Environment
A definition of industry
Richard Butler
When I am found by the RSPCA to have starved horses or dogs or mistreated them – I can be charged with a variety of offences and ultimately imprisoned.
It is an example of the law working usefully to protect animals.
When poachers shoot elephants and saw off the tusks and lower legs from the corpses – the law is invoked. Poachers are imprisoned and their equipment confiscated. They can also be shot
In Tasmania – taking undersize abalone or crayfish is illegal with increasingly serious and harsh penalties ultimately resulting in imprisonment. It is an example of the law working usefully to protect the species. Its illegal to take female crayfish at certain times of their development.
But if you’re from Japan and you build a ship big enough to kill whales – including females in calf – and it has a gun on the front that is big enough to shoot and explosive device deep inside their bodies – you’re called an “industry” .