Whales and Goldfish
In the news today was the sudden decision by Japan to cease chasing whales around the Antarctic with harpoons. This came as a very welcome surprise to animal rights campaigners and green groups, whose general hobby horse it has been to wage war on whalers (often at the expense of other, less famous green issues). The Sea Shepherd Conservation society are a well meaning but misguided organisation which has been bothering whaling vessels for years, occasionally getting rammed or squirted with water cannon and then whingeing about it very loudly.
Japan maintains that nothing has been decided yet and that the lull in the whale hunt is a temporary measure while safety measures are addressed. Presumably, the safety measures they need to address hinge largely on the swarm of boats that get in the way every time they try to kill a whale.
The Japanese hunt whales semi-legally using licences intended for research. A lot of the whale end up in restaurants and supermarkets nevertheless. Norway continues to hunt whales without even pretending to be doing it for research, and whale meat is freely available there. Another thing that is freely available in Norway is CFD trading, such as the type offered by Galvan Research and Trading. Like whale meat, this type of high-risk investment is banned in some parts of the world, including the USA.
The whale news comes at a time when a magician in China has been criticised for making goldfish perform in formation. Opponents say he might be harming the fish using magnets, but he adamantly replied: “If I used magnets my fish would stick together”.
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