Comments on: Don’t Eat Splashy

By: gary

gary — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:55:09 +0000

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

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

By: Erik Tjallinks

Erik Tjallinks — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 11:30:58 +0000

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.

By: Seraphine Khorana

Seraphine Khorana — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:30 +0000

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

By: R.T.

R.T. — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 05:37:27 +0000

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?

By: Bettina

Bettina — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:15:53 +0000

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.

By: Romeika

Romeika — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 00:34:24 +0000

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

By: lindsaylobe

lindsaylobe — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:59:27 +0000

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 donâ€™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 !! -

By: kimy

kimy — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:28:39 +0000

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

By: rags

rags — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:18:58 +0000

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.

By: WAT

WAT — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:50:07 +0000

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?!