Gorton's Seafood = Whaling

Ocean Defenders:

"Ask Gorton's to help stop whaling

With total annual sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars, Gorton's is the market leader in frozen seafood products in the US. The company even invented the McDonald's Filet-O-Fish burger. Its products are sold at grocery stores across the US.

In 2001 Gorton's was sold to its current owner, Nissui USA, for US$175 million. Nissui USA is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Nissui, Japan's second-largest marine products firm, which is a major shareholder of the company that owns Japan's whaling fleet.

Send a message to Gorton's CEO Steve Warhover asking him to persuade Gortons' parent company, Nissui, to bring the hunting of whales to a permanent end."

A little action can go a long way.

Please go here and make your voice known:
Ask Gorton's to help stop whaling

You and I can do something!

Gary Schmidt

Japan Planning On A War

Japan 'warship plan' to guard whaling fleet - National - theage.com.au: "anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd claims Japan may be sending a warship to the Southern Ocean to protect its whaling fleet from interference."

There's a bright move, start a war!

It won't stop Sea Shepherd or Greenpeace from trying to stop the Japanese from whaling.

Gary Schmidt

In More Detail... Full Color Vision

Underwater Times | Japanese Whalers, Greenpeace in Square Off in Ocean Battle Over Whales: "Japanese whaling fleet and Greenpeace environmental activists are involved in a stand-off in the remote Southern Ocean near the coast of Antarctica with the two sides accusing each other of ramming their vessels."

Here's an article that shows some of the particulars about the Whalers and Greenpeace arguing about "who hit who" and "what's what" about the collision(s) that have been going on between the two.

This was so fascinating I had to post it

Gary

Greenpeace Goes Full Contact

Greenpeace defends anti-whaling tactics - Breaking News - National - Breaking News:

"Greenpeace said it welcomed any scrutiny of tactics, including incidents in which a Greenpeace ship and a whaler were involved in a minor collision.

The Japanese whaling industry's Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) said its crews were documenting the behaviour of Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic Sunrise, claiming serious violations of maritime laws."

ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!

This is so dumb, what basis does Japan really have!

What makes them think that they have so much power or a good enough reason to do what they are and get away with it?

First off, the whaling that they are doing - which they call 'research whaling' - is not needed at all. The major scientific community organizations have said repeatedly before to Japan that the intended 'research' and whaling that they do is not needed. Plus, they won't learn anything new from it really. Also, it might be understood that Japan has an alternate motive for its so-called 'research' whaling and that is because Japan has a big market for whale meat.

Also any of the governing bodies for the control of international whaling such as the IWC or any of the others don't have a means of patrolling and controlling whaling, even though there has been a moratorium on whaling for the past several decades!

Greenpeace and some other organizations closely associated with Greenpeace are the only organizational bodies that are willing and able to patrol the seas and help put an end to unnecessary whaling, which is exactly what Japan is doing!!

If Japan were so concerned with abiding to International Maritime Laws, shouldn't they also be concerned with the laws established by the International Whaling Commission too on the preservation of the whale populations - which are practically on the verge of extinction!

Isn't the preservation of a species of greater worth than worrying about a scratch on a boat!!

NO JAPAN, you cannot pass the blame!! If you weren't out there whaling there wouldn't have been a situation anyways!

Get your priorities straight Japan....

I do not think that Greenpeace was in the wrong, but then again I probably don't know all the specifics about maritime law anyway to make an accurate judgement based solely on that...

Gary Schmidt

Big Bad (Yet, Pathetic) Japan

The Advertiser: Whaling is butchery - Brown [27dec05]: "GREENS leader Bob Brown has accused Japanese whalers of being D-grade butchers masquerading as scientists."

This is a rather interesting article that totally disses the Japanese "scientific" whaling program.

It also mentions the Grade-A courage of the Greenpeace protestors trying to stop Japanese whaling.

A good article!

Gary