Do you agree with Japan's whaling?

Question

Japan are trying to over turn the international ban on whaling. But either way, they will continue whaling for 'scientific purposes'. Since when was eating whale science... Makes me dislike japan.

Appeals to tradition are groundless, they are fallacious, if we can give an adequate counter argument that they should not be done. Your basing the justification on tradition gives no valid means for contining to whale. Btw, Im not american.

Answer 1

This is a "copy and paste" from an answer I gave recently on the same topic. I am not here to debate about animal rights or activism. I respect other's opinion and answers - please read my answer first and then have the courtesy to respect mine.
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I eat meat. I make no apology for this. I have no problem with hunting animals for food.

Hoewever, I am opposed to whale hunting for a number of reasons.
Whale number is very much close to extinct. The Japanese don't seem to care. I remembered years ago - probably before even some of you on this anwer page was even born. But a representative from Japan said that they will hunt whales until there is not more (to hunt). That is such a stupid reasoning. If they want to have whale fo their consumption, they must think about being able to sustain it.

I am opposed to the way the whale is hunted. It is cruel. Extremely cruel, prolonged agonising death. I would only agree to whale hunting if there is a better, more humane way.

As someone else said - while it is being eaten in Japan. Only a few actually do. This is more of a prestige than food to survive. Some of the other countries hunt whale because it IS food. There is a difference.

To say that it is hunted for "scientific research" is an insult to our intelligence. It is offensive. How many whale do they need to split open from head to tail for ONE tissue sample? Let's call hunting "hunting" and not research.

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Thanks for allowing me to answer.

Answer 2

Deception is a two way street here.
Japan evades bans on whaling by pretending its for "scientific research" even though its not.
Anti-whaling advocates try to keep whaling banned forever by pretending the hunted species are still "endangered", even though they're not.

Both sides are happy, because they both get to keep playing the game and getting either cash for whale meat, or cash from left-wing donations.
In fact, if the anti-whaling advocates actually got what they wanted, both sides would be out of work. I think they're happy that there is some limited whaling which they can protest against.

Ethically, I don't really see much difference between eating whale and eating cow. And since there is no great demand for whale oil and ambergris these days, there is no chance at all that resuming commercial whaling for the meat will result in the decimation that occured over 100 years ago.

But maybe you on the left do see an ethical difference, which makes this a clash of cultural values. And YOU want to impose your culture on a foreign people? Doesn't sound very "liberal" to me.

Whale sushi is not the most tasty, kind of like a cross between a raw steak and maguro(tuna). But I like to "research" the flavor once in a while, all in the name of science!

Answer 3

Yes. Japanese has been used every inch of the whale for fuel, food, clothes, and more various use. Its been done from ancient time and is a tradition. It almost means the same as you kill cows to eat delicious beef steak or to make a belt. If the whaling does not hurt the ecosystem too much, it'll be fine.

Answer 4

No. The planet Earth exchange into called Gaia (The Cleaved Planet) for a reason. The Pacific Ocean is almost a huge wound this is therapeutic. many countries contained in the Pacific Rim, no longer in ordinary terms Japan, are guaranteed to journey some sort of sinking because of the fact the tectonic plates rearrange themselves. How exchange into Gaia wounded? it somewhat is echoed contained in the 1st verses of Genesis. The moons or "winds" of a roving planet called by employing the ancients as "The Lord" inhonor of their chief deity (between the elohim) hit a huge watery planet of the photograph voltaic gadget. The shattered a million/2 of this planet grew to alter into the "firmament" or rakiah ("hammered-out bracelet"), the Asteroid Belt. The intact a million/2 exchange into dislodge to a diverse orbit and grew to alter into the planet Earth. The wound of Gaia, the Pacific Ocean, remains therapeutic. Continents and complete international places will nevertheless be affected contained sooner or later.

Answer 5

There's a difference between subsitence whaling and commercial whaling under the guise of scientific research. The former will only hunt a limited number of whale for a limited number of people. The latter is fueled by free enterprise of supply and demand.

While some pseudo-intellectuals will try to blow off whaling as being hardly any more immoral than eating beef, they forget one simple common sense fact - cows are regulated: they are bred and raised and their numbers maintained UNLIKE that of whale which are culled haphazardly from the seas without replenishable stocks.

You can argue the immorality of either till your Cafe Latte gets cold but the bottomline is that cows are not and have not and in the long future will not be an endangered species. Whereas the collective group species of whales are free ranging less manageable stock whose numbers cannot be as easily regulated as say even deer due to their watery environment.

In addition whale meat still carries the stigma of the poor man's steak in the post-war period of Japan.
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Cultural? What's cultural about whaling in Antartica? Whaling was cultural too in Euope and America but we got over that.
http://samuraidave.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/japan-to-re-assess-whaling-ban-for-their-white-elephant-whaling-industry/

Answer 6

I love japan, but whaling is the one thing I don't agree with. I don't agree with the hunting of any animals, whaling is cruel and unecissary and of course, doing it under the pretence of 'scientific purposes' is wrong. But you can't say that you dislike japan because it hunts animals, because although they're wales, they're still animals. Dislike some other country that kills monkeys and steals their babies.

Answer 7

NO I DO NOT.

But who owns whales lives? or any resources of the earth?
None. We insist they are belong to us just for our reasons.

We shouldn't hunt any animals more than we need for our lives. Hunting is no mercy. Killing is brutal. Taking lives for living is a necessary evil.

Answer 8

Why US don't mention that Alaskan ppl and some minority in WA doing whaling? It's creeping.
And real fact is many whales are not endangered since long time ago. They have been eaten up your marine resources (fishes you eat in dinner.)
You can find the data of the research easily from the whaling countries, not only Japan.
Face the fact. It is not about "over turn" issue.

IWC doesn't give oppotunity for whaling nations, including Japanese representatives, to claim and give some data out in the meeting.
It is unfair. isn't it?

Answer 9

What would Americans say if a bunch of Hindus said no more Big Macs for you? Or if Muslims said no more bacon?

Answer 10

How about Slaughter house in the USA? And people enjoy eating stake? Either way, it is brutal.