After 20 Years, Whale Meat Returns to Japanese School Lunch

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Hi Moya,

Hi Sara,

 

 

You're absolutely correct. Actually I should have

mentioned a lot more countries than just Japan. It's

just that the country of Japan brazenly stands out in

it's defiance of treating intelligent animals like

Dolphins and Whales with the wonder they deserve.

Japan, Norway, Canada, all seem to derive some kind of

perverted pleasure in giving the rest of the world the

finger when it comes to heinously slaughtering

wondrous sea mammals like Seals, Dolphins, Whales,

etc.

 

Furthermore, it's amazing enough to see humanity as a

whole decide to protect any species. So when the

majority of the world does show some compassion for a

targeted species, it becomes particularly depressing

to see a hand full of countries take it upon

themselves to openly continue barbaric cruelties

against these species. In the case of Japan-Japan has

taken the promotion of killing whales to a whole new

level. Japan is openly paying off small island nations

in the south pacific in hopes of getting the countries

to vote along with them in the I.W.C. If Japan is

successful at buying enough of their votes, they will

absolutely turn over most of the restrictions on

whaling world wide.

 

There is just no getting away from the fact that Japan

is enthusiastically trying to commit an outrages act

against nature. This is why I've pointed them out more

so than the other Asian nations when it comes to

murdering sea mammals. As I mentioned though, Canada,

and Norway, are right behind them in heinous

atrocities against sea mammals. These countries have

been added to my boycott list as well. I have no more

intention of supporting these countries financially

than I do of supporting our own heinous meat and dairy

industries here in the U.S. corporate empire.

 

In conclusion, we have to keep in mind that since

we're now living under this freakish world of

corporate domination, where nations alone no longer

count for anything. Where sovereignty has gone down

the drain and into the gutter, and as a result we can

no longer rely on one nation or another to put any

pressure on nations that are openly defying human or

animal rights, we have now pathetically reduced

ourselves to having boycotting as our only weapon.

Even worse is that boycotting in itself is a weak

weapon, because most humans don't have the conscience

to do it! How truly-truly sad we've become as a

species. I would say that we humans for the most part

are all just one step ahead of a butterfly net. But

lets be honest, that conclusion would only serve to

let us off the hook. We're way to dark of a species

to be excused so playfully. We can only hope that in

the future we can regain some sanity in our species. I

have to admit there's little hope in it ever coming

into fruition though....It still boggles my mind that

only three percent of us in the U.S. (not that there

really is a U.S. anymore) are vegetarian in the year

2005. This is a shamefully low number. Shameful

indeed.

 

Rick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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>we have now pathetically reduced

>ourselves to having boycotting as our only weapon.

>Even worse is that boycotting in itself is a weak

>weapon, because most humans don't have the conscience

>to do it!

 

Hi Rick and friends,

 

I do not agree that boycotting is such a pathetic approach. In fact, human

beings are economic animals, always have been, and unless there's a dramatic

change in our neurological configuration, always will be. Our challenge is to

use our economic nature -- our innate greed if you will -- as a tool to bring

positive change, justice, and progress to hearts and minds. All else is nothing

but stopgaps and band-aids.

 

As a libertarian, I find it ironic that progressives are so quick to clamour to

expand the government and extend its police and military power and hike up taxes

to enforce such worthy causes as protection of whales, etc and then seem

surprised or taken aback when less benevolent forces inevitably gain power (as

we see nowadays) and use the very structures of government coercion and taxation

to cause harm. (e.g. in conducting immoral wars, giving tax breaks to polluters,

funding bad religion, etc)

 

If you are a person of conscience whether in terms of animal issues, civil

liberties, church-state separation, stopping the coarsening of the culture, or

any other worthy cause the best thing you can do is get rich! Or at least get

to the point where you have more financial resources at your disposal. There

are many ways to do this, such as becoming an inventor or entrepreneur,

investing or trading in various financial instruments, or just spending less

money on buying stuff. One moneyed person who is of a mind to use the power

that money confers to exert a positive influence is more effective than 100

people chanting and picketing. Become that person!

 

If we wish to change the world, we cannot naively expect that politicians and

bureaucrats will do the right thing. Rather than decrying boycotts as weak and

pathetic, we should rather view them as a valuable tool for people of conscience

to circumvent the dilly-dallying and wheeling-dealing of politicans and

bureaucrats and send a clear and unambiguous price-signal directly to the

culprits.

 

Many Japanese like their whale meat, just like lots of meat eaters here love

their veal. There are no doubt organizations in Japan that try to promote

compassion for whales and the like. If enough of us accumulate enough money we

can send the money to those groups so they can run TV and print ads, print and

distribute pamphlets, hold rallies, and otherwise exert a positive influence

from within their society.

 

I might also draw your attention to www.new-harvest.org - once their research

and ingenuity comes to fruition, it will be much easier to protect the whales

(and others) since people will be able to enjoy true whale meat without actually

harming an actual whale. New Harvest deserves your support!

 

-DG