The Green Files > In Israel, Whales Are Not Kosher

http://www.nowpublic.com [The News is NowPublic.com | NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public] treehugger.com: The good thing about being a small country, is that when an emergency presents itself, the whole population can group together, focus and take swift action. That's what happened recently when the US Secretary of State called Israel earlier this year asking Israel to support the US anti-whaling position at the annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) in St.

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Ocean Defenders - the webloghttp://weblog.greenpeace.org/oceandefenders [Ocean Defenders - the weblog] Japan wins St Kitts declaration vote at IWC: From Adele, keeping you up to date from the Greenpeace office in StockholmJapan and the whaling lobby have finally gained a simple majority vote at the IWC. 33 countries voted in favour of a resolution called "The St Kitts declaration" claiming that the “IWC has failed to meet its obligations under the terms of the ICRW” and declaring its commitment to “normalizing the functions of the IWC based upon the terms of the ICRW (see below for an explanation of what they're talking about!)

http://wakeupfromyourslumber.blogspot.com [The Truth Will Set You Free] Israel saves whales, but kills Palestinians with... : Japan and Iceland have used this provision to continue killing whales, selling the meat after conducting scientific tests.Let me get this straight. Corporations can torture and kill whales to study them for commercial exploitation (most likley Big Agri and Big Pharma), but others can't hunt whale in their OWN territory in order to EAT?

http://rabbiyonah.wordpress.com [Rabbi Yonah’s Blogshul] Whales 3 Japan 0: It buys support from poor countries to pursue its whaling dreams - commercial whaling. The good news is that they have been snubbed three times this year already, as reported on the Greenpeace Blog.

http://sirocco.blogsome.com [Sirocco] Whale and circus: At first, the IWC’s politically appointed commissioners refused to accept their findings, prompting the resignation of the scientific committee’s British chairman, Philip Hammond, in 1993. Since then, the discussions have become bogged down over non-scientific issues, as the anti-whalers have frustrated all attempts to lift the moratorium.

http://webweaversworld.blogspot.com [WebWeaver's World] Saving the whales: Thanks SO much to everyone who responded to the Greenpeace call for action, and enormous thanks to the anti-whaling nations who voted at the IWC to continue to protect these incredible, endangered creatures. There's still lots to do - Japanese whalers are still killing over 1,000 whales a year in the name of "scientific research" (the remains of the whales end up on Japanese dinner plates....

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