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| Whaling Is An Ecologically Sustainable Enterprise. |
| Those who oppose whaling are quick to talk of how cruel and inhumane it is. But other than ethical issues, are there other reasons we should not allow Japan and other nations to hunt whales? The Minke whale, the most hunted whale is in fact also the most abundant whale, and we all know that it is in no way in these countries' interest to drive whales to extinction. I have researched this thoroughly, and believe that whaling IS sustainable. |
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Whales are the enemy. Do the whale defenders realise how many fish whales eat? Up to 500 million
tonnes per year - vastly more than all human fishing combined. Fish stocks are running low around
the world in part due to the predatory action of greedy whales.
Whales are so big they have hardly any natural predators except us. So by imposing a special ban on
hunting them, we are removing the natural check which nature placed on their numbers. As a result,
whales are proliferating and fish stocks are being ravaged.
Anyone who saves a whale is actually condemning hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of fish to
death through being eaten alive over the course of the whale's lifetime. Why should the whale's life
be more valuable than the lives of all those fish?
Whale brains are larger than human brains, yet they have failed to develop any advanced technology
such as space ships. Water, the natural environment of whales, makes up two thirds of the earth's
surface; land only one third. Despite this, it was a land creature, man, that rose to dominance on
the planet. This shows that whales are a failed species.
By now, they should probably have been the dominant life-form on the planet, flying over us in whale
aircraft, hunting us down for food or "scientific research". There should be internal campaigns
within whale society about whether or not they should "Save the Human" and debates about whether
hunting humans was ecologically sustainable. Instead, it's the other way around. Whales had their
chance and fluffed it. They are a failed species and we have indulged them with too much pity. |
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Yes. Yes it is. The Minke Whale is in abundant supply and is in no danger of extinction. However,
many coastal societies depend on whaling as a source of food. In addition, the reason USA wants a
ban on whaling is so that these poor coastal regions have to import food from America, and thus
improve the American economy. |
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05 May 2008 09:57
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