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Why is it *shocking*? Because it is flipper? or because there is
*GASP*
blood? Usually when an animal is butchered, there is blood. The fact
that
it is done in a cove (very small area), makes it appear to be a SEA of
BLOOD (how very spectacular).
I wonder what it tastes like.
The subject line is offensive to Japanese people.
One could just as easily say "what it is with the American attitude to
this
kind of food?
http://www.ca4a.org/info/slaughterhouse/
In anycase, animals are slaughtered all over the world.
Eating animals crosses all cultural boundaries.
The original poster is a mental retard.
While I think eating dolphin is pretty awful (I feel the same way about
eating dogs, horses, monkeys, cats, and other animals with higher
reasoning
ability) I agree that the first poster's statement is offensive.
I live in the US. Lots of us here eat pig. However, many Americans
don't-
there is no 'American' attitude towards eating pork. Even if there were-
so
what? My personal feeling that eating certain foods is wrong does not mean
that people who eat certain foods are disgusting or evil. I don't think
Moslems are evil just because a bunch of them seem to want to have women
wear what looks to me like bedsheets, especially non-Muslims have some
pretty stupid, and in my mind barbaric, customs too.
Do I think killing dolphins is barbaric? Yes. I also think encouraging
women to get their chests cut open to put saline-filled bags inside is
barbaric, too. And forcing geese to eat until they nearly explode in
order
to enlarge their livers? Wicked. The sickest thing, though, is keeping
millions of animals penned up so that they can be tortured by milking
machines or force-fed grain, just so we can have milk and chicken.
All animal slaughter could be construed as evil- and usually is by
someone.
Actually, what I failed to mention earlier is that porpoise/dophin is NOT a
KNOWN JAPANESE FOOD.
In other words, if you go walking into a Japanese restaurant and ask for
Flipper don't be surprised if you
get laughed at.
I have eaten whale in Japan, and there have been reports that some dishonest
merchants have been selling
porpoise/dolphin meat falsely labeled as "whale". It is also possible that
in some remote places it is in fact
eaten. The article mentioned porpoise being canned. Perhaps but I have never
seen any in cans or at fish markets
in Japan. I was of the belief that the real reason that some fishermen kill
porpoises was for the same reason that
American fishermen use to kill seals..that they competed for the fish.