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goods we do so I'm unsure why they need to go kill whales ?
It's just one more thing though in an ever growing list of things that will bring our doom eventually. Long term with the ever growing population, global warming, extinction of half the jungle and rain forest species plus what ever lives on both polar caps, ocean filled with plastic etc I doubt there will be much to celebrate in the year 3000
same rules apply, you must hunt on horseback whilst in full clobber. Boats are unsportsmanship.
Let’s hope China doesn’t take up whaling because that would be 95% of Asda, Tesco, Aldi, Lidl, etc etc
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
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The sad thing here is that most Japanese people have no interest in whaling. A few may have eaten whale at some point or other -- as a curiosity -- but it's a long way from being any part of the staple diet. Japanese whaling is kept up by the same little bunch of right-wingers who insist on doctoring the history textbooks. Maybe this explains why whalemeat is part of the rations issued to the 'SDF' (ie the Japanese army). Sadly, these right-wingers have a disproportionate level of political influence. And as with the comfort women issue, they can point at the huge levels of humbug, hypocrisy and misrepresentation offered by the opposition. This makes it easier for them to defend what is, I agree, a pretty despicable practice.
But on a world scale, I agree that plastic is more of a problem. Not to mention the consumption of meat, generally (and I am not a vegetarian).
Anyway, we buy plenty of stuff from countries that eat dogs, and they are more loved by humans, and are of similar intelligence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean_intelligence
Time to give up your tech gadgets:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/39577557/the-countries-where-people-still-eat-cats-and-dogs-for-dinner
This is true - however, from my experience at work I'd say that China is getting more and more engaged in global waste and green energy markets. That's not to say they're there yet (I don't think anywhere truly is) but they are advancing technology and, to some extent, culture, towards this goal.
There is a long way to go. With regards to whaling, they will become more endangered - shareholders will *like* this. The bluefin tuna industry is the same - there are warehouses full of frozen bluefin waiting for them to become even more critically endangered in order to realise an investment.
Not good. But I don't think we can hold a moral glow stick - we just need to engage, globally, on the issues at hand. Maintenance is hard work.
The reason it’s wrong to kill a whale is because they are highly intelligent, sophisticated animals. By killing a whale you’ve denied it the life it would have gone on to live. It could also be a mother, so there could also be other unintended consequences in killing it. Pigs are also intelligent animals, at least as intelligent as dogs. Would you be okay with killing dogs humanely?
The idea that humans are somehow distinct from other animals so that makes it okay to kill animals but not humans is complete nonesense. We just happen to be the most intelligent species on the planet (allegedly). That might give us more responsibility but it doesn’t give us any more right to be here per se or to use animals for our own means.
When we needed to eat animals just to survive that’s one thing but now we eat animals to get fat and ultimately it’s making us ill, it’s unsustainable and it is destroying the planet and contributing to climate change. If the human species wants to survive we will have to stop eating meat, at least at the unsustainable level we do now.
Merry Christmas everyone!
The flip side is the sudden trend in veganism has led to deforestation for soy plantations leading to mass flooding, and perpetual drought in california to grow almonds.
We just can't get it right.
But I’m not aware of the Chinese being nasty to whales, so I guess we can let that one pass.