Taiji disappointed to hear that “The Cove” won an Oscar

You make a great point. Perhaps a revolution is in order.

Yeah, no way a country could possible have any traditions and -only- be a few hundred years old. You might as well say “they’re only a thousand years old, no way is that long enough to form any kind of traditions.”

How many hundreds of years or generations do you think it takes for traditions to form?

And if you think America has no traditions, you know nothing about the country.

To Noliving if your American I don’t what Polly Anna area you live in but me I live in Orange County California and lived in Los Angeles County. Now I guess you believe that everybody agrees then on all the subjects I listed then and that none of them are being argued about? Like nobody has killed anyone else recently trying to stop abortion or screwing with the availability? You mean that the rise in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Government Groups is just fluff news? Gun ownership restrictions are still being argued about in the courts, what I mean to say is it sounds like in your mind everything is black & white and none of those subjects are being argued about.
And yes I’ve meet a few TP’ers and they generally come across as overly emotional or angry people(irrational). Didn’t really care for them, reminded me too much of overly religious people(usually christians).

Constructive:
Dolphin meat maycontains high quantities of mercury, and may cause various ailments as brain or nerve damage.
It is constructive to disclose the relevant information to Japanese consumers, however small the population is, who eat Dolphin meat;though, Japanese government denies it’s dangerous unless consumed in huge quantities.

After all beef hormone controversy might turn out to be constructive and relevant to non-EU nations as well.

Actually they seem to suck all the attention away from the main mercury level issue that the commercial fishing industry tries to downplay a bit for example.

HIGH MERCURY
Eat three servings or less per month:
Bluefish
Grouper*
Mackerel (Spanish, Gulf)
Sea Bass (Chilean)*
Tuna (Canned Albacore)
Tuna (Yellowfin)*

HIGHEST MERCURY
Avoid eating:
Mackerel (King)
Marlin*
Orange Roughy*
Shark*
Swordfish*
Tilefish*
Tuna
(Bigeye, Ahi)*

http://www.nrdc.org/health/effects/mercury/guide.asp

After all where do you think the dolphins got it from? I’m just saying just using this as a argument and not trying to inform your “captive” audience(dolphin lovers) of similar danger is a bit uncool.

Camels aren’t endangered, ponta.

Neither are dogs and cats.

As for seals, as is the case with other animals, some people say it is not sustainable

“The Canadian Seal Hunt

Canada’s annual commercial seal hunt is the largest slaughter of marine mammals on the planet. 275,000 will be killed this spring.”

http://liberationbc.org/issues/seal_hunt

And protester Hurls Pie at Canadian Minister
A PETA member protests aquatic life research facility with a pie in the face.
01/26/2010(ABC)

I just wanted to bring attention to the fact that the similar arguments are used in case of the seals.

Roughly

1) The seals are in danger of extinction though scientists say otherwise.

2)The baby seals are cute.

∴　Don’t kill them.

I also wanted to bring attention to the reaction of the newscasters from ABC. They are not sympathetic to the activists.

Whether animal right activists are right is debatable, and I am inclined to think that their claims are valid to certain extent—-treat animals in painless ways, don’t kill animals unnecessarily etc— but the reactions to them are greatly different from animal to animal. That is where I suspect cultural bias or even racism comes in.

In case of the cove, if it is not about animal right, but it is just about mercury level dolphins contain, all they needed to do is publicize the accurate information and warn the consumers.

But that is not what they did. According to fishermen, they suddenly came in the village, and they shot the film they wanted,disregarding the facts and the life of fishermen, they just went away. Even their information about mercury level is not certain.
(Incidentally note also that there are Japanese people who object to hunting dolphins in Japan, why didn’t they work with them?)

I have an impression that this is another sensationalistic activism but the difference is that it is about another planet, so to speak, and the many viewers happen to have similar bias in common in this case.

Please read what I wrote again:

One of the Japanese words for “when” could also be translated as “if”.

Now, I should have been more clear by writing “grammatical construction” rather than “word”, but 「～たら」 can be translated as “if” or “when” depending on context.

Your apology is accepted.

And are you the opposite?

So we should all think like one, are we the Borg collective???

Why don’t you take a baseball bat and hit a female you like on the head, and drag her to your cave, you like her right????, what does it matter what AGE IT IS NOW.
Caves or no caves?
(B.C. or A.D.)

He is a normal and right minded individual who says what he believes in, in FREE countries you can say WHAT you WANT, AS THAT IS YOUR RIGHT.
No stigma no dogma, that is what freedom of speech is all about.

That’s a little too idealistic. If they were to understand the culture in a degree, Taiji would have not refuse their cameras. But they were merely gathering convenient materials for years only to agitate people about the hunt. They didn’t even have a translator with them when they came first. Sea Shepherd is showing the phone number of Taiji’s public office on their web page. As a result, Taiji has received crazy amount of calls and e-mails from protesters. Who in the office would like to double the noisy protest, by allowing them to take pictures and movies of the hunt? The cove is in a public park. They should have make some application in a proper manner, if they wanted to bring cameras in there. This is nothing special. You would be required to do the same things if you go take photos of Yellowstone National Park. Do any status of America allow TV crew to enter the national park that easily, even if they broke rules in the past?

Sadly, these people are going to gather those materials whether the fisherman like it or not – hence this whole controversy about The Cove. Just like I said in my first comment, the only way to nip this thing in the bud is to be proactive about it.

For example, allowing free access to the hunt (in terms of photography), and even perhaps hiring an English speaking PR rep to take calls from activists. They don’t even have to respond to criticisms; they can just say something like, “Thank you for your input. We take your opinion very seriously.” etc.

I agree that it’s idealistic to believe that activists will be anything other than abusive, but a large scale campaign to thwart their momentum would go a long way to solving this problem.

Actually, pigs are smarter than dogs. They can learn more, faster, retain what they learn longer and can even, under certain circumstances, apply what they have learned in one situation to a separate situation to achieve a desired result. This has been demonstrated numerous times in testing. The thing is, most people don’t bother training pigs. They prefer to just eat them.

Implying that mercury poisoning is “the will of nature” avenging itself against harmful japanese whalers

Thank you for understanding.

The thing is IMO there are two kinds of organized farming, the American one ( which is not at all healthy to say the least), and there is a normal one, where the livestock or fish is bred in more humane conditions, in almost natural envirment, not a plant, and replenished.

If you are to try and do the same to dolphins or whales; hypothetically speaking, though I ‘d again be against it; you’d replenish the quantity bred to meet the demand.

The other way around you are only destroying a wild natural resource of equilibrium in the neighboring and intl. waters, who’s rampant extinction can lead to no good, in the long run for anyone, aside from the fat that killing a scientifically proven intelligent beings are being mass slaughtered.

What someone eats should not be criticized at all, unless it is a socially unacceptable ( yes customs and cultural differences, but still); however one cannot justify his menu with killing of beings such as the whales and dolphins, as not many countries globally would even allow the meats of the kind to be served in public restaurants.

That said, people will always find a way to bend the regulations, most of the time at their own peril, but such is the way of man, learning upon cardinal mistakes.