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02-01-2012, 06:55 PM | #16 |
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well ... for one thing, they're pilot whales. Dolphins apparently have better press appeal, so they're calling these guys dolphins.
There are over 200,000 of them, and the hunt takes out around 200 or so. Isn't that like 0.1%?
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02-01-2012, 06:58 PM | #17 |
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What's the problem with killing all those sharks? Those kids are brave.
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02-01-2012, 06:59 PM | #18 |
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whale meat is pretty high up on the menu in most of the northern European countries.
I thought they looked like pilot whales, but really couldn't be arsed looking it up.
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02-01-2012, 07:04 PM | #19 | |
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Here's an interesting response to this email:
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02-01-2012, 07:13 PM | #20 |
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They aren't endangered, according to Wiki. Theres something like a half million of the two types, they take a couple thousand in the Faroes and the Japs take less than 500, each year.
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02-01-2012, 07:42 PM | #21 |
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Pilot whales are dolphins.
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02-01-2012, 07:46 PM | #22 |
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http://earthfirst.com/pilot-whales-b...faroe-islands/
http://marinebio.org/species.asp?id=354 Yeah, not endangered. Those are some gruesome looking pictures I concede. And slaughtering animals is not pretty, wherever it happens, especially in a scale like this and with animals as large as this.
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02-01-2012, 08:00 PM | #23 |
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Yes.
"Pilot whales are among the largest of the oceanic dolphins, exceeded in size only by the killer whale. They and other large members of the dolphin family are also known as blackfish." - via Wiki.
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02-01-2012, 08:27 PM | #25 |
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Why does Jinx owe you a coke?
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02-01-2012, 08:36 PM | #26 |
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...I can't tell if you're really asking... if not, please pretend I'm not about to be a pedantic ass just below this.
so, ah, "Jinx!" is what you say when you and someone else say something at the same time. They "jinxed" you. And the debt of a Coke goes to whoever says "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" first after the two people say something simultaneously. I dunno, it's just a thing that kids said in the 80s. |
02-01-2012, 08:37 PM | #27 |
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Not that I'm advocating this, but blood goes so much further in water/on snow, it's no wonder seal and sea creature hunts are always the subject of the complaints. it looks fucking terrible, but is there more blood lost than in -say- the preparation of Halal meat? It's just that that is a lot tidier, mesuspects.
Or are we shocked by which species is being eaten here? Because where do we draw the line there? How intelligent is inedible? How shall we test, and can we apply the same test and potential fate to members of the human race? Because many of them are too stoopit to live...... Some pigs are smart SMRT... Spiderpig, spiderpig....
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02-01-2012, 09:31 PM | #29 |
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If intelligence is a measure of what we can eat, I can understand where cannibalism started from.
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