"We like to eat whale meat"

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000101&sid=atOBZqyZCvJg&refer=japan

Fuck the Japanese government. They have been trying to reverse the International Ban on Whaling since it's inception. Looks like they may succeed this year. Fucking cannibals.

They know perfectly well how closely the whale brain resembles our own. They also know that it is more complexly developed than ours and that they feel pain.

Then there would be no more whales to eat.

They're gone just the same.

Genocide has a definition. It is eliminating a group completely or at least trying to. Pedantic point but I am a small man.

but I get your drift.

resemblance to us, came to earth and we ruthlessly slaughtered them, then what would be a proper term be for that?

Cannibalism refers to a lifeform that consumes its own kind. But I don't want to dilute your message, more power to you. :)

mean that whales are so close to use genetically that it was "cannibalism" in a more general sense.

My wife and I were talking about this yesterday. I cant believe that in 2006 we still have a whale killing industry. It really saddens the heart. Its also sad that the polar bears HAVE turned to cannibalism to survive.

I guess one could call then "neurological cousins".
(more so in the case of dolphins).

"Intelligent food for intelligent people".
I'm sorry to say that this does not apply to all my countrymen. Some of them are still blinded by their political bias and complete lack of knowledge or grasp for reality.

But whalemeat is still pretty good though. Healthy, nutrisious, and we help keep the ecologiacal balance in the sea. Here's the deal. Both men and whales eat fish. Whaling is fobidden because of exhausting the numbers of whales. More fish will come. No more whaling: Our natural competitor will eat a lot more fish. Both whales and men will take a lot more fish than will be born. result: no more fish in the sea for either whales or men. How to cope with this problem? How to get the Natives on the North West Coast of the American continent to stop from doing what they have done for 1000s of years? Do anyone have a legal or even a moral right to try to prohibit them from hunting whales? I won't put myself into that position. I hope others here on the forum will agree with me.

Grand Elf Mayhem

Unfortunately, this country is about excess in all things.

I'm betting you get flamed for your sense of balance, just before the flamer goes out for a hamburger... without thought to the pretty brown eyes of a cow... or all the forests that are destroyed for cow pastures... or all the extra methane that puts in our atmosphere... and the lack of greenery, now cut down for the pastures, to balance the methane.

I'd be interested to hear more about Norwegian whaling, from a balanced perspective. Interestingly enough, this is a subject I've been discussing at great length recently with some ecologically minded Norwegians.

Welcome to DU, Far_Rider.

Most species live a long time, are slow to mature and reproduce (20 years or more in some species); it is extremely easy to overfish them. Overturning the whaling ban would be ecological diaster because the Japanese at least are notorious for overfishing EVERYTHING. They are detroying ecosystems in other countries just to feed their seafood habit. Whaling is completely unecessary and disgusting.

Welcome to DU!! :toast: