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COPENHAGEN, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Denmark has rejected a Japanese request to extradite anti-whaling activist Paul Watson over criminal charges dating back more than a decade

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
    63·
    6 days ago

    I dont get the hardons for whaling like this in places like Japan. If Inuits or other native people are whaling because it actually preserves a hundreds of year old tradition and feeds their village, fine whatever. But industrial whaling from modern ships has nothing culturally important to preserve, nor is it remotely necessary for feeding the Japanese.

    • oce 🐆@jlai.luOPEnglish
      49·
      6 days ago

      Almost nobody cares about whale meat in Japan, it’s a small nationalist elite’s thing.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 days ago

        Aka, the only people who vote in large numbers. Work culture there grinds you hard that most people can’t engage with politics.

    • perestroika@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      Nice to hear. I haven’t been following the situation, but there was a petition in favour of letting him go already in spring.