i'm not a peta person, but i don't think its nessary.. its not like we need to burn the oils from them.
yeah i know that they say that they need the oil for some machines.. but can't we make a the oil from something different?
2007-02-15 05:05:32 · 10 answers · asked by ♥lois c♥ ☺♥♥♥☺ 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
i just heard from the bbc that a japanese whaler burned up and i can't say that i'm not glad. i hope that the men are ok... but still
2007-02-15 05:15:06 · update #1
I agree that hunting whales provides so little benefit to a civilization that it's not worth the harm done to the world's population of whales. However, you and I are a trivial minority.
The primary motive for hunting whales is simply money. There's money to be made destroying the earth's resources. You can blame capitalism, or human greed. Personally, I blame the world's organized religions because "faith" legitimizes the faulty logic believers invariably use to justify their irrational actions. The Christian Bible gives mankind "dominion" over all the creatures of Earth. To most believers this means humans have God's permission to destroy the planet.
2007-02-15 05:26:05 · answer #1 · answered by Diogenes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Apparently we can oil machines with something besides whale oil, so obviously the Japanese could too.
The Japanese also eat whale meat. Just as obviously, whale meat is not an essential nutrient. It is not even a big part of the Japanese diet.
The Japanese are gradually gaining an awareness of the value of whales, they are just a bit behind the rest of the world in this.
2007-02-15 05:13:09 · answer #2 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Japanese demand for whale meat doesn't use up even the restricted supply. The Japanese government is making a promotional campaign for whale meat and talking about introducing it to school menus to increase demand but I can't see this a neccessary use of Japanese tax payers money, They then ask the IWF (bribing some 3rd world members) to increase the supply of a product they can't sell... If there's logic there I can't see it.
2007-02-15 05:22:55 · answer #3 · answered by Red P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the hassle is the whaling foyer in Japan has performed the propaganda warfare in an exceedingly smart trend. In Japan, the problem of whaling is very virtually unreported and maximum jap do not even see it as an difficulty. even as the whaling foyer and is challeneged by potential of global communities, they play the nationalism card at homestead to get public help and in reality denounce their accusers of racism. something about jap custom seems to grant them a elementary lack of appreciate for flora and fauna no matter if or not this is whales or different species.
2016-10-17 07:18:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be nice if the Japanese and Norwegians didn't want to kill whales, but I don't think that we have the right to blather to them about killing one kind of animal or another. There really are more important things for us to be worrying about, don't you think?
As long as the whales aren't going extinct, then we don't really have any basis for complaint. I don't feel that whales have any more or less right to life than cows, say, or wolves, and most people don't mind others killing them. Some do, of course.
Not everything in this world is going to be *exactly* the way we want it, and we shouldn't expect it or try to make it so. It didn't work for Hitler, did it?
2007-02-15 15:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No they don't....however, the Minke whale which is the main species the Japanese hunt seems to be numerous enough to stand being harvested.
The other part of your question deals with spermaceti which was used to lubrication in precision instruments etc. It has been made sythetically for years, so no sperm whales are killed to obtain it.
2007-02-15 05:14:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i agree with you because whales are hunted for their oil and their flesh.this should be stopped.oil should not be made by killing these poor creatures as they are under extinction now.
2007-02-15 05:12:03 · answer #7 · answered by shon t 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No they don't, they much of it is "scientific research" to continue getting away with killing whales for NO just cause.
2007-02-15 14:59:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hell just because there saying there are enough of them is just a bunch of bull **** there hunting them for there oil and there meat for on the black market for alot of money so
HELL ******* NO ! ! !
2007-02-15 07:51:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They only do it because there is a demand for it.
2007-02-15 05:09:59 · answer #10 · answered by ktbaron 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋