“Fukushima Is Good for Whales”
Time.com’s Ecocentric blogger Krista Mahr has written a post explaining some “good news” that came about because the the March 11th earthquake and tsunami. It would seem that Iceland has postponed its fin whale hunt because the tsunami destroyed the town in Japan that had processed the meat:
Japan is the biggest consumer of Iceland’s fin whale meat, and three of the facilities that process Icelandic whale meat were destroyed in the March 11 disasters, according to the owner of Iceland’s primary whaling company, Hvalur. According to Iceland Review, Kristjan Loftsson recently went to Japan to assess the situation, and returned saying because of the destroyed facilities and the general mood of austerity in Japan, his company’s fin whale hunt would not begin in June as it normally does. He said it may start later in the summer. Hvalur employs up to 150 people in the summer during whaling season. Fin whales can grow to be nearly 90 feet long and are listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
One reader left the following comment on her blog post:
What kind of horrid person celebrates people losing their jobs because of a massive natural disaster… You need to get out, and think about life on earth a little.
However, most of the other comments have generally agreed with Mahr’s anti-whaling slant.
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