Whale wars!

The crew on whale wars are nothing more than glorified terrorists. Frankly, they should all be put in jail.

There whale wars idiots make me sick man. South Park Lampooning them put a big smile on my face.

Honestly I couldn't care less if other countries whale, hell I support.

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Originally Posted by Seru1

There whale wars idiots make me sick man. South Park Lampooning them put a big smile on my face.

Honestly I couldn't care less if other countries whale, hell I support.

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LMAO, you saw that too!? Stan was so funny in that one!

Whaling is currently done by the following:

Inuit in Canada
Faroe Islands
Greenland
Iceland
Lamalera in Indonesia
Japan
Norway
Russia
Natives of St Vincent and the Grenadines
Inuit in the United States


It seems likely that the primary reason that whaling countries are continuing to whale in the face of international opposition is because there IS international opposition. Someone ELSE is telling them that they CAN'T. Of course they're defensive and they're going to keep on doing it.

Small numbers of animals taken by native cultures using traditional methods make up the rest of the story. Some of these countries are trying to hold on tightly to a cultural heritage. If pressure from the outside were removed...ie, they were permitted to engage in some controlled commercial whaling...then perhaps they could begin to view it more objectively.

Whale meat is toxic. It's horribly sad, but it's undeniably true. Many Japanese folks are already starting to realize that it's not worth it, and have given up eating it. The levels of mercury in whale meat are truly staggering.

They need to be given some breathing space to work on the issue internally. The meat is too hazardous be eaten, and once they're allowed to do so, it seems very likely that first the people will reject and then, finally, the government will ban its sale because it is a public health hazard. Tradition only goes so far. That one has been lost to pollution.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12685467

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Originally Posted by Sadistic Serpent

LMAO, you saw that too!? Stan was so funny in that one!

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I had that song cartman was singing in my head for like a week :rofl:

Starving country meat - whales sell for about $100,000, still starving?
Majority are Mink whales, that's ok - it's not ok, they ARE hunting endangered species.
It's there heritage - still not ok. If history has taught us ANYTHING then we should know that just becaus it's always happens doesn't mean it's ok.

You know what, everyone should strt slaying endangered species! Let's wipe the earth clean of everything but ourselves. Then let's see how long we last?

Sure the crew doesn't do much but they're doing a lot more then you or I. The show has to be dramatized or nobody would watch it. And year after year I would hope they get better, hence learning from you mistakes...

And you can't compare a whale to a cow. If cows were in danger of extinction (that means once they're gone they ain't never coming back ;)) you wouldn't catch me killing them.

If you let these people and countries wipe out whales why will be the next "delicacy"?

I think they're doing sumthing.

I think permitting commercial whaling would most likely reduce the incidence of endangered species being taken.

That having been said, I am totally with the 'Whale Wars' guys. I think the Japanese whalers should be stopped, because their activities are illegal.