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However the producers & editors of the show are guilty of seriously over-sensationalizing the events their cameras capture. A casual viewing of the show makes this much immensely clear.
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Yep. This is an excellent point. If you want a good example of how these reality show producers fuck with reality, go watch Ice Road Truckers season 3 ep 1. They made a missed downshift into a life or death "ohshitthey'reallgonnadie!" festival of idiocy. A downshift!
In fact, it's entirely possible that the helicopter and pilot were provided by the producers of the show.
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There is a sort of wishy-washy research loop-hole that Japan tries to use to make it's whaling look legal.
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Yeah. Collecting tissue samples. But they seem out to get a tissue sample from every whale in the ocean, which rather eliminates the point of getting a tissue sample in the first place.
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I believe what has been said earlier about the Japanese having no problem hunting whales to extinction is probably false. They don't want that; they like whale meat to much.
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They don't WANT to hunt whales to extinction, but they aren't WILLING to ease up on the hunting enough to make that happen. There's too much money to be made with whale meat, and the attitude is, if I don't kill this whale, someone else will, and then the whale's dead anyway and I don't make any money off of it.