Re: NANFA-- OT - Norway to export Whale products.

Edward Venn (e_venn_at_hotmail.com)
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:11:06 -0000

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Spike the meat with Dioxin and DDT. After PM Mori has some whale sashimi and
then kicks the bucket because he ate 5,000 times the safe limits of these
chemicals no Japanese will touch whale again. Japanese are cowards, they
will not eat anything dangerous (unless it's something like Fugu which is
reputed to make even senile old men ready, raring and horny)
>The bottom line about whales--no one in Norway, Iceland or Japan is
>starving
>and dependent on whales for food. It's unbelievably self-righteous that
>these suckers insist on a whale meat market. My immediate reaction is to
>hope that some group like the Sea Shepherds is able to actively interfere.
>
>Your mileage may vary, of course...
>
>--Bruce Stallsmith
>Huntsville, AL
>
>>Tuesday January 16 10:24 AM ET
>> Norway to Lift Ban on Whale Exports -- Report
>>
>> OSLO (Reuters) - Norway plans to lift a ban on
>>exports of whale products like blubber in defiance of
>> international restrictions, Norway's NTB news
>>agency said on Monday.
>>
>> Norway resumed whale hunts in 1993 despite an
>>international moratorium but has refused to allow exports until
>> now, insisting that whaling is solely to meet
>>domestic needs for meat. Whalers have for years pushed to export
>> blubber and other products to Japan.
>>
>> NTB gave no sources for its report.
>>
>> Foreign Ministry spokesman Karsten Klepsvik
>>declined comment but said that Foreign Minister Thorbjoern
>> Jagland and Fisheries Minister Otto Gregussen
>>would hold a news conference at 1515 GMT.
>
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