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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7099720.stm
I know there has been alot of controversy surrounding Japans whaling. Do they really need 1000 whales for 'scientific research'? Why are they so stubborn to keep doing it if they're not making profit? I don't really know much about it so I'm keen to see what you think of it.
I know there has been alot of controversy surrounding Japans whaling. Do they really need 1000 whales for 'scientific research'? Why are they so stubborn to keep doing it if they're not making profit? I don't really know much about it so I'm keen to see what you think of it.
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Interestingly enough, whale meat apparently tastes pretty disgusting (and that's ignoring the levels of mercury in it that probably make it equivalent to eating poison). Friend of a friend works in a Japanese school, and one day, the lunch was a mystery meat. The kids didn't know what it was, most were spitting it out over their desks. But because it's so disgusting, it doesn't even sell that well, so sits in warehouses (never mind the unprofitability, it's something the government heavily subsidises). So no one eats it, (I think the newest idea is to put it in pet food) but the same people will furiously fired up if you question their right to hunt for it.
I am opposed to Whaling, we should just send subs to go and sink Japan's whaling fleet.
I'd have a lot more respect for them if they'd just admit why they want to do it (tradition) rather than coming up with some phoney, bullshit excuse. It's like the people who claimed that fox-hunting was actually about pest control, rather than having a nice day out riding horses and killing small animals. Fair enough, we might disagree, but at least have the balls to admit that you go hunting because you enjoy it and no other reason.
A) They are protected and they may well die out if we kill too many
They aren't used for anything, the meat just sits around because people dont want it and they dont use the whale for anything else
To me, its the way that they are killed.
The whales are not neatly dispatched with a 'bolt to the brain' as cattle are in an abattoir, but are harpooned with an explosive head which can hit the animal anywhere - causing huge pain and suffering - before it finally drowns or succumbs to blood loss.
Its a nasty, cruel way of killing an animal but these are highly intelligent and sensitive creatures. The Japanese ought to be ashamed of themselves. The Norwegians ain't that much better, come to think of it.
This is far more of a cultural thing than a business thing, Japanese leaders want people to eat it because they think its part of their culture - the people however realise it tastes like crap and dont want it.
So it wont sell and without a subsidy, it won't be worth hunting...