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[–]Tanaka-san 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should publicise this in Japan as well. Most Japanese doesn't even know about this practice.

[–]nakile 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Your not going to stop them. Putting the traditional and cultural aspects aside, Japan has a huge fishing economy and dolphins and whales eat a lot of fish. People will also pay a lot to eat these creatures in Japan, too. So there's two big economic incentives to do this.

Imagine we had a few large predators in the world that ate cows, pigs, and chickens. In order to stop this, we start to kill them. They're pretty tasty so we sell them for food. We've also eaten them for a long time here in the US so it's pretty acceptable, too. Now image that Japanese activist start coming over here and protesting against this and tell us to stop for the same reasons we do to the Japanese with whaling. I have a feeling we (the US as a whole) probably wouldn't listen to them.

Although whales are different from the mystery creatures. We grow animals in somewhat closed, controlled environments and having something just come along and eat a bunch of them in a enclosed space would be a huge problem. Fish are just out there for grabs from anybody, including whales and dolphins, so in order to get more this competition is killed of in order to get a bigger share of the pie. That's pretty crummy.

If anything, this is an argument for finding ways to take closed system aquaculture and greatly improved it and make it more widespread. The heavier your rely on natural resources for things, the more you mess nature up in various complicated ways. If you can get the whaling argument down to "they taste good" it might be easier to put an end to it. Or maybe whale and dolphin meat could be lab grown.

All I know for fact is that fighting this issue through the law isn't working. Might have to do it with capitalism instead.

[–]phartnocker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Holy. Fuck.

A voice of reason. Thank you, sir or ma'am.

[–]lmorsino 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What the fuck is it with the Japanese and slaughtering sea mammals?

[–]Gobyinmypants -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The US showed them a picture of a whale and dolphin piloting the Enola Gay, and have been pissed at them ever since.

[–]CecilBDeMilles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What the hell is wrong with people