The opinion of the IWC is on the move, and one of the reasons is that some smaller countries are tired of being used by the people who are against whaling. If anybody has been bought it has happened on both sides.
I can show other links contradicting yours, but this is becoming too OT, even for me. DagT Den 22. jul. 2006 kl. 10.43 skrev John Forbes: > So 180,000 (probably a small fraction of the population 100 years > ago) is > "too numerous"? > > Too numerous for what? > > Too numerous to become extinct next year? So you'll continue > hunting them > to the brink of extinction, and at the same time bribe non-seafaring > nations to join the IWC and vote for a relaxation of the ban? > > Then when the ban is lifted, you'll wipe them all out, and start > again on > other sea-life like the various bill-fish that are currently being > fished > to death, like marlin. > > http://billfish.org/default.asp > > And you call Norwegians "intelligent people"! > > Good grief. > > John > > > > On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:42:50 +0100, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The Norwegian name is "Vågehval", and in latin "Balaenoptera >> acutorostrata". I´m not sure what it is called in English but >> according to the International Whaling Commission there were about >> 180000 of them in 2004. Not exactly extinct, and this is the type >> that Norwegians are hunting. >> >> As we say in Norway: "Intelligent people eat intelligent food". >> Actually it tastes very good when prepared in the right way .-) >> >> DagT >> >> Den 22. jul. 2006 kl. 00.29 skrev John Forbes: >> >>> Which whale species are "too numerous"? >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 22:58:02 +0100, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Den 21. jul. 2006 kl. 23.45 skrev Cotty: >>>> >>>>> On 21/7/06, DagT, discombobulated, unleashed: >>>>> >>>>>> The >>>>>> advice to citizens in some countries should be: "Don´t follow any >>>>>> link if you do not know the content in advance". >>>>> >>>>> Agreed! >>>>> >>>>> <http://tinyurl.com/r7aho> >>>>> >>>>> (Office friendly) >>>>> >>>> >>>> Yeah, sure, scare sperm whales to death with motor boat chasing >>>> them >>>> in stead of killing off some whales from the whales species >>>> that are >>>> too numerous. >>>> >>>> :-} >>>> >>>> DagT >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> >> > > > > -- > Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
