Australians: Wouldn't you also be pissed if a certain cow-worshipping ethnic group branded you as savage?
Say for example, there is an ethnic group that loves cows, keeps them as pets, and thinks that killing them is heartless and savage. They therefore start rioting and sticking banners up, protesting against Australians to stop their mass slaughter of cows. Some of them join organizations dedicated to saving the cows, and they invade farms or throw butyric acid at the farmers. They soon gather up to sign an anti-cow slaughter petition alongside an emblem made by the Australian flag with a blood-covered person lying on it. They start branding Australians as heartless and savage for killing ‘such beautiful creatures’ and can’t believe that the Australians eat them.
This is exactly how the Japanese see you guys protesting against our whaling practices.
Wouldn’t you be pissed if you were in that situation?
(I’ve never eaten whales.)
Skidoo – The whale farms correspond to the Japanese whaling ships.
Grumples – Some people are emotional and they start attacking me personally as a Japanese that I eat whales.
Skidoo – I meant the cow farms lol
6 Responses
cc_of_0z
14 Sep 2011
rob w 3.0
14 Sep 2011
true and same with all those babies who chomp down pigs, chickens, sheep etc but get all pissy and protest cos the french eat horse or cos some Asian countries love cat and dog for dinner.
its just meat their is no difference between eating a lamb or a cat other than some weird taboo your culture has made up
Skidoo
14 Sep 2011
Last I heard cows weren’t endangered or intelligent.
Where are the whale farms in your scenario?
Grumples
14 Sep 2011
I have to ask, why did you feel it necessary to include the "i’ve never eaten whales" comment??
scrooge
14 Sep 2011
you bet ye.
Walter B
14 Sep 2011
Hindus believe in Cows as sacred animals, so you may offend them by your comments.
As some others have stated, the French etc eat Horses. Chinese and Vietnamese eat dogs. Others like cats. They are all meat and although some feel a bit queasy about eating a pet, others do not. None of them are endangered species.
Whales are an endangered species, therefore the international ban on killing them.
Not if the cows were highly endangered and/or part of their tourist cow spotting program. We also wouldn’t invade another countries territory in order to hunt down said cows (like Japan regularly does within Australian Territorial waters).
Consider also that there is a world wide ban on cow hunting. When this ethnic group starts hunting cows for "scientific research" and then slaughters them in their thousands with little or no research papers actually published on the topic – it kind of makes a mockery of the World Cow Hunting Commission. I for one can’t wait until all the countries of the Oceania region make the entire south pacific a world heritage bovine park so that the heinous act of hunting down the extremely endangered brown spotted heiffer can stop immediately.
In the mean time – onya Cowpeace – keep them hunters off the cow pad scents.
Post Edit:
Australians actually do have a real world scenario that pretty closely matches the one you are suggesting (hypothetically). You would be surprised how many green organisations think that Australia’s Kangaroo population is endangered. Every now and then they get some hard up for cash celebrity to denounce Australia for the annual Roo cullings. Little do they realise that there are so many Kangaroos in Australia (more roos than sheep – like over 20 million) that if their numbers were not controlled they would destroy what food sources they do have and starve themselves out on a massive scale. Travelling on country highways in Australia is a real eye opener. At dawn and dusk there are so many of them that they travel in huge herds. There are so many of them that farmers consider them vermin.
Perhaps if the Whale population had these kinds of numbers then the Japanese could argue a valid point for hunting to resume. With greenhouse emissions and the perilous state of the environment (including the state of the Oceans) worldwide we may already be beyond the point of no return and may have to keep the Whale ban permanently. Time will tell.
People would have a much better opinion of the Japanese Whaling point of view if they didn’t skulk around hiding behind technical loopholes and behaving like mission impossible agents in order to meet their requirements. Had they done everything openly and in the spirit of a sustainable Whaling industry then perhaps they wouldn’t get the worldwide condemnation that they do.
Keep in mind too that in some parts of the world the same situation is happening with over fishing of traditional fishing grounds. We may yet see bans not just on Whales but on taking anything from the ocean in the interests of saving all of these kinds of industries from total oblivion. The world has got to get past this idea that the Earth has unlimited resources. If we don’t then future Japanese may find it is not just the Whales that are missing from the menu but everything else as well.