- 23 Sep 2005
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Well there you go, whale meat will be ending up in a local petshop near you, a company is selling meat on the web as "healthy and safe natural" dog food. Natural? Did you ever see a wild dog reletave swim out to sea and kill a whale? Healthy? I doubt the huge quantity of blubber/fat will be healthy for dogs.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Anger over whale pet food claims
And the vast bulk of whales cought and killed by the Japanese aern't even killed in a humane manner a report says "Japan reported almost 60% were not killed outright";
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Whaling 'too cruel to continue'
"We have heard many arguments from Japan over the years about why whaling is necessary to them but they have never stated that they needed to kill whales to feed their dogs."
"It says the average estimated time to death is more than two minutes, and that some whales take over an hour to die."
Considering their internal organs are exploded from the inside via modern harpoon technology, taking over an hour to die is horrendous and must cause extreme suffering for the animal to die, whales are also amoungst some of the most intelligent and rare animals on the planet.
" It says criteria for assessing the time it takes a whale to die are unreliable, with some animals possibly surviving long after they are judged to be dead."
"Dr Lillie wrote: "If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher's truck through the streets of London while it pours blood into the gutter, we shall have an idea of the method of killing.
"The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it."
At least Norway is making great efforts to kill whales more humanely while japan is making no effort at all and has one of the highest slow death rates for whales it kills in the World.
There is a glut of whale meat being produced in Japan, the goverment is killing far more whales than what there is actually demand for, many japanese themselves are against whaling or simply do not like the meat- even for those that do like eating whale meat, there's far more whales being killed than what they can actually eat.
If everyone if japan decided to eat whale meat tomorrow, the the majority of whale species would go extinct.
Im sorry(well not really), but i strongly disagree with eating whale meat, we have no real reason to eat these magnificent creatures apart from to feed our completely self-scented/selfish greedy desires.
I see no real justafiable reason/s for japan to kill whales at all.
I am strongly against whaling not only in japan, but in general. full stop.
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Anger over whale pet food claims
And the vast bulk of whales cought and killed by the Japanese aern't even killed in a humane manner a report says "Japan reported almost 60% were not killed outright";
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Whaling 'too cruel to continue'
"We have heard many arguments from Japan over the years about why whaling is necessary to them but they have never stated that they needed to kill whales to feed their dogs."
"It says the average estimated time to death is more than two minutes, and that some whales take over an hour to die."
Considering their internal organs are exploded from the inside via modern harpoon technology, taking over an hour to die is horrendous and must cause extreme suffering for the animal to die, whales are also amoungst some of the most intelligent and rare animals on the planet.
" It says criteria for assessing the time it takes a whale to die are unreliable, with some animals possibly surviving long after they are judged to be dead."
"Dr Lillie wrote: "If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck in its stomach and being made to pull a butcher's truck through the streets of London while it pours blood into the gutter, we shall have an idea of the method of killing.
"The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it."
At least Norway is making great efforts to kill whales more humanely while japan is making no effort at all and has one of the highest slow death rates for whales it kills in the World.
There is a glut of whale meat being produced in Japan, the goverment is killing far more whales than what there is actually demand for, many japanese themselves are against whaling or simply do not like the meat- even for those that do like eating whale meat, there's far more whales being killed than what they can actually eat.
If everyone if japan decided to eat whale meat tomorrow, the the majority of whale species would go extinct.
Im sorry(well not really), but i strongly disagree with eating whale meat, we have no real reason to eat these magnificent creatures apart from to feed our completely self-scented/selfish greedy desires.
I see no real justafiable reason/s for japan to kill whales at all.
I am strongly against whaling not only in japan, but in general. full stop.