Stop the slaughter.

Research my ass.

The Japanese and every other whaling nation should stop this deplorable practice. I can respect their culture arguement, however, if they want to whale traditionally they need to go back to their traditional practice and not use modern technology. If they want to kill whales they should start killing whales in row boats with hand held harpoons.

Because they kill whales that is.

I read Paul Watson's statements on facebook. I think the Japanese government was using public money, not donations to tsunami relief, to aid the whalers.

The whalers have been getting public subsidies since they started whaling in the last decade.

TOKYO (AP) – Japan is spending 2.3 billion yen ($29 million) from its supplementary budget for tsunami reconstruction to fund the country's annual whaling hunt in the Antarctic Ocean, a fisheries official confirmed Thursday.

Tatsuya Nakaoku, a Fisheries Agency official in charge of whaling, defended the move, saying the funding helps support Japan's whaling industry as a whole, including some whaling towns along the devastated northeastern coast. One ship on the hunt is based in Ishinomaki, a town hit badly by the March 11 tsunami, he said.

The budget request was made to beef up security and maintain the "stable operation" of Japan's research whaling, he said, which has faced increasingly aggressive interference from boats with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

Conservationist group Greepeace blasted the funding move, claiming it was siphoning money away from disaster victims.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-12-08/japan-whaling-tsunami/51744710/1

The fact is they are using funds for the tsunami relief effort to protect the whaling fleet.

It still should not be implied that it was "disaster relief" donations from citizens all over the world.

Whaling is an immoral proposition and has led to the decline of the Whale population just like the slaughter of Dolphins in Japanese waters I suggest you watch "The Cove" to see how cruel the Japanese fishermen can be towards sentient beings like the Whales and Dolphins! Dolphins have very highly developed brains and even have their own language.