[While some Greenpeace volunteers are very dedicated environmentalist,
unfortunately it must be realized that the organization itself has now gone
very corporate, to say the least. I hate to say it, but I think its time to
stop financially supporting Greenpeace, and instead support environmental
groups that are more serious about their cause, and have a proven track record
to back up their worthiness for funding. The artical below is just the tip of
the iceburg when it comes to the failings of this once legitamate organization.
Rick]
Greenpeace Eats Whales to "Save" Them
Greenpeace has gone over the line this time in betraying the whales.
The Greenpeace Foundation has launched a bizarre and contradictory
campaign to "save" the whales. This week on Valentine's Day, Greenpeace hit the
road in Japan with the strangely named "Whale Love Wagon."
The campaign opened by asking supporters to send a fax transmission to the
Antarctic whaling fleet saying, "I love Japan but whaling breaks my heart."
The Greenpeace attitude is that if they can't beat them, then they should
join them. And in doing so, Greenpeacers have betrayed the whales. They are
eating them.
In promoting their theme that Japanese whale eating culture must be
respected, a video distributed by Greenpeace depicts a Greenpeacer visiting a
Japanese grandmother in her home. He sits down and eats whale with her, and
politely tells her that is was delicious.
"We are making it very clear that we have no problem with Japanese culture or
eating whale," said Emiliano Ezcurra, an Argentinian Greenpeace activist who
helped design the campaign.
Ezcurra said that Greenpeace has no problem with whaling on Japan's coast but
opposes the slaughter of the whales in the Southern Oceans Whale Sanctuary.
Sea Shepherd Founder and President Captain Paul Watson, one of the
co-founders of Greenpeace is appalled at the pro-whaling stance of Greenpeace.
"This campaign is just simply bizarre," said Captain Watson, "How does
Greenpeace think they are going to stop whaling in Antarctica by publicly
eating whale meat and declaring whale meat to be delicious? What are these
people thinking?"
This is not the first time that Greenpeace has betrayed the whales. In 1997,
they assisted in a Yupik whale hunt by towing a dead bowhead whale ashore and
ate whale meat as guests of the community.
Greenpeace International Director John Frizell has openly stated that
Greenpeace is not opposed to whaling in principle.
When Sea Shepherd crew visited the Greenpeace ships Esperanza and Arctic
Sunrise in Cape Town in February 2006, they could not help but notice that on
the eve of a major campaign on overfishing along the African coast, the
Greenpeace crew were sitting down to dinner before platters of baked fish.
When one of the Sea Shepherd crew questioned the contradictions and said that
Sea Shepherd ships served only vegan meals, the cook on the Esperanza said,
"That's just silly."
Greenpeace has a reputation built on the hard work and ideas of people like
Paul Watson, Robert Hunter, Bobbi Hunter, Al Johnson, Dr. Paul Spong, and
others, and these ideas and efforts are being spat upon by these politically
correct bureaucrats who now run Greenpeace.
Emily Hunter, the daughter of the late Robert Hunter is presently with the
Sea Shepherd campaign in Antarctica onboard the ship named after her father.
"The memory of my father, the first president of Greenpeace, has been
dishonored by this incredibly ridiculous campaign to have Greenpeacers eat
whale meat as a gesture of support for Japanese culture," Emily commented.
Greenpeace sent one of their ships the Esperanza to Antarctica to unfurl
anti-whaling banners before the Japanese whaling fleet. Despite being given the
coordinates of the whaling fleet for over a week, the Esperanza still has not
found the whaling fleet. If they do find the Japanese fleet, there will be no
whaling activities to oppose.
Whaling in Antarctica is over for this season as the Japanese factory ship
Nisshin Maru, in the Ross Sea, has experienced a major fire in their engine
room.
Sea Shepherd hunted for the Japanese fleet for 6 weeks before engaging them
in confrontations north of the Balleny Islands on February 9th and February
12th.
Speaking from the ship Robert Hunter, Captain Watson said, "I respect
Japanese culture, and in fact, I have been a student of Japanese history, but I
do not and never will respect any part of a culture that butchers and eats the
flesh of one of the most intelligent, socially-complex, and most gentle
sentient beings on this planet. I place whale eating on the level of
cannibalism as barbarous behaviour."
The slaughter of endangered whales in the Antarctic Whale Sanctuary must be
ended and it won't be ended by sitting down with Japanese grandmothers and
sharing a whale burger.
Source >
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070214/sc_afp/japanenvironmentwhalingngo;_ylt=Ai2CBg6bNqXUnLXW9k3RALd4hMgF
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