Time to hammer Iceland
I’ve been raging for some time about Japan not only flauting the IWC ban on commercial whaling but actively seeking to overturn the moratorium. But the Iceland has not only left the IWC, but is now flagrantly and egregiously whaling like mad and exporting the product to Japan…and they are doing this at a loss!
Those Sea Shepherd dudes are really wasting their time hunting around the Antarctic for the Japanese fleet – they would have a much easier time going after Thor Codbiter in the Atlantic, and maybe get some public interest in the EU and the US around boycotting Icelandic goods. Given Iceland’s current crappy economy, I seriously doubt it would take much of a boycott to get them to stop this one measly company’s depredations on fin and minke whales!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I’ve heard boycotts aren’t generally effective. Is there some reason to believe that a boycott of Iceland would be?
September 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
yeah – right now they are broke! plus – one of their new sources of revenue is whale watching
September 29th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Boycott, hell… we should invade!! Iceland’s small enough that we might be able to pull this one off.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
You don’t get it.
It’s easier to recruit white college students for the Steve Irwin if they are going after Asians, than if they were going after white people.
Demonize the Yellow man, even though with a small amount of pressure, we could see Iceland scrapping their fleet.
September 30th, 2009 at 9:12 am
I think Matthew G. Saroff has the rights of it. In fact, both the US and Russia kill a mess of whales in the name of ‘aboriginal whaling’ – basically native Americans running down small whales with Boston Whalers and high power rifles – you know, the way their ancestors did.