dhajjieboy
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OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 29, 2016, 15:30
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160325-Japan-whaling-minke-whales-Antarctica/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/mar/25/japan-admits-to-killing-more-than-300-whales-in-southern-ocean
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/world/japan-minke-whale-333-irpt/
http://www.ifaw.org/united-states/our-work/whales/which-countries-are-still-whaling
http://time.com/4370478/norway-whaling-report/#.
Thats the 2016 report.
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moss
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Re: OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 30, 2016, 07:31
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Terrible, but there is an organisation doing something about it....
http://www.seashepherdglobal.org/news-and-commentary/news/sea-shepherd-global-announces-its-11th-antarctic-whale-defense-campaign-operation-nemesis.html
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dhajjieboy
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Re: OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 30, 2016, 13:11
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Yes indeed.....
Some time ago, a grotesque inhuman monster that used to contribute here posted these noteworthy society links too:
http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/u_know/topic/55431/threaded/692143
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Sin Agog
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Re: OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 30, 2016, 16:58
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Continuing the debate going on in that thread (which I sort of glossed over), the complete absence of non-human life in China and Japan, at least outside of the kitchen, is haunting. You notice it the moment you step off the plane/boat/hoverboard. Having several different generations of family from China, I think we perhaps don't realise how much the effects of several different famines (especially the one Mao helped stoke by exporting food right when it was needed most, wiping out 45 million people in one fell swoop) over the last century continue to affect their mind-set. I do hope one of the side-effects of China opening up to the West, besides getting hooked on a whole new batch of crap with which to fritter their lives away like us, is that they may start to see life with less ravenous eyes. I reckon I can already start to see it happen with the younger generations. Perhaps that goes for Japan, too, which is arguably even more extreme in transforming all non-human life into utensils of some sort, despite having less of an excuse than China. When I went there I got the impression that the entirety of the natural world was confined to a bonsai tree in someone's closet.
Of course, by the time people see the error of their ways many cetaceans' only hope will be a Star Trek IV scenario happening in real life.
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dhajjieboy
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Re: OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 31, 2016, 16:35
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Brexit/Jeremy Corbin and Donald Trump are all much more important topics to endlessly harp on about.
U-Know ?
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Sin Agog
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Edited Aug 31, 2016, 17:56
Re: OooH..! Yew mutta Fyukin' Whares !!
Aug 31, 2016, 17:28
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Well, u-know, they're not all entirely unrelated. The E.U. has a long history of attempting to stymie commercial encroachment into the environment, and so does Corbyn. Sometimes it is as simple as seeing which is the side of the angels on certain causes, then sticking with them through all inclement weather. I get that you're doing your old "HH has failed me" shtick*, but sometimes something's so wrong that there's no room for argument or debate. Everone here thinks it's horrible, whether one or two people say so, or fifty. The thing is, I suspect even if we came up with definitive, incontrovertible proof that cetaceans and other animals are capable of complex emotions and extreme suffering, we'd still keep them ensnared in the industrial machine, because we're humans and to us everything, including other humans, is a tool, and tools must be put to use.
*although that said I sometimes think the difference between being a follower of celebrities and a follower of politics is at least with the former you get to see a bit of skin on occasion. Far too much political discourse is centred on this and that thing the major players have worn, or said, or done, and the issues tend to get pushed out of the picture. It drags life-changing events down to the level of football debate, or scatting about the latest Kanye soundbite; conversation-fodder with the sting taken out of its tail.
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