Putain wrote:
> "James Silverton" > wrote in message
> news:O4E0j.9$Xg.1@trnddc06...
>
>>Wilson wrote on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:56:07 -0500:
>>
>> W> sometime in the recent past James Silverton posted this:
>> ??>> If, like me, you believe in the immorality of killing
>> ??>> sentient animals like whales for food, you may be appalled
>> ??>> by this URL: http://tinyurl.com/2vrw5o
>> ??>>
>> ??>> Japan's fisheries ministry said the fleet had instructions
>> ??>> to kill up to 1,000 whales, including 50 humpbacks.
>> ??>>
>> ??>> Japan was forced to abandon commercial whaling in 1986,
>> ??>> but has since carried out whaling for "scientific
>> ??>> research".
>> ??>>
>> ??>> Four whaling ships, including the lead craft Nisshin Maru,
>> ??>> will depart from the southern port of Shimonoseki.
>> ??>>
>> ??>> James Silverton
>> ??>> Potomac, Maryland
>> ??>>
>> ??>> E-mail, with obvious alterations:
>> ??>> not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not
>> W> Frankly James, I think there should be an immediate response
>> W> to this blatant violation of the world wide moratorium on
>> W> whale hunting. That's what it is - hunting. I get rather
>> W> ****ed at all the science that requires the killing of
>> W> animals to study them. But this isn't science, it's
>> W> harvesting.
>>
>>I wish it were possible to have such a boycott but I don't think
>>it will
>>happen :-(
>>
>>However, the Japanese company that owns the "Gortons of
>>Gloucester" fish company did feel pressured into giving up
>>whaling so there is hope!
>>
>>
>
>
> You two Whale lovers can go boycott Japanese products cause they eat whales.
> Me, I'd rather start by boycotting Chinese and Korean products first.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guVk8...eature=related
> I guess it's cause I never had a pet whale.
I guess I'd feel worse if dogs and cats were going extinct.. but they aren't.
They are an easily managed food source. They can reproduce very easily under
any conditions.. Whales cannot and are being harvested to extinction.
I don't condone the methods the Chinese and Koreans use to butcher their meats,
but its not the same as hunting whales. Just cuz its a dog or cat does not make
it inedible because you look at them as pets. People have pet fish, but here we
are eating sushi.
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Dan