Unfortunately Taiwanese people also have a habit of killing dolphins and call it a delicacy, when it actually taste like really tough and hard to swallow beef (yeah… someone told me it’s pork, letter said it’s sea pork 海豬, then I realized it’s dolphin meat).
If you want to make yourself sick, read this blog post from some brainless twit who thinks that factory farming by “white people” is crueler to animals than any practices in asian countries.
Wasn’t there a shocking film made about this a few years ago? From what I remember it was about this? I considered downloading it, but knew I could not handle watching it, so didn’t bother.
[quote=“bumclouds”]If you want to make yourself sick, read this blog post from some brainless twit who thinks that factory farming by “white people” is crueler to animals than any practices in Asian countries.
This is whats going on, its extremely cruel. I am not going to be surprised if the Creator would visit another massive quake on Japan when its people engage in such cruelty.
This just one of many videos that are really painful to watch.
They corner a pod of whales, kill half of them with spears and what not while the other half watches and wait their turn. The others are swimming in the blood of those being killed.
This is extreme cruelty, this is not about food, not about what we as humans need for consumption.
It is cruel beyond imagination.
I wish nothing but evil on those who did and do these slaughters. May they be visited by cruelty upon themselves.
Same goes for those who slaughter baby seals in Canada.
Humans are the most evil of all creatures who inhabited this earth. There are those humans who are as cruel to other humans.
We need to donate to animal rights organizations so their lawyers can push and campaign for stronger animal rights laws and heftier jail terms for cruelty.
We need to donate to animal rights organizations so their lawyers can push and campaign for stronger animal rights laws and heftier jail terms for cruelty.
I think that’s the only thing we can do.[/quote]
Don’t think that would work very well. Until people understand why it’s wrong to do stuff like this, it will continue. We don’t want abuse punished - we want it to stop. And what’s the point of punishing people for behaviour they are unable to analyze for themselves? They simply start feeling persecuted (like the Japanese) and continue the behaviour out of pure bloodymindedness (like the Japanese). In any case, laws are constrained by national boundaries. The realisation must come first; then the national law follows.
Personally I think cruelty to animals is inseparable from other cultural values: reverence for (at least understanding of) the natural world, philosophical memes-of-the-day, religion or quasi-religious beliefs, etc. In Taiwan, for example, ignorance of natural ecology is absolutely shocking. Most people know literally nothing about the role that other species play in the maintenance of the biosphere and their importance to human existence. Such things aren’t taught in school because they’re not “important”.
I was at my vet once and a japanese man had brought a dog in to be treated. He had picked up this dog from the street where it had been run over by a car. He brought the dog in to see if it can be saved , and he is just a passerby. The dog could not be saved and had to be put down to ease his misery.
The man bowed very formally before the body of the dog three times to acknowledge the passing of a life form.
I was moved.
Not all Japanese are cruel like those who slaughter these whales. MOst Japanese are not cruel people and respect life.
But those that practice such cruelty , be they Chinese, Japanese or whatever must be stopped. Yes we want it stopped.