Last weekend Greenpeace sent two ships icebreakers from Cape Town to turn the hunt on the Japanese whalers.
He told the assembled meeting, they roared with laughter, put a statement out to the press and Greenpeace was suitably chastised.
Greenpeace's size and centralized power structure gives it tremendous muscle that smaller grassroots groups cannot match.
Even today Icelanders commonly support whaling, and visits by Greenpeace are greeted with people barbecuing whale meat.
For environmentalist organizations like Greenpeace to be against GMO in all its forms under all conditions does nothing at all to serve them or the constituencies they purport to represent.
