Its Culling…. damm looks like nature got some revenge today.

my heart goes out to all the japaneese in this tsunami.

maybe the dolphins could of helped you to shore or stoped you from drowning?? oh wait u killed them all.

Peace.

If you talk with the japanese, eating dolphin is not apart of their Eastern notions either. The MAJORITY of japan doesn’t eat dolphin. Period.

They’re slaughtering out of defiance and profit. Plain and simple. To sell mercury meat to the masses without their knowledge.

I saw a video where this little Hayden twat was prattling on all teary-eyed about how the dolphins looked like “teddy bears”. I mean, give me a break! Teddy bears!? What a gag!

I think her juvenile pampered American ass should be barred from ever coming back to Japan (or any country with a different culture that might offend her delicate sensibilities)!

I believe it’s generally considered rather tasty. A flavour like pork, but very tender due to the relative lack of exercise. The chief difficulty I see in adding Homo sapiens to the burger menus is killing them before they get nervous and their bodies flood with adrenalin, making the meat tough. Also, will KFC be accused of racism if it continues to label its products as “white meat” and “dark meat”?

“This is not like a rodent who multiplies by
the week or month”

So you would advocate that we all start eating rats?

much as it afronts my sensibilities, if they are eating the meat, as a non-vegetarian i have to shut up. living a free life in the ocean, up until a horrible death is a whole lot better than being stuck in an overcrowded, stressful steel cage, stuffed full of antibiotics and mauled by my fellow aggravated prisoners and then suffering a horrible death. maybe we should think twice before we enjoy yakiniku and opt for the dolphin instead as a more humane option.

Here’s some videos of Japanese press building up hype about Heroes:

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2421

http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=2624

Nice to know that the tone of the debate here is so civilised….

“most of the countries that eat beef are open about their practices whereas the Japanese government know that what they are doing is wrong which is why they try to cover up and veil it under ’scientific research”

You gotta be kidding, right? The real reason they do this is because they signed the IWC protocols which, by the way, were never about Saving The Whales as such, but about making sure that stocks didn’t run out too fast – in other words, the IWC was set up to manage whale stocks for whaling, not to protect them as endangered species. However the moratorium has taken on the mantle of saving a species through publicity campaigns etc. The IWC specifically left a small amount of whaling legally open through this scientific research. If Japan was serious about whaling, then it is perfectly free to leave the IWC and catch what it wants. There is absolutely nothing comparable with raising and slaughtering beef – no ICC (International Cattle Commission) to try and keep stocks high, and the only people that get upset about it are those nutjobs at PETA.

I don’t defend this as a cultural practice, I defend it as a legal one. But if the dolphins were killed in the most humane ways possible, would that then be acceptable?

“Someone should hack those fishermen into little pieces.”
Is this a death threat? Are you actually calling for their deaths in a violent way?

They aren’t doing anything positive as you suggest they are. 23,000 dolphins sounds like a huge number but when compared to the rest of the populations of dolphins in this world it is very sustainable. They make mention of ‘baby dolphins’ in this article, but what proof do they have that the fishermen killed babies? Does the Daily Mail assume that it knows more about fishing that fisherman? Wouldn’t fisherman wish to go about their business in a sustainable manner? It seems to me that it is much easier to go to this place and make a show like you are doing something important for your cause when in reality it was rather easy and you had no real threat to yourself.

This is big news all over America right now so I suppose the end desired was achieved. All in all, the sensational footage is ridiculous. This has nothing to do with the environment and everything to do with a photo op for this girl and others. As I said before, if they were worried about the environment and the livelihood of a species why aren’t they in China? Don’t dodge the question, it is a legitimate question to ask.

Why? Are these dolphins in danger of extinction? The Daily Mail article gives no hint of that. In fact it’s more than a little one-sided, referring to the “dolphin massacre” (would the Daily Mail refer to the regular “sheep massacre” that provides its reporters with their lamb chops? And aren’t widdle wee lammikins cuter than dolphins anyway?) and says that “Panettiere was lucky to escape the ordeal with her life, [but] all she could think about was the slaughtered dolphins.” Don’t know about Heroes, but that is a truly heroic piece of reporting at least….

Me, I did a lot for Mother Nature lately. For example, I have decided not a buy a new Airbus A380 for my private use, partially as I was worried about the carbon footprint. Also, I didn’t open up a lignite-fired power station, or cut down a couple of thousand acres of Amazon rain forest.

PS: for a laugh, check out James’ comments on the situation last year. The “Let the dolphin killing begin!” post linked above. Some people take far too much at face value….

They don’t go to China ’cause they’ll get beat downs, and face it, that’s what you’d expect from a country where a good portion is living in 3rd world standards. No one criticized Japan when they were poor and eating dolphin/whale, and the issue with Baiju is quite different when you take in regional circumstances.

Just because they aren’t taking on the rest of the world at the same time doesn’t mean they’re cowardly and shouldn’t protest…that’s like saying you shouldn’t donate to famished Somalian children if you don’t donate to Sierra Leone children. You start somewhere, and perhaps this Hayden girl only found out about the issue recently, so she shouldn’t give up just ’cause one species has gone extinct.

Regardless of their motives, whether it is for feel-good sake or whatnot, in the end I’d say it’s a positive thing for the planet, and considering the massive cruelty involved for the deaths of some of the dolphins, I support’em. So how ’bout you have a cup of stfu and also do something to give back mother nature.

If you ask me this is a subtle form of culture colonialism. I can understand why they feel the way they do, but in all honesty to try a change someone’s way of life in this manner is not only continuing a ‘blame Japan’ trend when it comes to these matters, its also pushing away the same people you are trying to ‘change’. It makes zero sense to follow this kind of line. Culturally people are different, do we all have to adopt each other’s ways of eating? I say no. Just because I think eating dogs and cats is a very sad thing to do, does not mean that I will tell peoples who see that as acceptable to stop doing it.

Are these Japanese fishermen breaking any laws? I don’t believe so. Are any existing laws pertaining to whaling and dolphin ‘fishing’ culturally biased? Yes. However, that is obviously beyond the scope of some dopey celeb and her pampered friends.

Just because you don’t like my argument doesn’t mean it is ‘shoddy logic’. Sometimes you have to read a little bit between the lines champ. The merits are diminished when they continue to knock down the same old strawman over and over and over, while there is a more dire situation occurring elsewhere.

Is it not fair to criticize America for being in Iraq when they are doing nothing in Sudan, Myanmar and elsewhere? Yeah, it is.

This is incredibly lame.

A young pretty actress protesting the hunting of cute animals is trite. But it doesn’t mean it’s without merits. Argue the merits, maybe you believe all animals that aren’t endangered are viable food. Some may agree, other may disagree, but that at least addresses the issue and is a logical counterargument rather than, “but you didn’t protest the killing of ‘insert endangered species here’.”

No one saying you ‘can only protest an issue if you protest ever other possible related issue’, rather the point is that protesting Japan’s dolphin hunt (of rather small numbers) while the Baiji is being wiped off the map is cowardly. I’d love to see these people do what they were doing in China.

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Trained killer whales would be cool. “Sic ‘em, Orca!”

maybe they should thins of an other killing method maybe by using electricity