Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
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Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#2As far as I am concerned, as a Canadian, I would remove the 'most favored nation' status from Japan. This would add import duties to all Japanese imports to Canada. that would far exceed any whaling profits.
If you can not persuade them peacefully, 'club them to the ground' by adding the USA to also deny them MFN status.
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#3Disappointing. We share one planet. Nations need to be held accountable by each other for the amount of resources they consume and how they do so. And in this case whales are not even within Japanese territory...
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#4As far as I am concerned, as a Canadian, I would remove the 'most favored nation' status from Japan. This would add import duties to all Japanese imports to Canada. that would far exceed any whaling profits. If you can not persuade them peacefully, 'club them to the ground' by adding the USA to also deny them MFN status.
Is that even (legally) possible as long as Canada and Japan are part of WTO?
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#5As far as I am concerned, as a Canadian, I would remove the 'most favored nation' status from Japan. This would add import duties to all Japanese imports to Canada. that would far exceed any whaling profits. If you can not persuade them peacefully, 'club them to the ground' by adding the USA to also deny them MFN status.
Canada is not part of the IWC, we left in 1982. The aboriginal communities in our northern territories regularly hunt whales in small numbers.
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#6People often defend these kind of acts with the rationale that it is a culture heritage. If so, shouldn't they be sailing the ocean with traditional wooden sailboats and relying only on wind and currents to take them where they should go?
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#7Well they never really stopped, they just claimed it would be used for research and the meat was sold after the research was done.
From the article "Japan has caught between about 200 and 1,200 whales each year, saying it is investigating stock levels to see whether the whales are endangered or not."
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#8According to the article “
Pro-whaling nations expected the moratorium to be temporary, until consensus could be reached on sustainable catch quotas.”
If this fishing is truly sustainable and doesn’t threaten the whales with extinction there shouldn’t be a problem. Why should whales get protection that pigs, cows, and other animals don’t?
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#9As far as I am concerned, as a Canadian, I would remove the 'most favored nation' status from Japan. This would add import duties to all Japanese imports to Canada. that would far exceed any whaling profits. If you can not persuade them peacefully, 'club them to the ground' by adding the USA to also deny them MFN status.
As a Canadian you should probably first work on getting your country to stop overfishing tuna so the supply doesn't crash like cod did: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/our-failure-to-pr...
Re: Japan to withdraw from the International Whaling Commission
#10According to the article “ Pro-whaling nations expected the moratorium to be temporary, until consensus could be reached on sustainable catch quotas.” If this fishing is truly sustainable and doesn’t threaten the whales with extinction there shouldn’t be a problem. Why should whales get protection that pigs, cows, and other animals don’t?
If you didn’t make them you don’t get to eat them?