The Lie That Is Japan's Whaling Research

Each winter Japan's whaling fleet sails for the Southern Ocean for the purpose of "Cetacean Research" when the real means is to harvest whales for the purpose of monetary gain. Also each winter environmental groups like Greenpeace and Sea Shepard set sail to protest the lie that is Japan's whaling research. Yes, there have been confrontations with inexcusable acts perpetrated by both sides. Today it was taken beyond mere stupidity when a Japanese ship acting as security sunk a boat belonging to the group Sea Shepard.

Japanese whalers have sliced in half a high-tech anti-whaling boat in a dramatic escalation of the annual battle between the whaling fleet and environmental activists

The $1.5 million, 79 foot long 'stealth' boat Ady Gil sank after the attack in Southern Ocean but its six man cew was rescued uninjured, said Captain Paul Watson, founder of the radical environmental group Sea Shepherd.

Captain Watson said the Ady Gil, a light weight vessel that resembles Batman's spacecraft more than a conventional boat, was idling in waters near Commonwealth Bay in the Antarctic when it was suddenly rammed by the Japanese ship Shonan Maru, which was providing security to Japan's whaling fleet.

Because a majority of Japanese people don't eat whale the meat is given away for use in school lunches