"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?"

Ecstatic. What animals are you referring too?

I'll confess, I'm curious as to what threatened species Australians do torture and kill.

As for the whale populations, the point I'd make in response is that it took international opinion to get whale populations back from dangerously low levels.

Even if a single country harvesting whales is sustainable, it seems a little unfair that Japan jumps in there when the vast majority of other nations have agreed not to, Norway excepted.

And Greenpeace does object to Norwegian whaling quite strenously in Europe. We don't hear it so loudly here, because Japan is more relevant.

Norwegians are quite WASPish. I don't think the racism argument holds much water. I don't think Australians on the whole are racist to Japan.

I am also skeptical as to the sustainability of Japans whaling claims.

As far as the cultural arguments go, I hardly think taking a sophisticated whaling vessel to the oceans around Australia is a time-honoured tradition.

I once ate whale meat in Norway, but long before I shouldn't have. Good tucker. Never eaten japanese though........They say there are plenty where they come from.

TRTL,

Just a minor correction if I may?

"I'll confess, I'm curious as to what threatened species Australians do torture and kill."

'Good clean WHITE Australians'.....but I'm pedantic.

"Ecstatic. What animals are you referring too?

Thank you for proving my point.

"Even if a single country harvesting whales is sustainable, it seems a little unfair that Japan jumps in there when the vast majority of other nations have agreed not to, Norway excepted.

There are many exceptions. Norway is just one. The fact that Australia is hamstrung by animal libbers need have no impact on Japan. The resource is there, underutilised.

"Norwegians are quite WASPish.

If only more Australians were racist towards them, Greenpeace could raise even more funds by attacking them.

"I am also skeptical as to the sustainability of Japans whaling claims.

At least you are thinking about it. That's a good start.

"As far as the cultural arguments go, I hardly think taking a sophisticated whaling vessel to the oceans around Australia is a time-honoured tradition.

Japan does not need any cultural arguments to support it's whaling. It is the hippies from Greenpeace that decided it is acceptable for 'indiginous' people to kill critically endangered animals while others in plague proportions should be protected.

"Thank you for proving my point."

Ummmm Rightio.

"It is the hippies from Greenpeace that decided it is acceptable for 'indiginous' people to kill critically endangered animals while others in plague proportions should be protected."

Hippies LMFAO. The Gummint may have had something to do with it too. I' sure you've got some facts to back up that statement....or any statement?....That was enlightening. Anyway, back to the Godless bible-basher-bashers.