Whale wars

[IFocus]

Celebrations tonight, will break out a new cask of the finest red.

Hopefully a win for whales and a step in the right direction for protecting a wild species quite a rare event these days still the PM of Japan is a nationalist so anything is possible.

 

[CanOz]

Yeah, if Japan does the right things and stops whaling, there can't be a bad thing come from it for a long while...I don't see why they need to keep harvesting these beautiful creatures. Its not comparable to Wagyu beef, or even Tuna. These are truly magnificent creatures.

 

[McLovin]

Yeah, if Japan does the right things and stops whaling, there can't be a bad thing come from it for a long while...I don't see why they need to keep harvesting these beautiful creatures. Its not comparable to Wagyu beef, or even Tuna. These are truly magnificent creatures.

Isn't this what the Japanese were calling "cultural imperialism"? You fish and hunt don't you, Can? Switzerland and Germany have banned catch and release because they consider it inhumane and cruel. They've also instituted things like no barbed hooks and no live bait. Should Australia follow suit? After all, if we're going around telling other countries not to be cruel to animals we probably shouldn't be allowing fishing for sport.

 

[IFocus]

Isn't this what the Japanese were calling "cultural imperialism"? You fish and hunt don't you, Can? Switzerland and Germany have banned catch and release because they consider it inhumane and cruel. They've also instituted things like no barbed hooks and no live bait. Should Australia follow suit? After all, if we're going around telling other countries not to be cruel to animals we probably shouldn't be allowing fishing for sport.

Moral issue of cruelty and or sustainability of species.

Helps for your survival but no guarantee if you are cute and cuddly having gills doesn't cut it.

Australia culturally isn't ready for a fishing ban based on cruelty I would think, it wasn't ready for banning whaling in the 60's but changed dramatically in the 70's (must have been all that dope smoking).

How do you change 2 million years of genes that say go forward and hunt?

 

[Calliope]

Yeah, if Japan does the right things and stops whaling, there can't be a bad thing come from it for a long while...I don't see why they need to keep harvesting these beautiful creatures. Its not comparable to Wagyu beef, or even Tuna. These are truly magnificent creatures.

Killer Whales (orcas) ane the most beautiful and probably the most intelligent animals in the ocean. To see what we are doing to them watch the documentary Blackfish.

 

[Julia]

After all, if we're going around telling other countries not to be cruel to animals we probably shouldn't be allowing fishing for sport.

+1.

How do you change 2 million years of genes that say go forward and hunt?

What nonsense. Our genes adapt to our environmental conditions. We are no longer back in the days of hunters and gatherers.
Fishing and hunting is nothing more in this country than a sport for bored human beings. Nothing at all to with need for food.
Just another example of how inadequate human beings boost their attempt to feel superior over another species.