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To my surprise, it appears to actually be true. This is really effed up. |
I remember a National Geographic article from my youth that covered this. It was quite striking, all that blood in the water. The article wasn't preachy at all, it was just documenting this tradition.
For what it's worth, they eat the meat. It's a very important food source for them. How do you feel about hunting deer in the US? |
Can you imagine those dolphins running rampant, tearing up people lawns, and getting hit by cars all the time?
Culling is an important part of wildlife management. |
If only we could apply culling to human management.
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What's appalling here, is the number that are killed and the cruel and slow death they suffer. I'm not sure how happy you all would be if hunters went at the deer with ropes and machetes. |
No-one seems to give a damn about fish though, perhaps it's because they don't have a cute, smiling face or maybe it's just that they don't make "a grim cry like that of a new born child" while they're being killed.
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The thing that shocked me about fish, was when i found out just how long some of them live. Cod, for instance. That mainstay of Fish&Chip shops throughout my childhood. Some of the fish I ate when I was 10 were probably five or six decades older than I was. Maybe even older than that.
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That's why it's best to eat them while they're young.
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According to the wikipedia information, they actually sever the spinal cord very quickly, the gaff is intended to bring them into the beach. Not that that makes it any better.
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Yes, it's barbaric and cruel and we should all be appalled.
But we should all be appalled at the way the Japanese treat sea life, or how we treat domesticated land animals that we use for food, or at countless other examples of how we treat animals appallingly badly. Why is this barbaric, but a lot of the rest of them aren't? |
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Okay, rephrasing then:
why is the internet all up in arms about this, but apathetic to the rest of the shit? |
These are apparently an endangered species for one.
Kill all the deer you want, there are too effin many of them around here. Don't really get what you are trying to accomplish. |
Again - look at Japan. They do this, except instead of a couple hundred dolphins by a buncha kids, its thousands and thousands and thousands of endangered fish and sea mammals on an industrial-fishery scale.
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It's a dog eat dolphin world we live in.
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