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Originally Posted by Columbine
Yeah, If change is going to happen, it needs to come internally. I must say, I support animal welfare dearly, but I do think Greenpeace and PETA often cause more uproar than actual good.
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I can't agree more.
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Originally Posted by Columbine
Ah, so in fact, it has been a misnomer all along.
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It's yes and no. ゴンドウ(Pilot whale) is whale in English, but often called dolphin(イルカ) in Japanese. The difference between dolphin and whale is biologically non existent. We just call smaller toothed whales dolphins. If you scrutinize my previous link, you'll see what's actually going on.
http://kokushi.job.affrc.go.jp/H20/H20_45.html
The hunting method that was shown in The Cove is called 追込 and done exclusively in Taichi today. As I said, Taichi is a small town and they only hunt a bit more than 1000 a year. In 2007, they got 300 ハンドウイルカ (bottle nose dolphin, THE dolphin) and sold 77 to aquariums. I believe 223 were slaughtered and sold as meat. They probably stopped this because of the protest. I'm not sure what happened to スジイルカ (striped dolphin) this year. 384 were killed in 2007.
The majority of "Dolphin hunting" is done in 岩手 where almost 10,000 "イルカ" are hunted annually. The method they use (突棒) is basically a scaled down whaling, which uses harpoons. The species hunted there are イシイルカ and リクゼンイルカ which are called porpoise in English (
Dall's porpoise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). I don't think this is affected by the protest in any way.
Even if you limit it to ハンドウイルカ, several hundred had been killed every year prier to 2007, and probably sold as meat. And the activists seem to have stopped this. But that's by employing this much racism.
dolphin fucking "japs" - Google Search
Several hundred dead dolphins cost only $100,000 or so… A tiny fraction of the budget of the activists. I don't think inciting this much hatred and racism is justified when there are so many much easier alternatives. It's scary that some people love dolphins and whales more than fellow humankind.
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Originally Posted by Columbine
I wouldn't be mad, rabbit is delicious!
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Nah, I'll pass that one. Rabbits are cute :P