Whale Wars

[Puckoon]

A post by iceman the other day "Kill the whales and feed the children" and the fact that this show was on all weekend on Animal Planet got me thinking about this thread. Do any of you watch this TV show, or keep up to date with what these activists do on a daily basis for months at a time? They basically take on a fleet (5-6 ships) of Japanese whaling companies and try to interfere with their whaling on the high seas.

Lunatics and activists. Certainly committed to their cause however.

http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whale_Wars

[J70]

Never watched it, so I've no idea whether they are lunatics.

More generally, I do contribute to various wildlife conservation organizations though. Its easy to sit on the sidelines and call activists lunatics or misguided or whatever (not referring to these specifically... you may well be right!), but someone has to be out there fighting the good fight or there'd be no environmental or wildlife protections whatsoever.

[The Real Laoislad]

A post by iceman the other day "Kill the whales and feed the children"

I agree with the Iceman

[gerry]

i watch a couple of their  shows of them in a old boat breaking throught ice after the whaling boat.  Makes you think the rest of us have 9 to 5 jobs, kids and a mortage and these guys spend their life hunting whale catchers.  On a bright note they did not see kildare geting robbed by benniy's squareball yesterday.

[pintsofguinness]

Never watched it, so I've no idea whether they are lunatics.

More generally, I do contribute to various wildlife conservation organizations though. Its easy to sit on the sidelines and call activists lunatics or misguided or whatever (not referring to these specifically... you may well be right!), but someone has to be out there fighting the good fight or there'd be no environmental or wildlife protections whatsoever.

exactly.

I'm sure those hunting whales are worried about feeding the children. 

[Puckoon]

I am not trying to be disparaging by calling them lunatics - but being surrounded by 5 harpoon vessels who want to sink you, in the middle of nowhere while throwing stink bombs at a factory whaling ship - is above and beyond the call of duty in my mind. It is dangerous scary stuff, and I think just a matter of time before one of the activists gets seriously hurt.

[J70]

I'm sure its good for ratings and getting a contract for another season though!

[Puckoon]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38968296/ns/us_news-environment/

WOW!

[Hardy]

What in the namajaysus are they doing to the English language?

[Puckoon]

What in the namajaysus are they doing to the English language?

There's that shower of feckers popping up again. They are ruining everything.