Hope you're reaching into your pockets to support these idiots Macquack whilst we now have to pay several hundred thousand dollars to rescue them from the Southern Ocean.
So what do you suggest, start eating one another and not eat other meat. Whales are a food resource in a world running out of food. As an ex whaler I see no reason not to resume whaling now that the numbers of some species of whales have recovered. Should we stop eating cuddly lanmbs, chicken, pork and beef. Should we stop slaughtering cows because they are sacred to some races. Should we stop feeding our pet dogs horse and kangaroo meat.
If we tell others what they must do then do we accept that they have the right to tell us what we can and can not do?.
Live and let live. ( unless you need it for food)
I take it then that you are opposed to commercial fishing. Perhaps there is some spiritual quality about whales (or is it just their size) that makes us so passionate about them. Or is it because we enjoy catching and eating fish that we fool ourselves into believing that fish feel no pain when they are hooked and suffocated?
Or are we just hypocrites?
+1 JuliaWhat a thoroughly sensible suggestion.
I'm completely opposed to the whaling but am equally opposed to a bunch of self indulgent idjits who will jump at any excuse to "protest" about anything at all.
I'm disappointed the Japanese have been so lenient with them. They have already said they will do it all again.
As Logique said before me, the Japanese went about their legal business, legal by Japanese law, which is the only benchmark on a Japanese vessel in International waters. They could well be forgiven for tarring these trespassers with the terrorist brush.All three labels may even apply to the same group of people, depending on who judges.
Any living being that would slaughter another species to extinction in my opinion is not human. To be human is to be humane....
Isn't that a somewhat unconventional interpretation of "in front"?The poll shows the protesters in front the ASF lib brigade can't win nothin
Isn't that a somewhat unconventional interpretation of "in front"?
When I studied Maths, 33 out of 76 did not constitute a majority - unless of course you were a Bolshevik. They redefined "majority" not in terms of votes, but decibels. Look where that's got them
The poll shows the protesters in front the ASF lib brigade can't win nothin
That's because the left wing moderator closed the poll after they stacked the numbers!
No-one would seriously admit to voting Labor......would they??
The protestors are used to winning aren't they. And just what is the Occupy movement about, do they even know.The poll shows the protesters in front the ASF lib brigade can't win nothin
Labor stacking? Unheard of.
Speaking of whales anyone seen Joe Hockey
Great white whales are safe apparently...........BTW nice to see the Shepherd back in action go Captain Paul and crew give it to the Japanese whalers......I mean whaling scientists.
Captain Paul Watson
Tsunami
Neptune’s voice rolled like thunder thru the sky
Angrily he smote the deep seabed floor
From the shore echoed mankind’s mournful cry
……The sea rose up and struck fast for the shore
From out of the East with the rising sun
The seas fearful wrath burst upon the land
With little time to prepare or to run
Against a power no human can stand
I suggst you research the whaling operations that were in place in the 50s. You will find that there were reasonable sustainable quotas and bans on the taking of "scarce" varieties. These quotas would have kept the taking of whales as a normal business. The quota system was abused by Aristotle Onasis and in less than two years he decimated the herd. The Peruvian Government confiscated the whaling fleet belonging to Onassis.
Whaling was stopped on a voluntary basis by the whaling companies and nations to allow the numbers to return to a point where commercial whaling could again be resumed. That point has now been reached. However we see that animal liberationists and some vested interests like whale watching cruises have campaigned against that resumption.
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I suggest that I am "human and humane". I am also a meat eater and intend to stay one. ( Meat eaters make better lovers).
As you probably know whales only give birth to one calf per year so the replenishing of the herd could not keep up with the killing. After 11 years of whaling outside Cape Moreton the catch dimished to less than 300 in the 11 weeks. Whaling then not only became unviable but other synthetic products started to come onto the market..
According to that ratbag Watson the tsunami that killed hundreds of Japanese was divine wrath. The ravings of a hate filled lunatic.
http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/1...d-hundreds-of-japanese-was-divine-punishment/
No doubt he considers that harassing the Japanese is doing God's work. Incidentally, Focus, Watson is a Canadian. The Canadians did not participate in the Pacific war.
1. I've worked on whaling stations (plural) and was Production manager of one. I can talk from experience and not emotion. The catch at Tangalooma, along with the catch of other whalers was controlled and based on whale counts and allowed for the slow reproduction rate which is almost the same as that of cattle. Onassis ended SUSTAINABLE whaling.
2. Synthetic meat ???????. Synthetic edible oil ???????. Synthetic stock food ???????.
The only part of the whale that was replaced with synthetics was the balleen that was used to stiffen womens corsets.
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