Japanese sinks stealth boat in whale wars!

Quickie said:

Are the Japanese dog lovers? Perhaps telling them that whales are as intelligent as or even more intelligent than dogs would help them break the habit of eating whale meats.

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Unfortunately one cant keep a whale in the bathtub or swimming pool


Re Sharkfin Soup: I Like sharkfin soup, but its really got me stumped as to why they dont use the rest of the shark meat. Over here shark meat is known as lemon fish and i dont have a problem with consuming it.
It also makes good fishballs which seems to be a popular item on the refrigerator shelves of those Chinese grocery stores

bladerunner said:

Unfortunately one cant keep a whale in the bathtub or swimming pool


Re Sharkfin Soup: I Like sharkfin soup, but its really got me stumped as to why they dont use the rest of the shark meat. Over here shark meat is known as lemon fish and i dont have a problem with consuming it.
It also makes good fishballs which seems to be a popular item on the refrigerator shelves of those Chinese grocery stores

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Poachers are lazy bastards, and don't want to wast the fuel to haul sharks back to port; when they can pack the hold full of fins that sell at a premium and don't need to be refrigerated.

Quickie said:

Sorry, someone seems to suggest that whales are a kind of fish.

Are the Japanese dog lovers? Perhaps telling them that whales are as intelligent as or even more intelligent than dogs would help them break the habit of eating whale meats.

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Do you know that PIG is more intelligent than a DOG or Cat ? ... would you stop eating pork ? ... your logic is simply wrong .. think about octopus as well

antiterror13 said:

Do you know that PIG is more intelligent than a DOG or Cat ? ... would you stop eating pork ? ... your logic is simply wrong .. think about octopus as well

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Im not too sure whether its about the intelligence of the animal that makes it appealing to humans, but for some reason Westerners have developed an empathy for whales which is certainly beyond my comprehension.Personally I reckon it would be pretty cool to have a cheetah as a pet.(no bum would touch my car if I had a cheetah in the backseat. or a falcon I could go falconing or whatever they call it as a sport.

Overhere alot of Asians seem to go for dogs as pets, Ive personally acquainted with a lot of mailand chinese who spend not an inconsiderable amount of money on pedigree dogs, only to drop them off at the pound when they head back to China after a years stay here.


Edit. By the way I have not heard one sound reason for why its wrong to eat whale especially when there is enough numbers in certain speicies to sustain limited catching.

cmb=1968 said:

Poachers are lazy bastards, and don't want to wast the fuel to haul sharks back to port; when they can pack the hold full of fins that sell at a premium and don't need to be refrigerated.

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Id like to see them do that to a great white

I am curious with the title of this thread ".... stealth boat ...", as far as I search about the boat, it is a speed boat and never intend to anything stealthy.

SteelBird said:

I am curious with the title of this thread ".... stealth boat ...", as far as I search about the boat, it is a speed boat and never intend to anything stealthy.

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You are quite right. If I remember correctly the original owner who built it to go around the world in a record time developed financal problems and sold it to the anti whaling crowd/Sea Sherpherd crowd who claim to have made some additions and given it a coat of radar reflective paint to fox the Japanese, hence the claim to be stealthy, but it was never designed as such.

bladerunner said:

Edit. By the way I have not heard one sound reason for why its wrong to eat whale especially when there is enough numbers in certain speicies to sustain limited catching.

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well, finback whales is an endangered species, and japanese do hunt them (although with a limit per year).

T-U-P said:

well, finback whales is an endangered species, and japanese do hunt them (although with a limit per year).

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Arent the bulk of the catch Minke and theres enough of those to allow a limited catch

antiterror13 said:

Do you know that PIG is more intelligent than a DOG or Cat ? ... would you stop eating pork ? ... your logic is simply wrong .. think about octopus as well

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I'm not sure a pig is more intelligent than a dog, but what I meant was you basically don't see people in most countries farming animals like dogs, cats, monkeys, dolphins, gorilla and orang utan for their meat. (I know there are exceptions.) The reason is of course quite obvious. I'm personally not against eating meat and tend to believe farm animals are killed in a more humane way than harpooning a whale.