Dolphin Slaughter in Taiji Begins September

[siokan]

potato is lovely.
Prohibit eating.

[dogsbody70]

I wasn't born yesterday--------------goodbye evanny.

[evanny]

Originally Posted by dogsbody70

I wasn't born yesterday--------------goodbye evanny.

you sure write like you were.
when presented with arguments you just type "goodbye". why cant you anwser like a grownup? you said you hate the experiments that are done on animals and that humans are basicly monsters for doing that...so how is it? you are going to deny medicine and stand by your belive? or keep on bitching how bad it is, but when you are going to get sick, then you will use medicine even it cost some hundred mice lives? kinda hipocritial, dont ya' think?

siokan - video FTW

[Columbine]

Originally Posted by dogsbody70

How long before the seas are completely empty?

I also wondered about the way Herons? are used to catch fish-- the way the bird is roped so it cannot swallow the fish?

It seems very skilful but how ethical?

Cormorants, not herons. In Japan, from what i've read, you need special permission to fish using a cormorant, and the few who do (it's not exactly a thriving industry) rear their own birds and do it to maintain tradition. The bird has a flexible elastic band put on it's neck for the duration of the fishing, completely harmless and no worse than the rings we put on birds legs for tracking, which stop it from eating ~big~ fish. It can still eat small ones, and the birds aren't starved regardless. They get fed after the fishing is done. China I cannot vouch for, but really, if you're making a living off of selling tourist photos of the bird, you can't present one that is scabby and skinny.

Originally Posted by cranks

There is no conceivable reason for smaller whales to accumulate more mercury. If anything, I'd guess it'd be the other way around.

Actually, I think there is, and quite logically. Dolphins and those categorized as "small whales" tend to be toothed; this means they eat fish rather than krill and shrimp etc. Fish retain much more mercury than krill, (in fact, shrimp have among the lowest levels of mercury absorption of all sea creatures), which is then in turn absorbed by the secondary and tertiary predators. Unlike large toothed whales, dolphins and small whales don't hunt at great depth, so they encounter more contamination in their prey. Dolphins particularly will hunt in shallows, greatly increasing the risk of contact with mercury from waste. Besides which, the main diet of large toothed whales tends to be squid, which generally have less mercury than fish anyway.

Basically it builds up so that a young dolphin could easily have a higher concentration of mercury than a young whale, although a very old whale will probably have more than an old dolphin, simply by having lived for much. much longer.

[david2010]

What should i do? MY GIRL won't forgive me


my girlfriend took naked pictures of herself with my fone but i didn't know
not until my course mate saw them on my fone and he made a pic slideshow

his-girlfriend.tk

and now it's all over school. She's thinking i did it myself, pls help me
this is the girl i intend to marry after my final exams 2months from now
and she doesn't even want to talk to me. What should i do?

Thanks
flowman

[david2010]

What should i do? MY GIRL won't forgive me


my girlfriend took naked pictures of herself with my fone but i didn't know
not until my course mate saw them on my fone and he made a pic slideshow

his-girlfriend.tk

and now it's all over school. She's thinking i did it myself, pls help me
this is the girl i intend to marry after my final exams 2months from now
and she doesn't even want to talk to me. What should i do?

Thanks
flowman

[dogsbody70]

Cormorants, not herons. In Japan, from what i've read, you need special permission to fish using a cormorant, and the few who do (it's not exactly a thriving industry) rear their own birds and do it to maintain tradition. The bird has a flexible elastic band put on it's neck for the duration of the fishing, completely harmless and no worse than the rings we put on birds legs for tracking, which stop it from eating ~big~ fish. It can still eat small ones, and the birds aren't starved regardless. They get fed after the fishing is done. China I cannot vouch for, but really, if you're making a living off of selling tourist photos of the bird, you can't present one that is scabby and skinny.

thanks very much for that. columbine-- When I have seen films of cormorant fishing it is obviously extremely skilful-- I believe that tourists like to watch this at night.

[dogsbody70]

Originally Posted by evanny

you sure write like you were.
when presented with arguments you just type "goodbye". why cant you anwser like a grownup? you said you hate the experiments that are done on animals and that humans are basicly monsters for doing that...so how is it? you are going to deny medicine and stand by your belive? or keep on bitching how bad it is, but when you are going to get sick, then you will use medicine even it cost some hundred mice lives? kinda hipocritial, dont ya' think?

siokan - video FTW

I would give you the reply you deserve-- so carry on-- being totally unpleasant.

[Qayin]

If you see there are problems in "how they kill dolphin", I absolutely agree with you. You can kill any animals you wanna consume as long as the number is reasonable (not kill so much that they gonna extinct.). But to consume them, if you could, you should do it in more humane way.

My opinion is to eat or use dolphins' organ, it's OK (but make sure they're left enough to reproduce and survive)

But please do it in a more humane way (not some cruel method like skinning they alive, boiling them alive or throw them to the fire alive. Oh, even prisoner execution is more humane than this)

[cranks]

Originally Posted by MissMisa

So basically, you think Greenpeace should pay off the 'farmers' to stop whaling? That's gonna go down well...

Still, they could have helped find more humane methods of killing, as that seems to be the main issue. How do you know they haven't already?

Let's say there was a small town where 200 people lived off by hunting pandas. They had been doing it for 400 years. And they had families to support.

If I were serious about stopping panda hunting, yes, subsidizing them while trying to shift them into some other industry, or maybe starting up a green tourism that incorporates panda watching or something is definitely an option.

If I were the top of a huge organization who's focus was to get more attention to their activities and rise more donations, no, I wouldn't think that would be a good idea. I should create a film that would illustrate panda hunting as cruel as possible and portray hunters as inhumane as possible.

"It doesn't matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true.... You are what the media define you to be."

It would help if all the hunters were foreign looking Asian men who did not speak English. I'd Incite them and have them yell at a little white girl while they were soaked red in pandas' life blood.

"Greenpeace needs to get their footage of a whale being shot, They do it every year. If you really look at it Greenpeace invests more money in advertising than they do in the actual campaign." This is again what Paul Watson himself said. If even he thinks this way, imagine how the Japanese people think of these activists.