Japanese TV News Report on Whaling

Japan has been hunting whales since the millenium. The whaling tradition is dying out therefore western countries want to implement their stance on whaling.

I don’t think the environmental reasons are good for anti whaling because eating beef and pork is worse for the environment compared with eating whale meat.

If it was for animal welfare reasons or humane killing methods then whaling should be compared with every single wild hunt on the planet including the kangaroo cull by Australia.

“is about as deep as its practise of eating curry”

Uhhm. actually not. But does that mean that non Indians should stòp eating curry? Whats next? Australians should go back to UK? And Cleveland Indians should get a brand new baseball team name.

Japan has been hunting whales from even before Buddhism arrived in Japan. Before when Aussies were sitting in various prison cells in around UK. Aussies hunted whales due to whale oil. Japanese have been hunting because of food together with Norwegians, Icelandics, Inuits in Alaska, Greenlanders, Indonesians, Maoris and the various cultures and people of the Caribbean among others.

Aussies are racist because they are telling others what to eat and what not to eat. They are trying to shove down their imperialistic stance down people’s throats because they look at whales as some urban totem animal. This is culture imperialism. Racism. It should be up to Japan to decide what they want to eat and what not to eat. The biggest concideration one should take is numbers. If the hunt is sustainable it should be OK to hunt whales. The argument should be how many whales and not if whaling should be OK or not.

Kangaroos are being killed because there are too many because Australia wants to make more grace land for cows and keep on urbanising more land. The natural habitat gets smaller on the expense of sheep, cows and humans. As if that isn’t enough Australia has already in the short existance managed to wipe out a number of kangaroo spiecies.

3 million kangaroos are getting slaughtered each year. And the guidelines to kill a kangaroo is no where as strict as Japan’s IWC Sceintific hunt where every whale kill is put into a data base. Unlike what you believe most whales die fairly quickly due to modern technology and they are well documented. That is much more than what you can say about the kangaroo cull.

If Aussies don’t want to eat whales. Fine. They don’t have to but don’t shove your ethnocentric attitude down on Japan.

There is less energy used in whaling than cattle farming. Therefore whale meat is an eco friendly form of producing food for human consumption. Are Scandinavian experts? Are you the expert? Scandinavian countries are known to be the msot environmental friendly countries on this planet according to this report.

http://www.aboutmyplanet.com/environment/the-top-7-environmentally-friendly-countries/

The whole point is there is less fuel needed than producing beef not to mention all the beef which is being exported from countries like Australia to Japan. ALot of fuel is needed.

Methane is still one of the greatest contributor to global warming. Whales dont produce methane.

I said Scandinavians have always argued about whaling being environemntal friendly then you said are Scandinavians experts? Then I asked are you the expert? Then provided a link stating that the Scandinavian countries are known to be the most environmental friendly countries on this planet and they support whaling. The Japanese hunt is sustainable thats the whole point. Scandinavian hunt is sustainable thats the whole point.

Please study more about whaling. A good place to start is IWC. International Whaling Committee.

Allright. You got me on that minor grammatic error. Compared with how much methane cows produce whales dont produce alot of methane hardly anything and thats because there are as you state hardly any left. Where as there are too many cows in this world which is having much more severe consequences than whaling. There are 80 different whale spiecies and the whales Japan wants to hunt are not endangered. Some are still in the endangered zone but not critically endangered. A 100kg of whale meat is more ecological friendly than 100kg of cow meat because producing whale meat is more enery efficient than producing cow meat and cows produce methane. You dont need to cut trees and turn into agricultural land in whaling either.

Co2. Methane are contributors to global warming.

Interesting thing you say about rice paddies but I dont understand your point. Whales should be compared with other meat and not rice. So we humans get most of our food from wet lands. Interesting. So Japan should stop whaling?

Maybe you can campaign with the neo nazi hippies to make Japanese only stick to rice?

I did not say you were a nazi or a hippie but a neo nazi hippie. When you throw abuse to to others in the manner that you do in I think you sound like a neo nazi hippie. You think I am a blubber eater., Fine. I think you are a neo nazi hippie.

People who live in whaling countries do not eat whales every single day of the year. Many of the people living in whaling countries dont eat whales. So whats your point? Why is it worse to eat whales than beef, chicken or pork? It isnt. Just because some people think whales are some sacred Jesus mythical figure does not give them right to shove their religion down peoples throats like a neo nazi hippie.