We have just had a major pilot whale stranding in the north of
New Zealand Many locals were out there busting their gut in mid winter
in truly awful conditions trying to save them and only managed to save about 50%
It does make you wonder about human morality and how it can be diametrically
opposed from one area to another and even from one species to another

saltiest1 said...

so whats the difference between dolphin / whale & cow? if they could be farmed id say go for it. tastes ok to me.

intelligence

cows are actually used for their meat rather than to prop up dead traditions (Japan)

cows are actually farmed... dolphins aren't. Dolphins are negatively farmed - we take resources from them by overfishing

dolphins can do jumps

ive got a few pets here and ive come to learn that they all are able to be trained in some way. even the rabbit is toilet trained. the fish know when its food time, chooks come when called so obviously they are not totally stupid (cats are not stupid, just overly arrogant)
just saying that i reckon that if they could be farmed, take away all the emotional attachment, marine mamals might be good for tucker.

I've always wondered what swan would tastes like, they look like they have a lot more meat on them than ducks. Anyone eaten a swan, any recipes you'd like to share?

Maoris and other pacific islanders were quite partial to humans too
Apparently Europeans werent so good though---- too salty

Hiko said...

Maoris and other pacific islanders were quite partial to humans too
Apparently Europeans werent so good though---- too salty

taste like chicken.

doesn't it depend how it is used...

It isn't humane to kill animals if you don't eat them. I understand that whale meat isn't really eaten in japan - they try to give it to school kids to give them a taste for it, and it is used in pet food.

Also, it is against international law and the only way that they justify it is by claiming it is for scientific research..

Happy to be corrected by someone who uses words on the page rather than a seven minute youtube clip.

well thats not far from the truth...

for chickens and pigs atleast.

i could use words on the page to satisfy ginger pomp intelectual ego,

but its probably more effective to show a peta youtube clip




Mark Twain was correct---humans are the lowest form of animal life on this planet.

In nature, pigs live for 15 years, but pigs on factory farms are sent to slaughter after just six months of life.23,24 To get the terrified pigs onto the transport trucks bound for the slaughterhouse, workers may beat them on their sensitive noses and backs or stick electric prods in their rectums. Crammed into 18-wheelers, pigs struggle to get air and are usually given no food or water for the entire journey (often hundreds of miles). A former pig transporter told PETA that pigs are "packed in so tight, their guts actually pop out their butts—a little softball of guts actually comes out."25 Pigs suffer from temperature extremes and are forced to inhale ammonia fumes and diesel exhaust.

According to a 2006 industry report, more than 1 million pigs die each year from the horrors of transport alone.26 Another industry report notes that, in some transport loads, as many as 10 percent of pigs are "downers," animals who are so ill or injured that they are unable to stand and walk on their own.27 Downer pigs have no protection from the most unthinkable cruelty: These sick and injured pigs will be kicked, struck with electric prods, and finally dragged off the trucks to their deaths.




Individualized veterinary care is considered too expensive, so sick and injured pigs are left to die or are killed.

Pigs are transported for hundreds of miles through all weather extremes to the slaughterhouse. One worker reports: "In the wintertime there are always hogs stuck to the sides and floors of the trucks. They [slaughterhouse workers] go in there with wires or knives and just cut or pry the hogs loose. The skin pulls right off. These hogs were alive when we did this."In her renowned book, Slaughterhouse, Gail Eisnitz writes: "When hogs arrive frozen at slaughterhouses—which is a common occurrence—their protections under the Humane Slaughter Act are mysteriously waived. Since they are of no value for human consumption, antemortem inspectors neither examine them nor make a decision as to their disposition. Nor are they provided shelter or promptly stunned. Instead they are left to fend for themselves until they die."

You get no arguments from me. I spent a lot of time in an abbattoir on the Murray.

If people woke up to the state of their food and this insane centralisation were exposed for what it is animals for the plate would be given the type of care they were given when they were valuable. The argument given by the organic farmer on the Food Inc movie gave a classic example of what our famers are capable of.

Next time you buy an uncooked chook in the supermarket from any of the big producers have a look at how all the exposed red meat has been bleached white by chlorine.

These things we eat are walking bacteria factories.

They do not live long enough to die because die they surely would if their life span were not so short.

Cattle registered increased heart rates on trucks approaching the Wodonga Abattoir simultaneously at distances varying by wind direction.

Often those cattle would wait up to three days before slaughter.

Not good Jan!

Whaling brought civilisation to the rest of the world, especially Australia/New Zealand.

At least that's what Herman Melville says.

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