jan.vindheim@gmail.com (Jan  Bojer Vindheim) wrote:
>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 lokk at the greenpeace websites for an answer to
>that one ?

You think they are going to advertize it on their web page???

>>  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.

Yeah, sure.

>> Perhaps the people who *contribute* have other motivations, but
>> the organizations are all about money, not whales.
>
>  Hugely overstated, or - more bluntly - bullshit.

It's a *fact*.  Some are far worse than others, but almost all of them
are little more than money generating machines.  Greenpeace is actually
one of the "best", and they still fit that description.

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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 intenational tretaies which ban whaling, that is.

There is *no* international treaty that bans whaling.  Stop speading
emotinal bullshit.

>> 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.

Well, I can see why... you aren't particularly concerned with
accurate facts or rational logic.

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Floyd L. Davidson           <http://web.newsguy.com/floyd_davidson>
Ukpeagvik (Barrow, Alaska)                         floyd@barrow.com