Comments on: Japanese Whaling Redux: American Scientists Say Slaughter Was Unnecessary

By: Super Das G

Super Das G — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:32:37 +0000

I’d go ahead and eat Malcolm, but I fear he’d leave a nasty taste in my mouth.

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:56:59 +0000

While MG’s comments do carry weight it is no different to what the Japanese, Norweigens and Icelandics do.

It is a huge and complex subject which few “lay people” will give time to research and come to their own conclusions.

While whales are no different to cows, pigs etc….the same could be said of humans. It is only some form of morality that cannibalism is not tolerated in a civilized world.

But the Japanese particularly have twisted and turned on this issue. Especially with their vote shopping that is particularly repulsive as the results in those countries does not make for better managed fisheries locally, if anything it reinforces the it here now take it attitude.

By: Malcolm Green

Malcolm Green — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:38:15 +0000

As I said in the previous post on this subject, if people such as Scott Baker wish to claim that the “same finding” could have been made via other methods - the most persuasive way in which he could prove that he is right, is to actually go out there and make such findings with those supposedly adequate non-lethal methods he says are sufficient. Instead his sits in his laboratory and responds to enquiries from the anti-whaling dominated western media.

Hey, some people in the western world may fall for this but does he really think he’s going to convince the Japanese or Norwegians?

Instead of cloaking opinions in such garbage rhetoric, why don’t the anti-whaling people just admit the fact that they don’t like whaling, irrespective of whether it’s primary aim is to obtain information that can contribute to the conservation and management of whale stocks, or whether it is more directly for obtaining food? Either way, the whales are killed with harpoons and get eaten, so why the childish focus on semantics?

There’s nothing wrong with killing animals, and whales are not more special than cows pigs kangaroos or tuna.