Shinji Ikehashi wrote:

> Brett Robson wrote:
> > No, I am deadly serious. Japan has no rights to those animals.
>
> Yet, you indulge in a craving for Kobe beef...

Japanese farmers and merchants are willingly selling "their" beef to people who give
them money, as surely as the world is selling Japan a full 60% of the food they eat,
because Japanese are no longer willing to grow food for themselves.

In light of the threats to the world food supply such as economic development when
nations such as China turn from agriculture to become net importers of food,
declining farmlands, limited supplies of fresh water, and simple poor weather, such a
policy of remaining so dependent for a commodity as basic as food is insane.

I suppose when the world runs short on food, Japan will simply try to buy some, and
deny food to the poor in countries which really need it.