Featured, Wildlife - Friday, September 12, 2008 0:00 - 12 Comments

Media Blacked Out From Meeting On Allowing Whale Slaughter

Question: Why would next week’s meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) be closed to the press, the public, and scientists not associated with the commission?

Answer: Because they will be discussing lifting the long-standing ban on commercial whaling and they don’t want anyone to know the real reasons why.

It’s a bold accusation, but several publications covering the event (1 2 3 4) have speculated that there would be no other reason to keep it completely secret unless there were plans to “compromise” for the sake of “science”.  In other words, this meeting is not about whether the mass-slaughtering of whales that diminished many species to near-extinction will resume. Continue…