Paul Watson and SS are off base this time.....

"In Antarctica there was a legal basis for what they were doing. It justified the desperate measures that were taken,"

Cite them. We've been asking for this a long time. Because frankly, that's dead wrong.
Japan is whaling within a research clause with the IWC, so they're legal.
Antarctic waters are international waters, not Australian.
The whale sanctuary was set up to protect whales from commercial whaling, not research.
Add to this the IWC is a group of countries agreeing to follow rules. There are no laws preventing whaling within the IWC or international waters.
The SS have no legal basis to engage in illegal tactics in the Antarctic.

t seems that Paul Watson is hell bent on creating drama and change where it isn't necessarily proper. I think they would be better served in finding a negotiated settlement, reduced 'fishing' to meet cultural and food needs.

But if he did that, that would possibly solve the problem. and with that done, the money stops rolling in

I would agree that the process is barbaric, and am sure the pilot whales suffer (regardless of how long). But the Faroe Islanders claims that it's 'like cattle or chicken' is pretty far from the truth.

They view pilot whales as a food source same as we view cows and chickens as food sources. Would you put up with or follow the threatening actions of a group from India that says because they view cows as sacred, you shouldn't ever eat one again under threat of attacking you?

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