Japanese whaling ends!

Wow, I can barely believe it. For as long as I can remember down here in Australia and New Zealand, the Japanese whaling fleet has come down to the southern oceans to hunt whales. For as long as I can remember it's been common knowledge down here that this whaling wasn't in any way "research", but a simple slaughter for food. Anyone with any common sense could see this, and it was bewildering to all how nobody else in the world seemed to realise this. For years there's been protest ships intercepting the whaling fleet to try and thwart their efforts and stop the killing, and for years the gov stood by and gave little more than rhetoric.

This case was started by the Rudd gov the other year after a swell of protest from Australians at the slaughter going on in the southern oceans and for the gov to FFS do something about it. It's just concluded, with a decision that can't be appealed. All Japanese whaling must end immediately.

It's like the end of an era. Why did it take so long for common sense to prevail? All these years to come up with a decision that we could have told them decades ago.

 

Here's the "research" vessels in action, on one of the last kills now ever to happen by the Japanese whaling fleet: