Whale Wars

About the two coolest things you can do right now to be not only involved in, but ahead of the environmental movement is to become Vegan and to support the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Both are grass roots society’s that have deep roots in the protection of our earth’s fragile ecosystem.

Every second word I hear now a days is about being green. Yet the hardest, but most effective choice in actually being green is to halt the use and abuse of all animal products. This is one of the cornerstones of environmental teachings and has now become a United Nations guideline for the optimal choice in living green. Somebody driving their gas guzzling Hummer around all day still doesn’t come close to the C02 emissions that a meat eating human being does.

In the same way that eating meat is just not hip or cool, Greenpeace is also sliding in popularity among the modern activists. Greenpeace has done a lot of great things and continues to do so, but their multi million dollar industry doesn’t get close to the activities and accomplishments that Sea Shepherd does. Paul Watson immediately turns their small and limited funding into direct action against illegal fishing operations. But Greenpeace has their hands tied with their multi million dollar beneficiary’s. Greenpeace, cofounded by Captain Watson himself, became too much about publicity and politics for Paul, so he started fresh by becoming a Shepherd of the Sea, so named by The Georgia Straight in the 1970’s.

Paul Watson, Shepherd of the Sea, advocates for the animals of the planet and specializes in the unregulated, unchartered areas that are ocean bound. Captain Watson is also a Vegan. So are his crew and so are all of his working ships while out on the frigid Antarctic waters. Captain Watson supports Veganism because he loves life. He loves this planet and lives his truth as he risks his life repeatedly while protecting the whales, dolphins, seals and all the other unknown species that still have some remaining habitat left. If you want to get a glimpse into the life and work of this legendary, yet still largely unknown man tune into Animal Planet on November 7th IN the US and November 9th in Canada. . This 7 part series called Whale Wars shows the real life adventures that he and his crew endure and live through in dealing with the mofia and corporate style fishing industry. This is no movie. This is real the thing: http://animal.discovery.com/tv/whale-wars/

Amanda Daniell