Australia to try to close Japanese whaling loophole

The Aussies plan to ask the International Whaling Commission to end “scientific” whaling, the loophole used by Japan to let its whalers haul a thousand or so cetaceans each year under the guise of “research.”

(Tokyo doesn’t talk about whether or not it does research on how to improve whale meat when used as dog food. So few younger Japanese eat whale meat that, indeed, not all the catch’s meat is eaten by humans.)

Japan: More whaling lack of ethics

Once again, Japan is making a bid to get developing nations to support its bid to open up whaling.

Gee, I thought we were getting to the point in world affairs where only countries like our own good old U.S.ofA. and China resorted to such blatant international bribery. And, thank doorknob outright whaling ban violators Norway and Iceland don’t have Japan’s clout, while mourning the fact that international sanctions for environmental violations don’t seem to be on anybody’s radar screens.