Crocodile Hunter’s Widow Joins Anti-Whaling Bandwagon
The widow of famous Australian “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin, has started taking an active role in the movement against Japanese whaling:
“Crocodile hunter” Steve Irwin’s family plans a campaign against Japanese whaling to show that scientific data about whales can be obtained without killing them, the Australian’s widow said Thursday.
Terri Irwin said the project would be launched in 2008 through a whale watching business she bought after her husband’s death last year.
“We can actually learn everything the Japanese are learning with lethal research by using non-lethal research,” she told Channel Nine television.
“That’s what I’m embarking on in 2008. We are determined to show the Japanese they can stop all whaling, not just humpbacks,” she added.
The research is to be carried out in the southern hemisphere in cooperation with Oregon State University, she said.
Japan has been under fire for defying international protests and sending its whaling fleet into Antarctic waters to hunt around 1,000 whales, ostensibly for “scientific” purposes, exploiting a loophole in a 1986 moratorium on whaling.
As you can see from the photo in the post, radical animal rights activist Paul Watson’s Sea Shepherd organization has changed the name of one of their ships to the “Steve Irwin” (a smiling Terri Irwin standing next to Watson and the ship suggests that this was done with her approval). Watson has vowed to continue his campaign to disrupt the Japanese whaling fleet, no doubt using the same tactics of ship ramming and violence that have led some to call Sea Shepherd an eco-terrorist organization.
Update: For more information on Sea Shephard and Watson, check out this November 2007 article from the New Yorker. Unlike most western media outlets, it actually includes information about Sea Shepherd’s non-Japanese opponents:
Sidney Holt, one of the principal architects of the whaling moratorium, told me, “I think his involvement in all this is an absolute disaster. Almost everything he has been doing has had blowback for those who want to see an end to whaling. In too many cases, playing piracy on the ocean, and creating danger for other ships, is simply not liked.”
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God, shut up already about the damn whaling. Poor Terri’s mind is all shattered from her husband’s death and now she is joining forces with some fat kook who puts whales’ lives over humans’? Talk about tragedy.
Hey, heres a newsflash: MAYBE THEY JUST WANT TO EAT THE GOD DAMNED WHALES? Will ya just let ‘em. They aren’t over-whaling so just shut it up.
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Bless you, dear netizen.
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Thank you kind sir. You are a gentleman and a scholar. You are the President of the United States and I will award you.
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I’m pretty sure the “research” is whether the whale population will continue to grow even with 1000 or so killed eaach year, thus this research cannot be done without killing the whales.
Or maybe the research is to try to figure out how such “intelligent, graceful” creatures still manage to be surprised and killed in significant numbers by a fleet of noisy huge clumsy whaling ships.
Or maybe it’s gastronomic research? Does whale taste good? And why get angry when the life of 1 whale can provide as much meat as maybe the lives of 100 cows. 1 life is far less than 100, but cows aren’t popular, are they?
Personally, I think the research is political research. Just how hypocritical can liberals be? To what lengths will they go to waste time “protecting” species that are not endangered, while ignoring real HUMAN problems? And why do Aleutians get a free pass to whale, but Japanese do not, especially given that Aleutians are probably descendants of Japanese?
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I think it’s hilarious to see how idiots here are trying to justify something that can’t be justified. If they can hunt down whales then why not hunting down any other animal on earth that’s close to be endangered again?
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Well, it can easily be justified if you couldn’t care less whether or not an animal becomes extinct or not, or if you think that their numbers aren’t dangerously low.
Anything can be justified. It’s only opinion to think one way or another.
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Nothing being hunted is close to being endangered. Lern2research.
I think its hilarious to see how idiots here simply regurgitate what they hear elsewhere without having really put any personal thought into it. But please go on what were you saying? Something that can’t be justified and so on? So its ok to factory farm chickens and other animals because they aren’t closed to being endangered? Perhaps this is a case of the ‘do as I say, not as I do’s.
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Lern2tell the truth. It’s amazing how some people on the Internet can spout blatant untruths without batting an eyelash.
Where’d you get that “information” from anyway? Why don’t you name a source? Or maybe you can’t?
It’s correct what Karisu said, people make all sorts of excuses, but the truth is that they just don’t care whether the whales go extinct or not.
This isn’t about the Japanese people. This is about the whales. It’s not as though the Japanese are going to starve to death if they can’t eat whales. There’s so much other stuff to eat. This makes the argument that “environmentalists are putting the lives of whales above people” invalid.
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Racist Australia and Japanese whaling
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=e8lvep0-Ii0
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Down with Sea Shepherd.
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Word.
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Hmm, wasn’t the issue about humpback whales, as their numbers are declining? Since Japan has decided to stop hunting them…what’s the issue?
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Some people are “emotionally” upset over the whales’ deaths.
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I love Japan and everything but hate justifying killings of whales so much. And don’t even compare killing whales and farming. When you start growing whales in farms and eating just them then maybe it could be somehow similar, but now it’s just killing for food like
caveman did with mammoth for example.
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