Humpback Whales now being hunted

I thought the USS Enterprise did something to stop that back in the 80s.

Seriously - I usually regard the Japanese as a fairly intelligent species.

Then they start this again? WTF.

If any country should appreciate conservation - it's Japan - or are they forgetting about all the natural resources they DON'T HAVE on that island?

 

I think there's too much double standards over what animals get hunted/eaten. If you've not a meat eater fair enough, but if you eat cows and sheep etc then what's the difference?

 

Are you joking? You can't possibly be saying that hunting whales that were on the brink of extinction is the same thing as farming cattle and sheep for food?

 

People here in NZ are also trying to put a stop to this. Another organisation for info or to support:

http://www.seashepherd.org/migaloo/

 

Just the numbers and conservation thing to me blows the cows bit out entirely.

When the Japanese start raising their own Humpback whales by the million, feeding and isolating them from the wild Whale population - your arguement might hold a little ground.

But as is - that is no comparison whatsoever.

 

I'm going to boycott all Japanese products until this stops. No Wii for us this Christmas, the Blu-Ray player is out, and my next motorbike will be a European brand (most likely a Triumph).

 

I just think it's very sad.

 

how is one death more cruel than another?

but this is very sad. i like animals

 

Just about every death is cruel to an extent - because every creature has the instinct to survive.

Though - some deaths are more "humane" than others. A 30 minute puncture-wound / blood loss death I could imagine is worse off than a cow getting bled.

But - as much as I hate them - Scorpions are eaten alive by people - and many don't think twice because they're just "creepy bugs"...

Let's not forget our supermarket chicken abortions we purchase by the dozen.

We do have a lot of double standards when it comes to this.

 

A quick point here. Most chicken farms don't keep roosters with the hens, meaning the eggs are unfertilised. This makes their eggs closer in nature to a period than an abortion.

 

I know. I should have axed that line.

I HAVE had real eggs (non chicken / egg factory eggs) and have gotten a couple that the rooster DID get to before we did.

But... We do "force" the chickens into ovulation - so it is kinda somewhere in between. I mean, if we were to force a woman into continual menstrual cycles until she ran out of eggs and became sterile - ethically that isn't very right. With chickens - that happens after a few weeks - they go to "Tyson's" farm next. We don't "run them out" but once the quality of egg produced degrades to a certain extent - off to Drumsticks they go.

 

*cough*Ducati*cough*

I was planning to have an omelette this evening

 

And park it outside on the street? Are you mad?

You could have had it with cheese too. Do you want me to go into what that really is?

 

Yeah, and what kind of WEIRD SICK FREAK has omelets for DINNER?

How uncivilized.

 

Put it under a Piaggio cover.

You can't get me with that. It's made of the moon!!

 

yeah, all that talk makes me think twice about eating eggs now

 

Oh well, looks like it's whale meat again then

 

This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. On our little farm, I have between 5 and 12 chickens for free range eggs (commercial eggs are gross!) and they lay almost every day naturally (without ever being exposed to a rooster) from 5 months of age until 18 months, when they molt. After the molt they will continue laying until the next molt. And so on until they die. Even if there is a rooster present if you collect the eggs every day, you don't get anything surprising in there.

I don't know if you realize this, but women already do have a menstrual cycle continually until they become sterile.

 

Quite right, it's just that the cycle for chickens is a lot shorter than for humans.

 

I will back you up on this one. We raised chickens when I was a kid and they continually would lay eggs even if the rooster wasn't around. For a while, our rooster was causing problems in the hen house so we kept him away for a time and there was no lack in egg production.

 

Sorry for the chicken stuff - I don't believe killing whales is OK, either.