SYDNEY, Australia — A radical conservationist group on Saturday said it lobbed 25 bottles of rotten butter at Japanese whalers in the remote and icy Antarctic Ocean, but denied accusations they rammed their vessel in a violent attack.
Protesters aboard a boat operated by the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd threw the bottles — containing butyric acid, produced by rancid butter — Friday night at the Kaiko Maru whaling ship, which is conducting Japan’s research whaling program.
Japan’s Tokyo-based Institute of Cetacean Research described the protesters as terrorists and accused them of “menacing” and ramming the Kaiko Maru, causing minor damage to the whaling vessel. No one was injured in the showdown.
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