Stilgherrian » hideki moronuki http://stilgherrian.com All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. Vive les poissons rouges sauvages! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:34:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 en © stil@stilgherrian.com () stil@stilgherrian.com() 1440 Live Internet broadcasts from Stilgherrian. All publication is a political act. All communication is propaganda. All art is pornography. All business is personal. All hail Eris. stil@stilgherrian.com No no http://stilgherrian.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/sla_144w.jpg Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com 144 144 Whaling discussion continues http://stilgherrian.com/politics/whaling_discussion_continues/ http://stilgherrian.com/politics/whaling_discussion_continues/#comments Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:09:14 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/whaling_discussion_continues/ My piece about Japanese whaling chief Hideki Moronuki is generating some interesting discussion. I’ve just posted a long comment. Worth a read, even if it’s not about Heath Ledger. Oh, and you can always subscribe to the comments feed to ensure you don’t miss any of the action.

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]]> http://stilgherrian.com/politics/whaling_discussion_continues/feed/ My new hero: Hideki Moronuki http://stilgherrian.com/politics/hideki_moronuki/ http://stilgherrian.com/politics/hideki_moronuki/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:37:09 +0000 Stilgherrian http://stilgherrian.com/politics/hideki_moronuki/ Photograph of Hideki Moronuki

Hideki Moronuki (pictured) is the Japanese Fisheries Agency’s chief of whaling. While I’m reasonably sure I’m not in favour of whaling, and certainly not if people are fibbing about its true purpose, you’ve got to admire his ballsy, direct language.

In a lengthy opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald last Monday, Moronuki defends Japan’s “scientific whaling” with the observation that to commercially manage forests, fisheries and other “natural living resources” but not whales makes no sense. He dismisses as a “fallacy” that there must be one [commercial activity] (whale watching) to the exclusion of the other (whaling).

There are enough whales for both those that want to watch them and those who want to eat them.

I fully respect the right of Australians to oppose whaling for some “cuddly” reasons, but this does not give them the right to coerce others to end a perfectly legal and culturally significant activity that poses no threat to the species concerned.

And on Wednesday, with two of Sea Shepherd’s unruly wankers aboard his ship, he said the pair would be given an opportunity to try whale meat while aboard the ship.

Hat-tip on that last quote to The Road to Surfdom.

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