World’s sickest school trip

[Omaha Steve]

World’s sickest school trip
22/06/2006
THIS is a school trip Japanese style. Not for these children a visit to a castle or museum.

Instead they watched a 10-ton whale being butchered, the latest victim of Japan’s defiance of a 20-year world whaling ban.

The children giggled as blood poured from the animal, the first kill of the season east of Tokyo, while rubber booted workers with three-foot machetes carved it into brick-size chunks.

The Baird’s beaked whale was one of 20,000 dolphins, porpoises and beaked whales that Japan kills every year, in addition to the 1,000 larger whales harpooned for "scientific research" in the North Pacific and Antarctic.

The killing came days after Japan succeeded by one vote in getting the whaling ban branded as "unnecessary" at a meeting of the International Whaling Commission.

Tokyo is now expected to intensify its efforts to get the 75 per cent majority it needs to get the ban scrapped altogether next year.

Georgina Davies of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said: "Japan and the countries doing its bidding are guilty of environmental vandalism." She said with huge stockpiles of whalemeat unsold, they were now trying to get schoolchildren to eat it.


Anthony Marr, founder
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE)
http://www.HOPE-CARE.org
[e-mail]
604-222-1169, toll free 1-866-822-1169

[LeftyMom]

1. My elementary school took a trip to the fish hatchery

watching all those fish struggle to the top of the ladder only to be tossed about by workmen and gutted with knives was brutal. Probably a walk in the park compared to watching whale butchery though.

[Critters2]

2. Yep, this makes me sick! eom

[NMMNG]

3. How vile

x(


The children giggled as blood poured from the animal, the first kill of the season east of Tokyo, while rubber booted workers with three-foot machetes carved it into brick-size chunks.


Way to teach children to have no respect for life.