Cattie - "Whale Wars"

So, last night, I was watching Whale Wars on Animal Planet (it was the only thing on at 2am) and I was getting into it >D It's about the Sea Shepherds, a United Nations org. that are on the boat Steve Irwin (yess!) and hunting down whaling boats, i.e the evil Yushin Maru.


Whale poaching goes against the charter of the UN, which protects the whales in a certain sphere, but the Japanese (yes, since the boat is called Yushin Maru) believe that they're still allowed to poach a certain number. The whales are shot with harpoons, dragged aboard the ship, and canned. Yes. Canned right then and there and shipped back to Japan. And yes, they die slow, agonizing deaths. Whales, of course, are amazingly trusting, gentle creatures.

It's sad, but the United Nations is a joke. It is! No one wants to do anything when it comes to internationalism because it's such dangerous territory. While I was watching it, I felt mixed feelings of, "Gosh, we Americans always have to nose our way into everything", and "This is a crime against nature and we should all get involved."

What do you think?