David Cassuto
Not too long ago, I blogged about the duplicity of Japan’s “research” hunting of whales. The practice is little more than a disingenuous attempt to circumvent the global ban on whale killing by pretending the slaughter has some scientific purpose. I called on the rest of the world to repudiate such tactics and to hold them up to public scrutiny and scorn.
Then, a few weeks ago, a federal judge in the U.S. ruled that gray wolf hunts in the Northern Rockies violated the Endangered Species Act. Guess what then happened: U.S. wildlife officials proposed a “research hunt” to kill the wolves. Apparently, their idea was that it was okay to kill listed species as long as you claimed a scientific reason for doing so. You know, just like they do in Japan with the whales. Continue reading
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