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Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
The Japanese could quite rightly call into question the rap sheet of Great Britain regards animal welfare, treatment and environmental performance. For example, Japan has a large number of large predators living on it's islands, we don't because we wiped them out. Red Kites, beavers and marsh harriers have all had to be reintroduced in recent memory and to this day raptor persecution continues, so millionaires can shoot Grouse out of the sky. Don't get me started on Badgers.
On top of this there is the ecological disaster that is intensive farming in southern England, have a read of "The Running Hare" by John Lewis Stempel for a more expert view.
So, as an individual fine boycott what you want, but as a nation it would be brass necked to say the least for us to dictate to Japan.
There are so many injustices going on in the world that it’s impossible for any one person to devote enough time to have an impact on all of them. Therefore people have to choose what causes to support, based on their own criteria.
Does that mean there aren’t other, possibly more important, causes out there? Of course not. But you don’t walk into a cat shelter and scream at the staff, “do you realise people are dying in Africa right now!”
You just accept that they are least doing something, however small, to make the world a better place. If more people followed their example we might not be in such a mess.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
If the citizens of a foreign country or political bloc boycotted British products or services until we ceased and desisted from some activity of which they disapprove, how many of us would comply?
Most people only had an inkling of how much our foreign policy is hated around the world if they watched Eurovision after the last Gulf War.