Ari Ane

Vegane woman/animal rights /cruelty free /love and respect for alls animals 🐰🐶🐱🐵🐼🐷🐮🦁🐯🐺🦊🐧🐦🐗🐴🦓🦒🦌🐝🦋🐌🐞🐬🦈🐳🐊🐆🐃🐂🦅🦆🐎🐿️🐾🦔🦇🐓🦃🦏🐘🐫🐄🌿🌱🌻🌹🌎🌍🌏

[Ari Ane @AriAgathe13]

To the whaling nations #japan #Iceland #Norway Whales are not yours to kill. It's that simple #OpWhales

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Whale prices at the current catch limits aren't nearly enough to pay for the expenses of the whaling itself. #Japan #OpWhales

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In 2008, whale watching in #Japan generated ¥1.76 billion (Us$22 million) in total revenue. #OpWhales

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#Japans whale watching industry has grown strongly, at an annual average rate of 6.4 percent #OpWhales

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#Japan’s commercial whaling is like a bad dream from which the rest of the world cannot wake up. #OpWhales

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14,000 whales killed by #Japan since 1988 far exceed the total of all other countries’ scientific whaling programmes combined #OpWhales

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#Japans government developed scientific whaling as a means to continue commercial whaling #OpWhales

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payments were made to delegates in envelopes prior to IWC meetings covering air fares, rooms and entertainment Plus .. #OpWhales

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#Japan government has engaged in a concerted effort to change the direction of the IWC by bribing members to vote on its side #OpWhales https://t.co/5I1raLxQmD

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only 11% of #Japanese strongly believe whaling is their cultural right #OpWhales

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Only 27% of respondents in #Japan say they support whaling #OpWhales

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85% expressed opposition to the use of billions of taxpayer yen to build a new whaling factory ship #OpWhales

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89% of Japanese say they have not bought any whale meat in the last 12 months #OpWhales

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¥2.28 billion was taken from tsunami relief to renovate the #Japanese whaling fleet. #OpWhales

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earthquake reconstruction funds to the tune of ¥2.28 bil (US$28.55mil) were diverted from tsunami relief to support whaling #OpWhales https://t.co/IUVkLY3NM5

[Ari Ane @AriAgathe13]

Over the past 25 years,whaling subsidies have cost #Japanese taxpayers more than ¥30 billion (almost US$400 million). #OpWhales

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#Japans whaling continues to operate at a loss. Whaling simply is not commercially viable #OpWhales

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#Japan whaling subsidies average around ¥782 million (US$9.78 million) annually #OpWhales

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#Japans whaling fleet is heavily subsidised by taxpayer money funnelled through the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR) #OpWhales

[Ari Ane @AriAgathe13]

Commercial whaling in #Japan is an industry that is not profitable, that is able to exist only because of taxpayer subsidies #OpWhales