Yes, in Australia we kill and eat Kangaroo. Emu too. We’re up front and honest about it. We call it ‘farming’. What we don’t do is trespass in the sovereign territory of other countries to do it; we don’t hunt them down and slaughter them in national parks and other places of sanctuary; and we don’t insult the international community by trying to pass the practice off as ‘scientific research’. And for your further education, kangaroos exist in plague numbers in most areas. Are you seeing any points of major difference yet? Good on you RHCP!!

Inga please go buy a dictionary and look up terrorism, tradition & racism! I’ve never read that working to conserve & protect ecosystems and species equates to terrorism or racism or that tradition means something is right, Ted gives a reasonable explanation as to why! Namaste!

Inga don’t listen to them, you are right. It’s not racism, though, it’s cultural imperialism. Ted cites human rights violations rather than animal issues, of course the two are completely different – otherwise Hindus could come to the US and stop all cattle farming. The others don’t have any clue at all about the law – or the fact that the former head of the International Whaling Convention, whose code Japan is accused of breaking, Dr. Ray Gambell, has said:

I have to say at the outset that Japan is not doing anything illegal by catching the whales that it does and it is acting legally within the terms of the Convention that we operate.
One of the things that we are working on at the present time is inspection and
international observer programmes that will have oversight of any whaling which is under IWC control, to make sure that all regulations are followed covering areas such as size and species.