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Originally Posted by GoNative
There is a difference between the breeding and killing of domesticated animals and hunting those in the wild. Few countries in the world still allow unrestricted killing of wild animal populations. To argue that killing a chicken or cow that has purely been bred for human use and consumption is just the same as killing whales or dolphins is just being disingenuous.
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I don't see why it is OK to breed dolphins and then beat the hell out of them.
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Originally Posted by GoNative
I too don't elevate whales or dolphins to some sort of mythical status and think it wrong to kill even one but the methods of killing dolphins in Taiji do appear to be somewhat cruel and unusual. I would also argue that the practice has little to do with cultural traditions and much more to do with financial greed.
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Good. So we are now talking about the method alone. The issue is easy. Or so it WAS.
It could have been super easy for Greenpeace or Sea Shepherd to compensate the fishermen or help them adopt a better, more humane method, if they wanted to. It's a tiny town with the population of 20,000. There are only several hundred fishermen. Only 1600 dolphins are killed per year.
For some reason, they decided not to do that, and instead created a hyper slanted Japanese whaler bashing film. I don't think these fishermen now listen to foreign activists even a bit. And I'll encounter yet more "fucking whale eating Jap" type of comments all over the web. Good job Hayde. Very good job. I wonder what the intension behind this whole thing is.
You may be a reasonable person GoNative, but unfortunately these activists aren't...
"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth, and a myth-generating machine."
This is what Paul Watson himself said, and to my eyes, he is truly living up to his word.