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ENVIRONMENT: Japan Spites Whaling Ban With Gourmet Offerings
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=33450

Poor whales! But are they more or less intelligent than pigs? We eat pigs and they are intelligent, too. Horses, cows, chickens are all bred to be dumb. They couldn't do that with pigs. Are sheep dumb? I have never read anything about sheep's intelligence.

Really, I am quite glad that my food is all cut and cleaned off when I buy it in the store so I don't have to kill it myself.

Are goats smart? Are some fish smart? How about lobsters? Who determines what is smart enough that we would not eat it?

Isn't that why people don't want to see whales hunted, because they are smart and live in family units and supposedly mate for life?

Swans mate for life and so do some other birds... Crows are smart. People eat ducks, ducks aren't smart?

This is all so confusing.

Hahaha..cheers for the comment Momable

Are sheep dumb?
mmm sheep are extremely stupid...

Are goats smart? Are some fish smart? How about lobsters? Who determines what is smart enough that we would not eat it?

mmm interesting...i eat fish, lobster in Maori food of the sea is called 'kai moana'...

...But i will not eat whales. Aotearoa has a history of whaling, ...
For me Momable it comes to down to.. 'Whale sanctuary'..
If there was/is a Swan sanctuary and i lived near to the said sanctuary i would not partake of consuming said Swan...
Aotearoa has bird protection and bird sanctuarys, mainly on small outer Islands and mainly our native birds..
I will not eat a Kiwi, kakapo, kokako, Tui, Ruru or Kereru our fat wood pidgeons....
If you ever have the chance to swim with whales Momable I would love to be with you when you do.... they deserve every respect and integrity we can possibly bestow upon them and that is not to say we shouldn't show respect to the creatures you have referred to..
..we are supposedly the 'intelligent species'...
...after swimming with whales...one thought passed thru my mind the whole time, and that was, this is where intelligence begins and i am but a stupid human...

Love your way 'E'...thankyou..

Well, I must admit I ate porpoise; but it wasn't called porpoise. It was called mai-mai or something like that. I know the porpoise is a small whale.

Whales are admirable creatures! I don't want to eat them or the other smaller whales (porpoise, dolphin) since a lot of this group of creatures are on extinction watches and I don't know which ones are and which are not.

The killing of them for food I would not condemn if people really need the meat to live -- like eskimoes and other Siberian peoples and other Native Americans or any other ethnic group which still does live on the land, not the supermarket and/or groups that still live by bartering and/or in very ancient and nomadic ways.

Japan has a perfundity of seafood, I don't see the need for them to keep whales on the menu. Here in the USA, I have never seen a whale fillet or any part of a whale for sale to consume, with the exception of mai-mai from Hawaii. Even the tuna has labels that say they don't kill porpoises.

Thanks for your answers and comments up above

As for swimming with whales, it is a profound experience to be near a fellow creature that is so large and magnificient! Even viewing whales on TV is memorable. Of course, if I worked with a sanctuary, I would never eat an animal that I am working to save!

However, if there were no food in the world but whales, then I would eat a whale in order to live; and, conversely, if a whale had no food but humans, I believe whales would start eating humans to live, too.

When I was younger, I know I would say I wouldn't even eat a whale if I was starving; but now, to keep my family alive, I would.