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Posted Mon May 11 2009: from BBC (UK):
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Whaling peace talks 'fall short' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1242052973
Moves to make a peace deal between pro and anti-whaling nations have stalled, with no chance of agreement this year.
Countries have been talking for nearly a year in an attempt to hammer out an accord by this year's International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting.... A source close to the talks blamed Japan, saying it had not offered big enough cuts in its Antarctic hunt, conducted in the name of research.
Earlier meetings had raised the possibility that Japan might countenance annual reductions in its catch over the next five years, perhaps down to zero.
However, the source said that at a meeting held last month in San Francisco, Japan had offered to cut the haul to 650 minke whales per year, only 29 fewer than were caught last season.
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Very Scary Tags: bad policy, marine mammals, hunting to extinction
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Killing intelligent mammals "in the name of research." Didn't Mengele do that?
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