Bob Barker helps stop whaling

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LOS ANGELES — Five million dollars for an anti-whaling ship? Bob Barker says the price is right.

Barker donated that amount to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named its new 1,200-ton anti-whaling ship The Bob Barker.

The ship had its first confrontation with whalers on Tuesday when it joined two other Sea Shepherd vessels aiming to stop a Japanese whaling mission near Antarctica.

"Whaling was shut down today," Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson said via satellite phone from aboard a nearby ship. "There's no whaling now and hopefully no whaling after this."

The Bob Barker is a high-speed former whaling ship that can cut through ice, Watson said, adding that the vessel "makes it a lot easier for us to shut down these whaling operations."

Sea Shepherd, which Watson describes as an "anti-poaching organization," aims to enforce the United Nations World Charter for Nature by physically intervening in illegal whaling missions.

"They're targeting endangered and protected whales," he said.

Barker, a longtime animal activist, stepped up his efforts even more after retiring from his 35-year gig hosting "The Price Is Right." He met Watson through a fellow animal activist and was instantly impressed.

"He said he thought he could put the Japanese whaling fleet out of business if he had $5 million," Barker recalled. "I said, 'I think you do have the skills to do that, and I have $5 million, so let's get it on,' so that's what we did."

Barker, 86, said he was "genuinely proud" to be associated with Sea Shepherd. And while the TV studio where "The Price Is Right" is filmed is officially called the Bob Barker Studio, the veteran broadcaster said he's never had a ship named after him.

"It was our idea to name it the Bob Barker. He's a little too humble for that," Watson said. "I thought it was the least we could do."

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http://www.seashepherd.org

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It really is nice that he provided this money for the ship, I hate the fact that the Japanese claim they are harvesting whales for research, yet they kill so many and in protected waters.

There is no research going on, they kill them for a greedy and indulgent populace that will pay for the meat.

I say sink the bastards.

If it were me I would mount some torpedo tubes and let the games begin!

A MK48 would really put a stop to it.

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I wonder if they are going to try to stop American whaling next? I.E. Inuit whaling.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

[warpedskydiver 0]

I say if the Japanese want to row a seal skin covered boat to the Antarctic ocean starting from Japanese shores go right ahead.

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I wonder if they are going to try to stop American whaling next? I.E. Inuit whaling.

Should I post a picture of an apple and an orange or do you get the concept?

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

[warpedskydiver 0]

No just an apple and a continent.

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they kill them for a greedy and indulgent populace that will pay for the meat.

Fortunately, Americans are not like that. We don't have factory farms or anything

Whales are cool, sentient beings. But it's wrong to abuse any animal, and what goes on in factory farms is abuse, to provide cheap food for a self-indulgent (and often overweight) populace.

Wendy P.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)

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they kill them for a greedy and indulgent populace that will pay for the meat.

Fortunately, Americans are not like that. We don't have factory farms or anything

Whales are cool, sentient beings. But it's wrong to abuse any animal, and what goes on in factory farms is abuse, to provide cheap food for a self-indulgent (and often overweight) populace.

Wendy P.

Word, but i still like my chicken and beef

You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
My Life ROCKS!
How's yours doing?

[warpedskydiver 0]

That is why I do not buy meat at the store.

[skyrider 0]

Hope this isn'tt the same Brand New Anti whaling ship that was sunk yesterday!...I'll see if I can find the story again..

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Nope, not his..
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1165517/-Anti-whaling-ship-'cut-in-half'

[warpedskydiver 0]

That skipper of the stealth ship was lousy for getting hit by that slow poke.

The captain of the Jap ship should be hung from a yard arm.

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That skipper of the stealth ship was lousy for getting hit by that slow poke.

The captain of the Jap ship should be hung from a yard arm.

Don't position yourself in front of the boat if you don't wanna get hit.

Idiots.

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Yep, if a faster smaller vessel gets hit by a larger slower vessel, someone is an asshat.

Of course the japs wanted to hit them as well, that is also why there was no laws of the seas followed in the incident.

The whaling boat was bound by law to render assistance.

Even naval vessels will pick up survivors after sinking them.

UNLESS it is the Japanese navy in WWII, we returned the favor.

My dad knew this all too well from experience.

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Fucking narwhals!

What you say is reflective of your knowledge...HOW ya say it is reflective of your experience. Airtwardo

Someone's going to be spanked! Hopefully, it will be me. Skymama

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Why the Japanese do it...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/254177

Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting
If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh.

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That's priceless. "Fook you, dolphin and whale!"

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Whales are cool, sentient beings. But it's wrong to abuse any animal, and what goes on in factory farms is abuse, to provide cheap food for a self-indulgent (and often overweight) populace.

Wendy P.

I have been following the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for a little while now. I had never seen the Animal Planet series Whale Wars until a few months ago when I read the Sea Shepherd collision with the Yushin Maru was caught on film while they were filming the series. I had this avatar for a while during that time as a silent show of support and changed it back early this morning.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

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Should I post a picture of an apple and an orange or do you get the concept?

Japanese kill whales. Americans kill whales.

Your fruit is without seed.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

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Why the Japanese do it...

http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/254177

Damn you! You always post the south park clips before I can.

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It really is nice that he provided this money for the ship, I hate the fact that the Japanese claim they are harvesting whales for research, yet they kill so many and in protected waters.

There is no research going on, they kill them for a greedy and indulgent populace that will pay for the meat.

I say sink the bastards.

If it were me I would mount some torpedo tubes and let the games begin!

A MK48 would really put a stop to it.

I think he needs to donate the money to design a sub that looks like a big blue whale... and when the little fuckers from Japan try to stick it with a harpoon.. they get a nice little HE loaded torpedo right up their collective poop chute.

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I wonder if they are going to try to stop American whaling next? I.E. Inuit whaling.

I used to keep my 32' cabin cruiser at Neah Bay during all the crap when they killed a gray whale. It was parked at the head of the dock that my boat was moored on.

I think if it is a part of their culture to hunt whales.. so be it.. but respect your culture enough to do with with the means used in the times when that culture needed to hunt to survive.

Saying that.... I think they need to paddle the canoe out to the whaling grounds and not be towed there by a motor launch.

They also need to leave the Weatherby .460 rifle home.. and stick to the harpoons their culture used back before the arrival. After a few of the fuckers drown from the whales turning over their boats into the cold waters of the North Pacific.. the whale hunting will stop fairly fast.

All of that said... if people want to save the whales out there off the coast of Washington.. they just need to harpoon some of the obnoxious lazy fat little Makah whale hunters.

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I wonder if they are going to try to stop American whaling next? I.E. Inuit whaling.

I used to keep my 32' cabin cruiser at Neah Bay during all the crap when they killed a gray whale. It was parked at the head of the dock that my boat was moored on.

I think if it is a part of their culture to hunt whales.. so be it.. but respect your culture enough to do with with the means used in the times when that culture needed to hunt to survive.

Saying that.... I think they need to paddle the canoe out to the whaling grounds and not be towed there by a motor launch.

They also need to leave the Weatherby .460 rifle home.. and stick to the harpoons their culture used back before the arrival. After a few of the fuckers drown from the whales turning over their boats into the cold waters of the North Pacific.. the whale hunting will stop fairly fast.

All of that said... if people want to save the whales out there off the coast of Washington.. they just need to harpoon some of the obnoxious lazy fat little Makah whale hunters.

Some cultures still need it to survive to this day. By your logic we should still use hand tools to build our houses.

Have you ever bothered to find out how they use the whale? Like the Native Americans used the entire buffalo so does the Inuit peoples use almost all of the whale. IIRC, they don't really use the bones. Also, if I'm not mistaken, each tribe only takes 1 whale (maybe more depending on how big the village is) a year . I can't remember the exact name of the documentary but they had an hour long special on National Geographic Channel about the annual whale hunt of the Inuit people.

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I was talking about the Makah Tribe specifically... trust me on this.. they do not need to kill whales to survive. I kept my boat out there as my "Cabin at the Beach" for years.

I also saw how much of the animal was wasted

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>Some cultures still need it to survive to this day. By your logic we
>should still use hand tools to build our houses.

Well, if people were building their houses out of wood, and

1) there were only 1000 trees left anywhere in the world
2) there were plenty of alternatives available

then yes, it might make sense to require people who want wooden houses to build them with hand tools. Fortunately douglas firs are not in danger of going extinct.

>Like the Native Americans used the entire buffalo so does the
>Inuit peoples use almost all of the whale.

Not sure what the Inuit do, but the Inupiat don't. When we were up in Barrow a few years ago there were whale parts strewn all over the town rotting in the sun.