I happen to like chickens, and would rather not eat or see them be eaten.
1) Chicken are cuter than whales.
2) Chicken are farmed, and the chickens you eat have not even seen daylight, the sea or breathed in fresh air
3) By killing one whale you can make enough whale burgers to feed a village for a month
4) To feed the same village with chicken nuggets, you have to kill millions of chickens
5) Before the whale got killed it had a wonderful life in the wild oceans
6) The whale gets killed by a harpoon with exploding warhead and dont suffer at all, but the chickens are killed in cruel ways
Any nation that depends on seafood to feed its people year round is obviously failing hard. If the Japanese are so smart, why don't they set up a solid agricultural system and feed its people real meat raised on farms instead?
They spend millions of dollars each year in dead end tech products. They should work on making themselves agriculturally independent. Just invest in some bulldozers and dynamite, flatten some mountains, and dredge up some soil to create more farm area, and in 10 years everyone in Japan would be able to afford to eat domestically produced hamburgers every day. If a mountainous country like Argentina can do it, a high tech country like Japan can too.
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Anonymous2010-03-02 12:14
>>10
But then their population will grow to fit the resources and they will have to start eating whales again. Best just to nuke their population down again.
>>10
There's agriculture in Japan, though it doesn't really hold that much of an impact on the country. Their priorities seem to be in technology and the seafood industry. Then again, they practically all live in one huge island.
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Anonymous2010-03-02 22:31
>>12
Strategic nuclear weapons and hunter-killer submarines are the apex of naval warfare, last I heard Japan was not excelling in either department.
Interesting factoid: the Japanese actually have a peace clause in their constitution. Article IX of the Japanese constitution states:
"Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use use of force as a means of settling international disputes.
In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained. the right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized."
Another interesting factoid: America, after the war, helped them write their new democratic constitution. We did the same for Germany except minus the peace clause.
I raise/grow my own food, I mostly only eat my own animals, and plants I grow. If you live in a area, and are not a pussy and can kill animals, were you can do this I highly recommend it.
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Anonymous2010-03-14 1:56
>>17
Always cook meat properly, so every part of the meat has been above boiling point for a minute, don't do any of that eating the liver or drinking blood shit hunters seem to do.
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Anonymous2010-03-14 6:53
>>1
you got some nice points there anon, and i agree with you, but the problem is: whales dont grow on trees, there are just not enough of them, if you kill them at this point there will be no more one day.
>>23
I wouldn't say I'm a fan, but I watch it occasionally. Some episodes I really like, most are... just not worth watching, I guess. That was one I liked.