Comments on: Australian Anti-Whaling Video “Aimed at Japanese Children”

By: samuel welsh

samuel welsh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:29:17 +0000

But research and consumption should be made clear though

By: samuel welsh

samuel welsh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 02:27:16 +0000

Its a hard one.
I belive a limited form of whaling can ballance it out .
Inuits have thier craft food and culture based on whales the japanese are similar
with festive,story,song ,poems and meals made from them as far back as 940 ad.
As long as whales in the pacific can roam for tourism and live freely
who should not have any conflict.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:44:55 +0000

Protesting against Whaling is not “Japan-Bashing”. Some of the protestors may have mixed or dishonest motives, but Japan, the nation, is bigger than a single industry and criticism of a specific industry (whether the critcism is justified or not) is NOT “bashing” an entire people.
Adults should be able to have a debate about a specific industry without lowering it to the level of nationalistic animosity. Elements in the Japanse Whaling industry have descended into some very grubby “bashing” of ALL Australians because their little industry is being criticised. Not good enough.

By: James

James — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:50:28 +0000

Please read the rules of this site and be aware that comments that contain childish name-calling will be deleted. I’m really getting tired of deleting dozens of comments from anti-whaling commenters who can’t make an argument without having a tantrum and lashing out with personal insults or racist statements.

It would also do your cause a favor if you actually checked your facts before pointing out the “ignorance” of others:

“Today it is estimated to be around 10,000 Humpbacks in the oceans according to the International Whaling Commission, with rates of increase of about 7% being reported for the eastern North Pacific from 1990-2002.

The amount is increasing daily due to better conservation and at the moment the estimated increase is 10% – 14% per year.”

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1453950 [from the NZ press, which is very much against whaling]

By: MTV

MTV — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 04:36:26 +0000

“They are allowed to hunt only the types of whales which are increasing their number.”

Humpback whales are on the DECREASE you moron. Why don’t you do a little wide reading and look at something other than your Japanese-Government-funded newspaper. Your ignorance has even the Americans laughing at you.

Not a great video by any means, but the message rings true.

By: whoismikejones

whoismikejones — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:49:47 +0000

I think you all miss the point.

So what if the video is not exciting, entertaining and interesting to watch?

It’s message is quite clear.

Stop killing whales for food under the pretext of scientific research.

Why do you japanese crave whale meat? Why can’t you just not eat whale and substitute fish instead? Is it really that hard?

Whales are extremely important creatures in the ocean ecosystem and eating them to satisfy your stomach is self-centered and wrong.

Also stop lying about scientific research.

Everyone can see through that bullshit.

By: Klauscore

Klauscore — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:22:48 +0000

Sorry, the argument that whales must be killed in order to preserve fish-stocks is false. There is no scientific evidence for it, and, guess what, most baleen whales hunted by the “scientific” (yeah, right) whaling program of the Japanese eat mostly krill (crustaceans), not fish.

So, a somewhat poor video, but a good message.

By: GI Korea

GI Korea — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:18:30 +0000

I think you are right that this is a ploy by Turnbull. He is under fire for rolling over on the Gunns lumber mill in Tasmania so he can now change the subject by bashing the Japanese over whaling. The Greens in Australia are always bashing the Japanese over whaling and this is just a way for Turnbull to get back in their good graces.

By: John

John — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:52:31 +0000

I think Associated Press must have just made up that “aimed at Japanese children” bit. Maybe they just made the very out-dated assumption that because it’s youtube, it must be aimed at kids. The video is just a government electioneering promo about what it’s doing to stop whaling, and how they’re really in touch with what kids think about the issue, and all that. It doesn’t seem to be even pretending to be anything else. The subtitles are obviously an afterthought.

By: TofuUnion

TofuUnion — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:34:15 +0000

This Australian anti-whaling campaign is completely misleading. Because they are misunderstanding about the activities what Eskimos, Norway, Iceland and Japan are doing. They are allowed to hunt only the types of whales which are increasing their number.

Also this activity doesn’t damage whole the ecosystem of sea creatures at all. According to the ocean investigations, the whales are actually eating about seven times more fish than people catch. If you hunt whales(based on scientific management), people can make use of more fish resource (and of course whale resource too). That’s why those countries are participating at the whaling.

Those who support antiwhaling would probably insist whales are interigent animal. Though for some other people whales are just as same as other edible animals like cows, pigs or fowls. Until 19th century even the USA was whaling to get its oil in large quantity. (This ended when oil well drilling started.)

By: Peter Pan

Peter Pan — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:06:42 +0000

Not to mention
the subtitles have too few words
on each line meaning
that the subtitles have to
switch all to often
in order for children to
keep up with in reading.

By: sod

sod — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:04:32 +0000

good corporate video and your right what level of children are meant to view this?