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Your opinion on whaling
Topic Started: Jan 31 2014, 06:57 PM (1,369 Views)
Tyrannocanthosaurus
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Banned for being rude.

I've been absent for a while ever since the incident, but I'm starting over.
I'm here to discuss whaling, what's your opinion on it? I think commercial whaling should halt completely, and the only subsistance whaling I support is the one in Lembata, mainly because the people there can't survive without it.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

In my opinion, fuck the Japanese and all the industrial whalers. They have no need of it.
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Furka
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whaling could have been understandable centuries ago, but it's of no use now (please don't tell me you believe japanese do that for science).
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Mastodon28
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Humans have no reason at all to whale, they just like the killing -.-
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

It's the one factor why I don't like Japan when it comes to wildlife and ecosystem....


However, the traditional whaling is fine thought, as long as they don't focus on endagered species.
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Elephas Maximus
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Aboriginal whaling is OK at Northern Hemisphere (Alaska, Russian Far East) as long as they don't exceed the quota number.
Hunting smaller species like dolphins & pilot whales is not good. Leaving aside moral issues (it's much more easy to consider a dolphin to be appealing than a huge leviathan), the dolphins shouldn't be hunted these days since their meat is quite polluted, so eating it is bad for your health. Dolphins, being apex predators above medium-sized fishes (while those eat smaller plankton-eating fishes), accumulate all the pollutants in their bodies.
While baleen whales, feeding directly on plankton and living in a more healthy environment of polar waters, are more good to eat. But due to their scarcity, we should leave them only to natives.
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Furka
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Not so sure polar waters are safer, didn't scientist find tracks of pollution in the tissues of seals and polar bears ?

Still, sometimes I wonder if pollution really scares people: I've seen people eating fish caught from the Arno river which was lifeless about 20 years ago and it's still highly polluted, to the point eating McDonalds stuff would be healthier. And while a lot of people are just plain ignorant, many do know the state of the river ...
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Tyranachu
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I don't like how it's done.

But of course, there's no simple and humane way to kill a huge whale.



...But personally, an itsy-bitsy part of me wants to try whale meat.
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Tyranachu
Feb 1 2014, 07:31 AM
I don't like how it's done.

But of course, there's no simple and humane way to kill a huge whale.



...But personally, an itsy-bitsy part of me wants to try whale meat.


When it's impossible to return a stranded cetacean into the sea, the animal is usually shot in the brain or, as a more humane & modern way, receives a lethal injection. Which is far more expensive when it comes to whales... and the meat of euthanized animal becomes non-edible.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/31/us/beached-whale/

If you wanna snack on the whale, visit Alaska when season comes :)
But never eat Japanese whales, they taste bad.
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Pull my finger!

I still don't understand why these whales are being killed. The meat is toxic, some species are endangered, etc. and etc. Even though some people use guns, many do the skewering harpoon technique, which I'm sure causes a lot of pain to the animal reflected on.
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Tyrannocanthosaurus
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I question if the Inuits actually need it, however, the Lamalera of Indonesia do in fact need it.
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Elephas Maximus
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Inuits' environment can't allow plant farming, and they don't breed like rabbits, while Indonesians have a good climate and no birth control.
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Tyrannocanthosaurus
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Well certain inuit do, others like the ones in Alaska went a century without it.
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hananas59
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Death to the people who hunt whales. That's my opinion
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Elephas Maximus
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hananas59
Feb 1 2014, 03:42 PM
Death to the people who hunt whales. That's my opinion
You're supposing to kill the last pureblood Inuit then... those who gave up their traditional lifestyle and whaling are moving to cities and mixing up their genes with other nations.
While speaking about Japanese, a death of several thousand fishermen/whalers would be a benefit to the isles' half-eaten ecosystem.
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