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May 31, 2008
Profiles in Countermoonbattery: Turkish Fishermen
Posted by Van Helsing at May 31, 2008 9:04 AM
Next time you open a can of StarKist, thank Turkish fishermen:
Turkish tuna fishermen rammed their boat into a Greenpeace ship Friday and pelted it with lead fishing weights, the environmental group said. No one was injured.
The fishing vessel was among several that swarmed the Arctic Sunrise, which was carrying activists campaigning against overfishing in the Mediterranean. The boat rammed the Greenpeace ship at high speed, said Yesim Aslan, a spokeswoman for the group.
The barrage of lead weights damaged a helicopter that the activists had used earlier in the day to document the vessels' activities, Aslan said.
The Greenpeace militants are demanding that Turkey turn tuna fishing territory into a "marine reserve." The fishermen are demanding to be left alone so they can make a living and put food on people's tables.
No doubt the activists are enraged at the way big old tuna are squished into those tiny little cans.
Sorry, Charlie. Greenpeace can't stop people from eating you.
Hat tip: Free Republic; on a tip from Cheetah.
