 ouyangwulong says: Japan is planing on killing a THOUSAND whale for "research"?!? What on earth are they possibly researching? And what will they possibly do with all that whale? I mean, seriously, imagine EATING a THOUSAND WHALES! I'm confused about this anyway. In the past we hunted whales for oil, not food, which is why whaling was such big business. Since then we have discovered that it is far easier to hunt other things for oil, such as citizens of the developing world. (And thanks to high birth rates those aren't endangered yet!) So the question is: what do the Japanese have against the whales? A thousand whales sounds like they've got a grudge to settle! I mean this isn't just "a little research." This is more like Ahab "researching" the white whale! Japanese kill whales to find out how old they are. They are not smart enough to do it the way we Australians do it, IE, by collecting floating skin samples and checking the DNA. Also the Japanese will eat anything, during WW2 in New Guinea and elsewhere, they would eat Australians! I know this is true, as my father was there as an intelligence officer, and investigated at least one genuine instance. They are not like the rest of us. I would imagine that the reason the Japanese kill the whales is that they sell the meat afterwards. (Can't do this unless you kill them first.) You can't convince me that the people who invented the robot that plays the trumpet don't know how to figure out the age of a whale from skin samples! On the other hand, perhaps they're just trying to be precise: it's like Heisenberg's Uncertainty Theorem. They could find out how old the whale is, but then as soon as they do, it just gets older! Dang whales! It's their fault. Also, I think it's really lame that not only does the Japanese government sell the meat, it promotes it. There are millions of dollars spent on advertising campaigns trying to... Disambiguation: Just to be clear, what I was talking about above is the plastic/chenille crap upon which has been enblazoned the infernal image of hello-kitty, not the infernal crap extruded from the hello-kitty itself, which as a matter of fact is a delicacy in Japan necessary for making the miso sauce in which they serve panda-fetus and condor eggs. |
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