Japanese Whalers Get Stinkbombed by Environmentalists
Too Bad the The Bombs only Stink
…Japan kills hundreds of whales a year in the name of research despite an international moratorium on commercial whaling.
Tokyo makes no secret of the fact that the meat ends up on dinner tables and accuses Westerners of insensitivity to its whaling culture.
For the past four years Watson has led a Sea Shepherd vessel trying to impede the whaling ships during their hunting season.
Paul Watson, the captain of the activists’ ship claimed earlier this year that his ship’s hounding of the Japanese whalers last season had saved the lives of 500 of the giant mammals.
But the activists’ repeated attacks have led Japan to label them as “terrorists.”
After an earlier attempt to pelt a Japanese harpoon boat with stink bombs, Watson told AFP on Monday that the activists would continue trying to hamper the whalers.
“We will just harass them, blockade them, do everything to prevent them from resuming whaling,” he said at the time.
“Most likely they will run and we will chase and they’ll run and we’ll chase and that’s fine. As long as they are running they are not killing whales.”
Some Japanese seem to think that whalemeat will somehow improve their needle-size pricks. Sorry dudes, it ain’t true. Try a penis pump.