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Originally Posted by yuujirou
looool~~~~~
chinese wiped out pandas~ tigers~ and who knows what else~~~
americans wiped out native americans~nearly... we now farm them in casinos >.>'''
caucasians wiped out the cocoo and the tazmanian devil~~~
yadda yadaa yadaaa >.>''
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Well, technically the panda isn't extinct yet, and I think you mean the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger. It's not all gloom though; there are roughly 10 species of british bird that have been bought back from the brink and are recovering well, and several species of frog whose populations are being stabilized due to conservation efforts following a fungal plague.
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Originally Posted by jeniferdesauza
the united states use to eat whale meat. its part of japanese culture. Japan as a whole is healthier than people in the united states. Whaling might be wrong but think of it this way in terms of food. We in the US eat Cows but to people of India (hindus) this is outrageous because it is their god.
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The difference being that the Japanese don't ~farm~ whales. They take them from the wild. Plus, the US moved off from whale meat when they found more sustainable alternatives such as cattle. I know some places still allow it for historical and traditional reasons and I suspect if Japan as a nation wanted to follow the same path that would be much more acceptable to the wider global community, but the fact remains that in the past they categorically did not use the large scale steel hulled whaling vessels that they use today, nor the methods of slaughter. Nor on such a massive scale.
There's also ownership issues. Whales in Australian waters are largely protected, but whales wander, and can be killed by japanese whalers in open sea. Now if an indian farmers' sacred cow wandered over a land border into china, say, and was killed and eaten by a chinese man, there would be uproar and the indian farmer would have a right to compensation. But the whaling companies only very reluctantly agree to lay off whales that are known to breed and reside in certain waters.
In other words, don't try and compare whaling to farming. It's a whole different ball game.