The following article I read, Neptune's Navy by Raffi Khatchadourian. It is about how Paul Watson and 52 other volunteers are on a mission to save the Whales. Sea Shepherd Is an organization with about 52 volunteers. There main mission is to stop whale slaughtering. The Japanese is majorly known for killing whales in the Antarctica Ocean. So the Sea Shepherd boat goes out attacks the Japanese slaughtering boat, and to them it doesn't matter if they are breaking the law or not they take action for what they believe in. "Watsons willingness to risk lives or injury for his beliefs (or for publicity), and his courage (or recklessness) have earned him both loathing and veneration from those who are familiar with his activism."

The reason the Japanese were killing whales off from the Antarctica ocean is to help harvest."In the winter of 2005 they killed MORE than a thousand whales"The Japanese government says, "There are plenty of whales out there and it is no more terrible than killing cows or pigs for food," said Masaaki Shigeno, a property dealer in his 60s.Whale has been an important part of our diet for hundreds of years, so it is part of our culture."

I do wonder if it really is such an important part of their culture that they have to kill so much every season. Toshiko Marks, who is a professor of multicultural understanding at Shumei University, said: "I don't know anyone sensible who honestly says they like to eat whale meat. I hate it because I was forced to eat it as a child immediately after the war because there was not much else. But if you ask young people, they've never tasted whale and don't want to."