Haluk wrote:

> "GOD BLESS AMERICA" <spreading_nippon_news@yahoo.com>, haber iletisinde
> sunlari yazdi:d48745bb.0311050715.2f62d85b@posting.google.com...
> > Japanese are responsible for the extinction of many Sea creatures.
> > Soon there will be no more fish, dolphin, whales, crabs, tuna etc left
> > in the ocean and thanks to Japan for all this.
>
> Well, I personally think it is perfectly OK to kill animals for eating or
> obtaining raw materials. We've been doing this all around the world for
> lamb, chicken, cows, pigs, almost all fishes... List goes on.
>
> What's the difference with dolphins or whales?

Even the Japanese government is recently publicly forced to acknowledge the
unsafe levels of heavy metals and pollutants such as dioxins contained in their
meat, while not restricting its sale and consumption the way they do INDIVIDUAL
Japanese beef carcasses with BSE (they did not cull millions of head or entire
generations of cattle the way some countries did in an effort to prevent spread
of the disease), or completely banning beef and feed imports from countries
that had instances of BSE even after measures as extreme as culls. Eating such
contaminated Japanese seafood is a much higher risk, probably a statistical
certainty based on test results, than encountering any foreign beef with BSE.

See a difference yet? When there is a Japanese problem, action may be limited
to an individual or company basis, as with Snow Brand, or simply disposing of
the sick cow. Not as nearly so when it is a "foreign" problem, and the entire
industry or country may be discriminated against.

> If they (Japs) eat it or use
> it for some other purpose, It is perfectly fine. Japanese can consume a
> whale fully, without no leftovers. They can use meat, fat, bone,
> intestinals, everything. So, economically it aint wasting.

Yes, Japanese whaling is not whaling for oil or baleen, which is why I do not
criticize them for simply doing it.

> Other people are killing animals just for fun. Opposing sport hunting I can
> understand, but this is different.
>
> What's next? Are we going to ban picking vegetables or herbs? They are alive
> too?!?

Now vegetables we do not know how to avoid.