the company "Kyodo Senpaku", has given away its shares. The 24th March press release from Kyodo Senpaku release includes: "the shares of our company will be transferred to several public-interest corporations including the ICR, so that the share ownership will better reflect our activities". The ICR is the Japanese Research Institute that chartered Kyodo Senpaku's Ships and crews to carry out whaling

"Under the new regime, Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha, Ltd are committed to redouble thier efforts so that they can better contribute to the further development of the research and promoting sustainable utilization of whale resources"

The Institute of Cetacean Research was founded in 1987 as a zaidan hojin - a non-profit organisation funded by donations. Start-up costs were met by Kyodo Senpaku (about 1,250 mil. yen; $9.6 mil.)

So Japanese Whaling Companies play semantics with ownership and everyone rolls over and claims "victory" for the environmentalists and there's no further discussion???

Hello?
Give me strength

 

[Steve O'Shea]

Ummm...hello? Steve? hello? Stevey? Helloooo?Well that seemed to kill that thread...did I say something? (again?)

Howdo M; no, I've just been busting foofoo on too many things, and didn't quite know how to respond to yours - other than beat you round the head with a sock full of rotten fish ).

See you next week; I'll be down.
O