Floyd L. Davidson <floyd@barrow.com> wrote:

 
> How was it off the mark?  What do Greenpeace and the SSCS do,
> other than collect huge sums of money? 
Why dont you take a look at the greenpeace websites for an answer to
that one ?

>  Name one anti-whaling
> organization that spends most of its money on something *other*
> than administration (meaning salaries for executives).

Administration includes a lot of useful jobs, including gathering and
processing information.


> Perhaps the people who *contribute* have other motivations, but
> the organizations are all about money, not whales.

  Hugely overstated, or - more bluntly - bullshit.

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> People who want to eat Minke whales have just as much right to
> eat them as you do to eat whatever it is that you eat. 

If they disregard international treaties which ban whaling, that is. 

> If *you* don't want to eat whale meat, *don't*.  But claiming somebody
> else shouldn't is irrational.

Now I dont usually pull the whalemeat out of peoples faces, if I come
across people eating the stuff.  But I view  the whole prowhaling
campaign in Norway as deeply irrational.