CJ I'm pretty sure the Minke's are nowhere near endangered. That Japs are taking about 1000 every year. No idea what the maximum sustainable yield would be, but it would be something worthwhile.

StG, the racism comes in because Greenpeace does not target animals that 'good clean white folk' torture and kill. They are not encessarily promoting racism, but they are taking advantage of it. If it was Tasmanians rather than Japs killing the whales, don't you think we'd all be a bit more open minded about it?

"If it was Tasmanians rather than Japs killing the whales, don't you think we'd all be a bit more open minded about it?"

No.

Please. Racism. Sigh.

"...Greenpeace does not target animals that 'good clean white folk' torture and kill."

That's just plain old unresearched wrong. Any more wrong and it would be in the dictionary as an example of 'wrong'.

Just to save you the effort of disagreeing.

Google, "harp seal hunt canada greenpeace".

Blah.

The harp seal thing is not evidence that Greenpeace is not taking advantage of racism. There are plenty of local issues committed by white people. Greenpeace doesn't shove it in our face like they do with whaling because we feel more comfortable condemning the Japs. They also don't shove the harp seal issue in our face.

I think it's funny we are upset at the Japs because they say it's for scientific research. The Norwegians just refused to sign the treaty 'cause they said they just want to eat whales.

I think Australians rather someone tell us to piss off up front, rather than pretend to agree and just do what they want anyway. Or maybe we just hate slanty eyed people...

Hey I just read there are 500,000 minke whales and the Japanese only killed 1000 of them last year. Plus we were killing whales at the same rate in the 60s. Also the Blue whale is endangered, and the minke whale is a competitor for the same foods as the Blue whale

Make up your mind Freediver.

You said;

"...Greenpeace does not target animals that 'good clean white folk' torture and kill."

Now you're saying;

"There are plenty of local issues committed by white people."

To coin a phrase from Rove Mcmanus...."what the?"

It's not Greenpeace that shoves the issue of whaling and not the issue seals "in your face". It's the media. I talked to a young chick at a Greenpeace 'beg for funds stand' at the shopping centre recently. Whales were on the list of topics, so was global warming, DU, GE food, ECO-forestry, Seals, global peace, deep sea destruction etc etc etc

OK if you want to be pedantic about it I'll rephrase for you:

Greenpeace does not target animals that 'good clean white Australians' torture and kill.

Happy now?

Of course, sealing is a big money spinner in the US because it finally gives them some moral issue they can feel superior to the canucks on.

Greenpeace is cutting back on the whaling issue because they have been called out on it in the mainstream press. They picked up on the change in the air and jumped off just as the government decided to jump on the bandwagon. In years past when people didn't question why whaling was so bad (it's the Japs of course...) I would often see greenpeace fundraisers on a busy footpath with a big whale picture, a money box and a cute girl with something no-one actually reads printed across her chest asking for money to fight the Japs.

Er, I mean save the whales. From the Japs.