Animal rights organizations claim Japan is corrupting the Whaling Commission

Monday, July 18th 2011 - 10:04 UTC

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Animal rights organizations claim Japan has been handing out generous grants to African, Caribbean and Pacific countries to support turning the International Whaling Commission into a “toothless paper tiger” undermining the whaling-moratorium. Read full article

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briton
In this day and age, japan should be ashamed of herself to do what she is doing,
the senseless killing and slaughter , the greed never surprises us,
And where is the rest of the world in all this,
[Head in the sand springs to mind]
Jul 18th, 2011 - 07:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Japan IS corrupting the Whaling Commission.

It views it as a constraint-of-trade organisation and does all it can to circumvent its conservation arrangements. A different philosophy and outlook.

It has been like this all my life since the inception of the IWC.
Jul 20th, 2011 - 08:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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