If you ask me straight out I will say no.
Whales are largely an endangered species that should be completely banned from being hunted. Numbers barely exceed one hundred thousand in any one species, they breed slowly and large scale modern harvast of whales would make them all extinct.
Also whales are possibly sentient creatures like humans, I read a story once where a group of two whales were swimming along, when a boat carelessy hit the female whale killing her instantly. In retaliation the male whale sank the boat. Serves them right but anyway, the male whale obvious showed that whales do seek revenge, an often thought do be human emotion.
Anyway Japan are being bastards and are in open defiance of the IWC's ruling on the matters.
They even fucking whale in Antarctica. I don't know what any one else thinks but to me that shouldn't be bloody happening.
America should do something about Japan's action in this manner, Japan are a highly advanced nation with many thriving industries. Why do they need to whale? It's not something you will find to be extremely culturely important to them, even if they have been whaling for a long time.
Anyway I like a lot of what Japan makes, anime for example but this just goes a bit far for my tastes.
Another thing most whale meat is unacceptable for human consumption due to a large amount of pesticides and mercury in their bodies.
One of Japan's arguments for why they should be allowed to whale was that Australia kills and eats kangaroos.
One problem with that argument, Kangaroo's number in the many millions, and are often considered pests around cities. And the large scale production of kangaroo meat is non existant in most states of Australia, except for possibly the Northern Territory, where food is scarce any way. Now This is an obvious flaw with their argument, also what Japan chooses to hunt are classed as endangered species and are supposed to be protected from hunting.
Another of Japan's arguments was that whales have eaten all their fish, utter bullshit, most whale don't even eat fish and Sperm Whales eat fish far below the line that most fishing ships fish. The main reason for the drop in fish is their own bloody actions, over fishing in their waters tends to kill of fish populations.
Anyway that's been my beaf for several days since I first heard about this utterly stupid debate. If I had a destroyer of some type, I would hunt down and destroy whaling ships...probably the reason why I don't have one...other then the fact that I'm also seventeen years old, anyway, you probably get my general message.
If you want to comment do so, but only about whaling for this blog at least.
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Well if they didn't whale then how could they make Whale Ice Cream?
The Japanese Government has no honour.
They continue to "buy off" small cash-strapped nations with incompetent administrations.
Like the World War 2 atrocities the Japanese Government will ignore the truth to further its own devious strategies.
Japan was one of my favourite countries for a while this is why I've been so annoyed over this matter, and that whales are my favourite animals in the world.
I agree the actions that Japan are taking are completely without honour, they have always been in contempt of the IWC and even if they lose they intend to quit it.
There should be something seriously done about these actions, if they are allowed to up their whaling for "scientific purposes" they could cause the complete genocide of an entire type of mammal.
Okay, first I want to say that I love whales, and I think that there's a good chance that they are more intelligent than most people give them credit for.
BUT...as to whether they are possibly sentient. There is no possibleness about it. Whales are sentient. So are dogs, and even fish. Sentient just means being capable of feeling, which all animals are. Unless you want to include like coral and shit, but I don't see how they are really animals anyway, except for their cell structure or whatever.
Secondly, your story about the male whale destroying that fishing boat doesn't show that whales seek revenge. It might suggest that, but there are many other possible reasons, such as the more base emotion of attacking something that appears to be a threat. I'm not saying that whales aren't capable of feeling complex emotions, just that this isn't the best example of it.
As for all the other stuff, yes I agree. Whaling is bad.
yeah I guess your right, anyway Japan didn't get rid of the ban HOORAY.
However that still doesn't stop them from their illegal whaling which the world knows very little about if anything.
Well if the world knows very little about Japan's illegal whaling, how did you find out?
Are you privvy to more information than the average person?
He isn't privvy to more than the average person, the difference is that he actually cares.
Oh, THAT'S what that is.
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