"Jules Network Test" wrote in message
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I chose the words to the subject line very carefully, as it is the
Japanese
who eat whales and dolphins not out of necessity (unlike Innuits),
therefore
one could say that the subject matter raised questions about harvesting
depleting stock. It is beside the point to this alongside to what is
reared
for eating and that which is wild and, if hunted to today's quotas, will
oneday be extinct.
It is also hypocritical for Mr/Mrs/Ms Musashi to label myself a 'mental
retard' when he/she feels I have labelled the Japanese in an unfair
manner -
he/she must have as much regard towards the mentally challenged as for the
poor dolphins.
For the record, I have a lot of Japanese friends, both in and out of
Japan,
and they don't share pro whaling camp.


Sorry but I find your last statement lacking in credibility.
You say you chose your words carefully???
"What is it with the Japanese" means "what is wrong with the Japanese."
Your subject line does NOT mean "what is the Japanese attitude".
If you considered these words carefully I suggest you go back to school for
a remedial English class.
Furthermore, if you indeed have alot of Japanese friends both in and out of
Japan then any
one of them would have told you that porpoises are not customarily
considered food in Japan,
that you will never find it in any fish market or restaurant.
Had you been talking about whale, that would have been a different matter.
The striped dolphins (not bottle nosed clever intelligent Flipper dolphins
of TV fame)
were being killed because of competetion for fish. The same reason that
American Fishermam use
to shoot seals because of competition for salmon. Additionally much of
Japans fish stocks are farmed
in ocean pens which are attacked by the porpoises. Perhaps a better approach
should be taken to
solve the problem, but you posting a misleading subject line does nothing to
accomplish that.