15 Responses to “Don’t Eat Splashy”

1. FackGerbil Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 3:41 am

   Here’s news…our mighty (Australian) government has been granted approval by our Supreme Court to take action against the whalers. However, at the same time, our government has had it’s hands tied by GreenPeace, who are using the Sea Shepherd to conduct piratical attacks on the Japs.

   The latest development is that a pair of hippy-idiots have illegally boarded the Jap vessel and been detained, soon to be faced with charges under international law. Capt. Watson of the Sea Shepherd and it’s affiliated fleet have promised a ‘commando style’ rescue operation - this does not bode well for already strained relations between ‘Stralia and Nipon.

   Furthermore, how can any true blooded Aussie condemn Japanese whaling whilst we are still conducting live stock exports - simply because the occupants of the middle east don’t trust us enough to slaughter the stock in a halal manner. People need to get their priorities right and lose the hypocrisy - now.

   For a slightly more embittered and cynical take on all this, as well as uncomfortable details, head over to my blog. At the same time, witness Seraph’s nasty side as she calls me names

2. R.T. Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 7:28 am

   You know the Safari Club International, the group that loves killin animals, are pretty much the biggest conservationists you’ll ever meet?

   I say that because I love the premise of hunting, it’s very gutteral and effective. I believe too few people take part in hunting, and should try killin’ Bambi once or twice in their life. That being said, upon asking a few members of the SCI what they think about whaling, which has come up in conversation more than once (oddly), the biggest group of animal killers in the world think it’s a goddamn atrocity. They believe all animals should be able to breed and rebuild their populations so a sustainable hunting season can be brought against them.

   Now that’s the logic I like.

   And as for FG and Sera, you two need stop tryin to crawl up each other’s asses. Their’s a way to be a bastard to someone, and debate ain’t it. I’m so dissappointed in you two.

3. FackGerbil Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 7:39 am

   Apparently we are friends and hug one another. Sera and I, not the whales and the Safari Club, that’s different.

   My brain is going to melt with all these inter-blag crossover comment conversational twistings…fuckit, drink’s dun, im’a go pass out. That fixes everything

4. FackGerbil Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 7:42 am

   Also, as a future Army Reservist who plans to be commanding a tank, I welcome a scrap with the fukin smack-faces. Bring it, bitches - let’s see your shitty Self Defence Force take our second best army in the world…and if we’re lucky, the brits will lend us the ghurkas, then we’ll have the best army in the world. pricks.

5. susan Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 11:21 am

   Factory ships, massive trawl lines scraping up everything, navy sonar, pollution. Who ever would have dreamed we could clear the oceans in one human lifetime? It frightens me too.

6. WAT Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

   As great as humanity has been artistically/creatively, I can’t help but always hate our species for being the most selfish and destructive! YEESH! We’ll never learn, and once we do it’ll be too late. Is it too late now I wonder?!

7. rags Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 4:18 pm

   i agree. We seem not to care about what effect our neglect and waste has on our planet. Sadly, our children and their offspring will have to suffer for our nonchalance.

8. kimy Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 4:28 pm

   your message today RIGHTON!! along with the excellent graphics I particularly like today’s photo.

9. lindsaylobe Says:
   January 17th, 2008 at 4:59 pm

   It is indeed elementary my dear Watson!!

   Simply put there is no alternative but to live more simply, as far as is possible to eat what is locally sustainable and in season. Overall vegetables usually take only a fraction of the energy and planetary resources compared to meat from animals. We are what we eat, and what we eat reflects who we are. How we respect animals who we slaughter for food tells us something about ourselves. We can do that humanely or inhumanely.

   The whales remain an endangered species and are hunted and killed in the most inhumane manner conceivable. It takes almost an hour to kill a whale, (thought to have a far larger frontal lobe area of consciousness than ours) and during such a barbaric act the distressed whale would be in full view of the accompanying shoal.
   Most Japanese people don’t like eating whale meat, and eating whale meat was never part of their culture and lifestyle. Much of the whale meat finishes up in uses other than for human consumption.
   The fact that live exports of animals go to the Middle East (previously under inhumane conditions) for religious reasons is a separate issue, hopefully with sufficient pressures the Australian government will eventually ban such exports as does our neighbour New Zealand. But if Australia refrained form live animal exports to the Middle East there are any number of countries willing to fill the void and the current overall standard of transportation care ( mortality rates are around 1%) , would undoubtedly increase.

   Does anyone seriously think there are any other countries who would step into the shoes of Japan, should it finally cease its whaling?

   Incidentally the Sea Shepherd is owned and funded by an independent organisation to Greenpeace. Sea Shepherd was brought by the Sea Shepherd Conservationist Society (previously a Norwegian vessel involves in Biology) and can outrun the Japanese Whalers. Prior to the current event , no Japanese ship has ever been able to harvest or kill whales in the presence of Sea Shepherd, which patrols the great southern ocean on behalf of its clients, the whales. Care to find out more, their website is http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_080110_2.html

   Best wishes and thanks for posting about it !! -

10. Romeika Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    You’re right Seraphine, we all must play a role in this whole thing.. Great comic!

11. Bettina Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    Thank you for bringing this up, Sera. Indeed, we all must play a part, and that includes losing the hypocrisy we all somehow have. We all live in a way that cannot be sustained, and apart from fighting against the killing of endangered species, there is so much more to do, as you say.

    Too many people find it easy enough to cry out about issues such as the whaling (which of course is an atrocity that does need to be fought) while with their lifestyle condoning numerous other atrocities such as pollution, cutting down of rainforest, child labour, social inequalities, war, the perversity of multinational corporations, etc etc.

12. R.T. Says:
    January 17th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    So, I’m pretty sure that my stance on destruction for destructions sake; subtle anarchy for the sake of destruction again, and trying to avoid being a caring member of society, to slowly rot the public out from the inside a little bit quicker (and bring about our total demise) is an opinion that isn’t really shared in these comments, huh?

13. Seraphine Khorana Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 2:08 am

    Nope R.T. but there’s room for everybody in the pool anyway. Hugs.

14. Erik Tjallinks Says:
    January 19th, 2008 at 4:30 am

    It’s all about money and politics. In Europe it’s Norway that has the reputation to keep their hands free to satisfy fishermens’ income and state resources, (see http://whales.org/news/norway-4-06.asp). Now the Japanese have caught members of Greenpeace at one of their whale hunting ships, who came to deliver a protest letter at the ship in the Arctic Ocean. They were “pirates” because they touched their ship. It makes me angry.

15. gary Says:
    January 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Yeah and those 900 research whales make a hell of a lot of sushi!

    You´re right Seralocke! It´s me and you and all of us. And we all better pull together or find our little corners to ride things out.

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