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Posted Mon Nov 17 2008: from Telegraph.co.uk:
Japan's whaling mother ship sets sail http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1226953556
A fleet of catcher ships was expected to join the Nisshin Maru as part of its foray into the waters of the Antarctic where it is this year due to hunt up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales as part of its controversial scientific research programme.... Reports of the departure of the fleet coincided with the Australian government unveiling a major scientific whaling study to prove to Japan that it was not necessary to kill whales for science.
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'Doc Michael says:
Japan: what you are doing is unforgivable. Australia: good on yer!
These are sentient mammals, and now that we know that, it is insulting to humanity to kill them. I can no longer countenance such appalling behavior. We've already denuded much of their oceanscape. Can't we leave them alone now?

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