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You have probably eaten dolphin if you were eating canned tuna before they came out with "dolphin safe" I hear whale does not taste that great to westerners, kind of an acquired taste, from a friend of mine who has eaten it.
 
Whale meat is kind of an acquired taste I think. It wasn't too bad when I tried it, but then again I probably eat a lot of stuff that you would have to think twice about eating.
 
You can not buy Whale meat or blubber in the states (but I've tried it via an native Alaskan and it's nasty IMO). They do kill and eat dolphins and dolphin was never put in tuna prior to "dolphin safe". Dolphin tastes and looks nothing like tuna so it would never be a substitute. Dolphins chase and eat small tuna the the fish tuna chase (and other fish that chase the food tuna eat). In the past they'd simply grab the entire lot and harvest it. What wasn't tuna was tossed over board as by-catch and left to die. Most do not survive the netting and release.
 
phishphood said:
... I probably eat a lot of stuff that you would have to think twice about eating.
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I was at a Vietnamese market the other day and they were selling live turtles. My kids and I were looking at them and one of the guy came over and asked me if I actually eat that. I told him yeah why not. He looked at me all weird and walked away shaking his head LOL ...
 
back to the topic,

it's sad that people kill whales but the people on whale wars disgust me. they are totally terrorists in my book with their ramming of ships and throwing stuff on board. if that was my ship, i'd kill anyone that tries to get on board despite their cause.

on top of that, the captain of that ship is an a_hole. he demands people volunteer but won't take any risk himself. perhaps if he did i would respect his method of approaching his cause better.
 
reefdan said:
back to the topic,

it's sad that people kill whales but the people on whale wars disgust me. they are totally terrorists in my book with their ramming of ships and throwing stuff on board. if that was my ship, i'd kill anyone that tries to get on board despite their cause.

on top of that, the captain of that ship is an a_hole. he demands people volunteer but won't take any risk himself. perhaps if he did i would respect his method of approaching his cause better.
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Boarding another vessel at high sea uninvited is piracy. No country I know off allows such actions. 100% agree about the captain. He'll put others in harms way but he won't even talk to most of them, that's what his officers are for according to him. I understand the need for the tiered control of the boat but a captain does not need to act like him to have control.

And the volunteers....IMO they should all need to take a simple seamanship class prior to embarking on their mission. No training them is very irresponsible.
 
Gresh, I agree with you on this one. Even though they tries to save whales, I like that fact, but I do not like the fact that these volunteers are so untrain for these mission. The captain only cares about getting the mission done, but he place his volunteer indanger. Yes, jumping on another vessel is extremely against the law and it place the volunteer in jepordy with the safety and law.
 
Killing whales for food in principle is not sad. We kill all sorts of animals all the time for food. If you are an omnivore and eat beef/chicken etc, do you feel sad about the meat you are eating? If you are vegitarian/vegan because you feel killing animals is wrong in principle, then this need not apply to you ;)

Killing whales to the point that it hurts their population is sad.


I had a convo with some work people the other day about odd foods around the world. One item was dogs or horses etc. These animals are food in various parts of the world. We "americans" get repulsed by the idea of them as food for no reason other than the emotional attachment to the concept of "pets". I'm sure that if hypothetically pigs replaced dogs as the household pet, we as an american culture would not be eating bacon or ham etc.
 
I fully agree with you there Tony. While I wouldn't eat dog for personal reasons, I respect the fact other cultures will and do. I as well have no problem with people eating whale but since there really is no sustainable harvest for most whales I do have a problem with the collection.
 
same with me. if they weren't endangered i'd have a fat whale steak. too bad others don't see it that way. same thing is happening with sharks. they're a vital part of our ecosystem that elitists (true and pseudo) in a few asian countries are eliminating for the same of a cup of marginally nutritious soup. too bad those countries don't really have enforceable regulations.

as for the captain, they should throw him overboard. poor ambitious volunteers, i don't think many of them realized what they were getting themselves into.
 
I just really don't like the fact that these animals are being scarce everyday and catching them will deplete there population even more. I have never seen a whale, in the wild, in my life yet, but I have seen on the side of shore being a corpse.
 
nanocube-boy said:
I just really don't like the fact that these animals are being scarce everyday and catching them will deplete there population even more. I have never seen a whale, in the wild, in my life yet, but I have seen on the side of shore being a corpse.
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But seeing a dead whale on most shores in the world equates to a dead whale not from whaling but from other causes. You will be hrad pressed to find a carcass of a whaled whale, they use nearly everything.

Here in the states they get hit by boats are die from starvation (with a few other causes in tow as well). The last couple were mere babies that got hit by boats IIRC>
 
yea. I know it's not from whaling. There are so many type of causes of death in the ocean. My point is basically I don't like the fact fact that they are catching them while whales at states of becoming endangers. That's what I do do not like, but I fully undersstand that we can never stop this situation. It will continue happen until there aren't anymore more left.
 
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