Too Extremist

Hello everyone! Last week in the post I made an introduction about whaling and the activists that are against this activity. Also, the controversy that the anti-whaling activists are causing because of their methods was mentioned; this week I’m writing about a case in particular. It’s about a member of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, activist Tarah Millen.

This anti-whaling activist from Canada and her Sea Shepherd’s partners are being blamed for wasting too much money on travelling to Japan when there are Whaling ships in the East Coast of Canada. Also, the way the “Sea Shepherds” fight the whale meat processing ships in Japan is considered extremist and they haven’t been stopped because of the harassment against the fishermen from the Whaling ships. On the other hand, they could be already in jail for doing in this in Canada. In resume, “she's going to Japan to bully the people there because they're too polite/meek to fight back” as Erica Ueda wrote in her article. The “Sea Shepherds” are also criticized because of the bad reputation they gave to all the anti-whaling activists that still use “more ordinary” methods.

I think is not about how extremist the anti-whaling activists are but how they should act to get what they’re looking for, the forbiddance of Whaling. I don’t think this people started harassing Whaling ships just because they wanted to or because it is easier. There is so much at stake when the Sea Shepherd goes across the Antarctic seas just to stop whaling. They have come to a point where they have to use these extremist methods because nothing else is working.

Bibliography

Ueda, Erica. BC Local News. August 23rd 2011. August 25th 2011 <http://www.bclocalnews.com/opinion/letters/128269043.html>.

  

Welcome to my blog

Hello bloggers, this is my brand new blog about anti-whaling and the activists who support this movement. As you should know, the world's environment is changing and we must be informed about the events that are developing these changes.

Nowadays the environment is being affected by whaling, there are fewer whales in the sea and they may be endangered in matter of time; also the people who commit whaling are violating the animal rights. But what is whaling? Basically, whaling is the concept used for whale hunting and its meat processing. This is why activists from pro-animal and environmental foundations are taking control of this situation.

The reason why anti-whaling activists are causing a lot of controversy is because of the actions some of them take. The controversial battle between the whale meat processing ships and the activists have caught the attention of international organizations and there are countries were whaling is now forbidden or the laws got stricter. The famous group of activists Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, better known for the Animal Planet series Whale Wars, are possibly about to meet their goal: to stop whaling in Japan; but it’s been also criticized because of the activists’ methods. In the series, we can see the Sea Shepherds attack Japanese ships as seen in an ABC News article: “Harassment by Sea Shepherd has limited the whaling fleet's effectiveness, and last season it was forced to return to Japan after harpooning only a fifth of its total quota of whales” (Willacy, http://www.abc.net.au). The anti-whaling activists risk their own lives to stop whaling and some people have considered it extremist, some others think that it is the only way to get what they’re fighting for.

Bibliography

Discovery Communications, LLC. Animal Planet. 2011. August 18^th 2011 <http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/about/>.

Willacy, Mark. ABC News. August 11^th 2011. August 18^th 2011 <http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-12/japan-fisheries-flags-whaling-end-am/2836118>.