The Japanese are still going to slaughter 700+ whales this year. "Scientific research"....they must think the rest of the world is mentally retarded.....this is the sort of "scientific research" that McDonalds does to potatoes by creating 'fries with that'.
And we dick-head Aussies still let them refuel their killing machines in our ports...and much of the killing goes on in Australian territorial waters...[Antarctica] ....
I don't know why we don't impound their ships like we do with the Indonesian fishing boats.....maybe it's because we're wimps...or maybe it's because whales aren't fish....
Mr fudoshi ...the 'dick-head' comment can be laid squarely at Little Johnnie Howard's feet....he's too busy sucking up to Bush one moment and not wanting to stand up for himself [us] against anyone North of here the next.
BTW....I'm an Aussie...so hence the 'we dickhead Aussies'...
To translate...what the Japs call 'scientific research' the rest of the civilised world calls 'farming'...or 'hunting for food'.
Trick is...they don't NEED whale meat....but, like killing minks for coats or hunting foxes for 'sport' they do it for its commercial benefit.
Anyone want to kill elephants for their ivory to keep rich colonials in silverware handles?
Anyone want to kill Tigers for their testicles for an aphrodisiac?
Anyone want to kill Rhinos for similar with their horns?
So...some overly spoiled upper-class twit from Nippon can have fun sucking on dead whale and they call it 'research'.
Personally, I can think of a much more fun 'sport'....let's all go whaler-hunting....see how many slaughterhouses we can sink.....after all...it's OUR Territorial waters.
Actually...we could get the French Govt to do it...they are expert....they sank the Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand.....only killed one person....
That'll do it...
| And we dick-head Aussies |
Don't quite be so harsh on all y'all:
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The nations voted 30-27 for an Australian resolution that said Japan's plan should be withdrawn unless the new research can be conducted without killing the whales. The resolution also called for a review of the results of the current research program.
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thank you
Mr fudoshi...clearly you're not reading clearly. I am an Australian....always have been....born Currie, King Island 1954.
I am NOT an American calling people names...I am an Aussie calling MYSELF and my elected Government names....though I'd never vote for Cardigan Man [our Liberal PM]...not even if my life depended on it...
Bichur ...unfortunately the chances are that Japan will simply ignore the vote...and probably just leave the 'association' and do their own thing...regardless of public opinion.
IF their hip-pocket can be hurt through trade sanctions....or AT LEAST denying them their refuelling in Australia then maybe it'd be more than a bunch of talking heads going 'tut-tut, how horrid' and putting their collective hands up as a show of displeasure.
That'll do something less than ZERO without real definitive action. Nothing short of scuttling the whaling fleet will see our Global Community progress any further from the 19th century barbarism of Specie decimation we've all apparently NOT learned from.
http://www.planetsave.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5981&Itemid=1
| I would gladly send them $3.50 us (price of a whaleburger) every week to keep them from killing any at all. |
Me too. I don't mean to be ugly about other countries, but they have some very bizarre tastes in meat in the Orient. They ate those monkeys and got that horrible epidemic of disease from it. They also boil cats alive and skin them alive so they can have fresh meat at the restraunts. Simular to ordering fresh lobster. They keep the cats in cages till they need them to fill an order. May God strike me dead if I were to ever think that my tastebuds should be gratified by killing a cat or whale or horse for eating. These are not described in the bible as one of the animals we are to eat. America needs to stop killing the horses and stop supporting these countries that have no regard for life. There are enough poor animals in horrid conditions being slaughtered for food. It will make ya sick.
"Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you"
Utilizing animals for food and flippant disregard for life are two very different things.
| Utilizing animals for food and flippant disregard for life are two very different things. |
Thank you. You're absolutely right, Bill.
Sorry CLwoods - I'm one of those guys that likes to go hunting. I have a killer instinct. I love beef, pork, chicken. I can't stand seafood though - the smell is disgusting. So I guess I could care less how my food gets killed.
Anyhow - humans were made to eat meat - look at your teeth - they are made to shread meat.
If you know your Bible then you know that your primary call is to God, then to your neighbour, everything should come from that, including the stewardship of the environment and care of the earth -that's what the Torah says, let alone the Gospels.
I can't in good consciense fight to save animals before helping out the person on the street who begs to be fed and sleeps on a bench in the street in winter.

I mention it because I've probably been one of the worst offenders.
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