Whale Jail

[Fat Homer]

I hate when people abuse things like this. When this type of stuff happens, they wreck it for the people who are doing it by the books. I hate shady businesses.

There is no real reason i can see why they should be kept at all... the scientific reasoning Japan uses is just an excuse to catch them and send their meat back as a food source...

The rest are pretty much used for entertainment purposes only (i.e theme park attractions)...

Then there is also a small percentage that is used for creating certain products such as cosmetics or something similar...

Its a shame what humans are doing to the world and makes me often wonder what will be left of our oceans and forests in another 50years time at the rate we’re going...

 

[Matteus]

There is no real reason i can see why they should be kept at all... the scientific reasoning Japan uses is just an excuse to catch them and send their meat back as a food source...

The rest are pretty much used for entertainment purposes only (i.e theme park attractions)...

Then there is also a small percentage that is used for creating certain products such as cosmetics or something similar...

Its a shame what humans are doing to the world and makes me often wonder what will be left of our oceans and forests in another 50years time at the rate we’re going...

I agree with what you are saying here. MY concern is that so many people are doing shady things in these places that when someone else wants to do something reputable, not necessarily meaning in the (whaling) industry, they are under all kinds of scrutiny.

 

[Fat Homer]

True, im sure there probably are some legitimate reasons why people may need to do scientific research using endangered species, but again, its probably few and far between all the more shady practices that happen all the time...

 

[PYRU]

Wow. I've never seen anything like that. Doesn't surprise me especially with the location

 

[Ulu]

I don't have any issue with eating animals or training performing animals, if done as humanely as possible.
We all keep fish in boxes and pat ourselves about who has the best tope.
I kill random fish and cook them whenever I get to take out the boat.

My separation is but a matter of degrees.

 

[Fat Homer]

I don't have any issue with eating animals or training performing animals, if done as humanely as possible.
We all keep fish in boxes and pat ourselves about who has the best tope.
I kill random fish and cook them whenever I get to take out the boat.

My separation is but a matter of degrees.

True, its a very fine line between the two, except we normally dont keep highly intelligent / endangered animals in very small glass boxes for our entertainment...

Otherwise, i do agree with what you said...

 

[Ulu]

I don't want you to think that I like what they are doing over there, but it's just really hard for me to be holier than thou in these situations.

People in other parts of the world eat animals we would considered intelligent. I don't know if they are more intelligent than a whale or dolphin. But just because they are raising aquatic mammals for food I can't get very excited about it.

Re. endangered species, human beings are a very endangered species. We won't save the planet. We probably can't save ourselves.

This planet is going to change and we're not going to stop it. All we're going to do is adapt.

 

[imabot]

I don't have any issue with eating animals or training performing animals, if done as humanely as possible.

There was a piece in National Geographic this month on animal tourism (instagram photos and watching them "perform") There was a troupe of dancing polar bears located in Moscow mentioned.

 

[Fat Homer]

I don't want you to think that I like what they are doing over there, but it's just really hard for me to be holier than thou in these situations.

People in other parts of the world eat animals we would considered intelligent. I don't know if they are more intelligent than a whale or dolphin. But just because they are raising aquatic mammals for food I can't get very excited about it.

Re. endangered species, human beings are a very endangered species. We won't save the planet. We probably can't save ourselves.

This planet is going to change and we're not going to stop it. All we're going to do is adapt.

I see where you are coming from and im not trying to be holier than thou (but if it came off that way, it wasnt my intention by any means)

Anyway... you are correct that there are people in some parts of the world that eat these animals, although they also do it for survival and part of their teachings growing up (think along the lines of traditional fisherman / tribes type thing)...

However, when its done on an industrial scale such as this is when i think we are going a bit overboard...

The article also mentioned something like 15 are allowed to be caught each year for commercial use / sale but as seen in the photo, they just seem to be hoarding them playing a legal loophole in the system, instead of giving these whales a potential chance to keep reproducing in the wild...

 

[Ulu]

Dancing polar bears don't bother me. I got P.O.'d when they decided they weren't going to have elephants at the circus anymore. I have seven granddaughters to take to the circus and what a freaking disappointment that was.

See it's okay to torture human beings on television with all kinds of nonsense situations for the pleasure of voyeuristic morons. But somehow animal training is seen as a worse form of torture than what is inflicted on humans.

But I don't hold with poachers either, & if these guys are violating an international treaty then we should sink their operation.