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Message: SuperVegan Presents "Blog of a Vegan Pirate"  



SuperVegan is thrilled to be publishing Tod Emko's "Blog of a Vegan Pirate." Tod took to the seas in February-March of 2008 to battle illegal Japanese whaling as part of Operation Migaloo, Sea Shepherd's Antarctic anti-whaling campaign. He's blogging his adventures now on SuperVegan, with excerpts from his journals and lots of photographs.

Read along with Tod's adventures as he journeys from Australia to Antarctica and describes battles on the high seas and shipboard life.

* Read Tod's first blog entry
* Read all entries in "Blog of a Vegan Pirate"

Tod's Introduction to "Blog of a Vegan Pirate"

Like a lot of other people I know, I wanted to save the whales when I was a kid. But after I grew up, I didn't realize that they STILL need to be saved, since whaling was illegal and all. And I'm starting to realize a lot of people don't know that whales are still being hunted as if they're not endangered. More importantly, it seems a lot of people have no idea that there's something they can do to directly stop it. But there is.

I recently went to Australia and got on a ship with 32 other people from around the world (like Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, South Africa, and Canada, among others). We all went to Antarctica on the Sea Shepherd vessel the Steve Irwin, to confront and stop the Japanese federally-funded whaling juggernaut that consisted of eight ships, hundreds of crew members, military personnel, guns, grenades, armor, military shields, and tear gas bombs. We were armed with absolutely nothing but one old, broken down ship, some beer bottles filled with rotten butter, some slippery white powder, and - perhaps most importantly - the authority to stop illegal poaching that you and I and all individuals on earth have under the UN World Charter for Nature (pay close attention to sections 21-24). Sailing down there with a paltry arsenal and relatively few people who even ever served on a ship before, we defeated the whaling flee! t. Even Japan eventually admitted we stopped them from harpooning 500 whales.

Our whale blog shows people the type of obstacles we had, the everyday type of people we are, the size of the beast we were up against, and how we could all still beat the bullies who shot at us from a ship eight times our size. Each blog post is an email I've sent from the ship to friends in America, so they speak conversationally about daily life and the interesting things that come up, and each post is accompanied by some photos from the trip. The most important point to all this is that anyone can become a pirate and save a corner of the world; all they have to do is decide to do it.

Tod and crew will also soon appear on the Animal Planet series Whale Wars.

Read Tod's "Blog of a Vegan Pirate"


Enjoy!
Team SuperVegan


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