Whale Wars

Check out this trailer for a new Animal Planet show called Whale Wars. The premise is that a group of people (from the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) are trying to deter Japanese ships from whale hunting, while simultaneously dismantling larger-scale plans for the Japanese to commence in full-scale commercial whaling.

There has been a lot of controversy surrounding Japanese whaling, but the official Japanese stance/defense is that they hunt the whales in the name of research, and they are very obviously not pleased with the (non-violent) intrusion when the Sea Shepherd crew shows up to confront them. Hmm. I will add that I've seen whale sashimi here in Japan more than once, but I guess you can form your own opinions and morals about this topic. For now, it looks like a good show, if nothing less:



The show premiers on November 7.