This gets me steamed up.

If whales are tasty and the ones you're eating aren't endangered why should it be the business of anybody else if you choose to eat it.

Also don't trust it when the article describes the whale meat as being 'endangered' when they don't identify the species. There are plenty of whale species out there doing fine thank you very much.

 

Just to add, I found "The Cove" to be very eye opening. I know they had their agenda, however the film footage does not lie. Really makes you think.

 

They did identify the species, though.

Samples were then sent to the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University, confirming that the meat was indeed from a whale. Worse yet, DNA from the samples indicated more specifically that the animal was a Sei whale, an endangered species.

 

good now prosecute the mother ****ers. I mean really is it that big of a deal to have to give up something tasty for people?

 

Odd, I thought whale fat was the product that the Japanese liked, not the meat.

And no one knows how the meat was acquired, at least not yet, the whale could have died in a fishing net.

As for "endangered species" Darwinism never rests...

 

if you want to view it as such then you should stop going to the doctor as that is a form of countering darwinism as well...........

 

Not particularly, Darwin dealt in entire species..like the whale species in the article..

 

I've been feeding *****es whale meat for along time now. I never knew it was illegal. Maybe it's only illegal if I charge to let them feast.

 

WHAT?!!?? Eat people instead of whale???

 

Gotta be honest the idea of eating whale is completely disgusting, they are close to sentinent beings, they have "families" and communicate across thousands of miles of ocean.

The other stuff like "endangered species" strikes me as a bit..overwrought..if folks believe in Darwinism and Natural Selection, then species will go extinct as a part of the natural course of life, they lost life's lottery, EOS.

 

Hmm..so extinction is not a part of Darwin's Theory?

How many whale species have gone extinct before now? Hundreds? Thousands? Tens?

 

Natural selection has everything to do with advancing the strongest and smartest of a species; it has almost nothing to do with the extinction of entire species by factors beyond their control...ie: the dinosaurs and the asteroid. :wink2:

 

Best adapted to their environment Nabo, not neccessarily the strongest or smartest, a species either adapts, or is fossilized, there is no plan B.

For example, the Woolly Mammoths, they were around recently on an island in Siberia during the time of the Roman Empire, they just could not adapt enough to re-establish themselves and perished, thems the breaks.

Surviving Predation is a part of adaptation

 

whales - like ourselves and dolphins - are self aware. thats reason enough for me to not hunt them.

darwin is a *****. there's no need to give him a hand.

 

:hi5:

It's sort of a disgusting thought really.

Well, Darwin never got into the actual mechanics of extinction, just that species would go extinct simply because they could not adapt to a changing environment, in that sense Darwin didn't need a hand as there have been species of whale that have gone extinct that were not hunted by man, they just were selected out via their very natures.

 

i suppose it makes sense that there are federal laws against selling marine mammals, but i guess there is an exception for the Inuit. or maybe they just dont sell it

i wonder how expensive it must have been

 

A canon launched harpoon from a high tech whale finding ship isn't natural predation though. Or is it?

I guess one could say that if mans over hunting or chemical dumping and or whatever else disrupts the natural balance enough that the food chain is destroyed and most species including man die off there will be a new set of species to rise from the rubble. Just like those that came after the dinosaurs failed the cosmic dodge ball test.

None of it matters though as we all know the whales will be saved when their home planets mother ship shows up and starts evaporating the oceans.

 

I have a different take when it comes to "endangered species". If a species is dying off b/c it's too lazy to reproduce like the Panda, that's one thing. But it's another when we hunt it to extinction. And the reason I think it should concern us is that we don't know what effect removing a species will have on the rest of the food cycle. We could very easily end up creating a situation we may not be able to adapt to. I think we have a vested interest in keeping the status quo for ourselves.

And BTW I'm not talking about a Star Trek IV scenario. I'm thinking something where we just disrupt some essential element of the food chain like how bees seen to dying out.