When it comes to things like this the Japs are a real bunch of F#ckers.

Never been to the abators then?

Dawn Patrol said...

Its pathetic what we do to stop this. There was a show on 60mins about 2years ago,and i was literally in tears. They fishermen pull up the sharks, get a machette, off go the fins, back in go the sharks, to starve to death.
Although many of us fear them with our water use. They truely are amazing animals. They have been around longer than the dinosaurs, live in all of our oceans, white pointers have been spotted over 1km deep (that is an effing long way). and are just a super animal. perfect at what they are ment to do. eat.
For such a magnificent creature to die (any creature) in this way is disgusting.
At one point one of our navy frigates pull up along side one of the indo's ****heap boats, with it 50cal gun on the front. The fisherman pull out machettes on sticks, and hang the over their boat. WTF. Our guys fired *warning* (****ter) shots. And left because of the danger. Blow the bastards out of the water. Noone will know, noone will care, . It could just be another ship missing at sea. And its what the pricks deserve.
We think we are scared of sharks, yet we kill *MILLIONS* a year, yet we only lose a handful of people to sharks.
Hang the lot of em.

i saw the same 60 mins show, it was too cruel, the gov needs to step in and do something as it is just not on

DL said...

Dawn Patrol said...

Its pathetic what we do to stop this...

Sharks are not Dolphins
Indonesians are not Japanese

i know?

Gives me the ****s also - the Japanese - or at least a certain element of japanese society dont seem to respect dolphins or whales. The way they butcher and hack, in mass slaughter of hundreds of dolphins is an international disgrace - but it doesnt seem to worry them too much. As is their scientific? research into whales - they kill them and study them. Thats why you can buy whale meat in certain japanese restaurants. They found a nice little loop hole in international law that says its OK to kill X amount of whales for research. Good oxymoron that one - Japanese research into whales - no known survivors/ and they taste great as sushi!!

If more countries made it illegal for them to hunt these creatures in their waters than at least that is a start. There is not enough Greenpeace boats to chase after all of the whaling/fishing/research boats that the Japanese have all over the world. It is unfortunate and a real big loss to the oceans.

I like looking at the lambs jammed in the trucks in the 40 degree heat stuck on the Kwinana Freeway! All ready for a 5000km journey.

thats just it. They're not killing them to eat. They kill the dolphins because they're competingfor the fish. The shark killing guys take the fin and release the mutilated shark. Kill it and eat it , thats just fine. It aint no abittior mate.

Thankyou member Grinch. I can see by your portly avatar that your honourable self is not averse to the occasional sausage or two...

definately food for thought

The difference is is that the sheep and cows are breed to be eaten. From the minute they were born it was going to be no other way. And you dont have to eat cruelly kept chicken etc. You can buy free ranged stuff.
The dolphins and whales and sharks however are not breed for being eaten. It was not ment to be that way. It is effected their natural population in a very bad way.
And i feel the same for fish as well. Sure they breed them in some parts of the world, but most of the big fish are taken out and are not replaced (they are also bad for you, as mercury levels and other stuff builds up in the animals higher up the food chain because of our input to the ocean). If you've ever watched deadliest catch you will see how much is taken out. Shed loads.

I worked for a time as an apprentice butcher in the late 70s as a lad. The shop was getting a make over so I had to go work in the owners very own abbatior for a coupe of days. He owned several shops in the Adelaide hills area and killed his own meat to supply his business.
The hunchback who worked full time in the slaughter house was quite humane with the animals, and he used to give them a little chat and a pat before he ended their days.
The worst thing was holding the wheelbarrow under the hoisted carcass while the hunchback scooped the 60 odd Kgs of slippery bits into it in a big rush. Near knocked me over the first time. He then would say "right, hehehe (snifff) get the kidneys, liver and heart out of that lot".
I'm not a butcher today, and only worked about another two weeks at the shop. Just found it hard to get the smell from my skin and the image of those animals eyes from my head. Still eat meat but only after a period of vegies post butcher days.
My point is: lifes a bitch. The food chain is a natural thing, and we're part of it. If you don't like whats happening do something positive. Write a letter to the Japs, by a boat and drive it under a whaling vessel, start a movement.
I spent some time in Japan in 2004 and loved the place, the people and their culture.

Couldn't come at the Whale and horse steaks on offer in the resturants though.

On that theme NotWal, I once knew a girl who wouldn't eat anything that had a face. *waits for the inevitable sexual innuendo* She thought that if it had a face, she could feel empathy towards it.

So rather than getting caught up in the arguments that vegetarians often get caught up in (why do you eat eggs and not chicken? aren't eggs just really young chickens? if you are against killing animals, why do you eat vegetables that were carried by trucks that killed millions of insects on the way to the supermarket? etc...), she could just say that if it has a face, she will not eat it.

Son of Steptoe: Nice job Did you find that you started noticing that the meat you cooked at home smelt the same as the dying animal? Took me a bit to get over that.

Easy answer to all this is vote Labor.

Peter Garrett will put a stop to greenhouse emissions, mining, whaling (any fishing), people being nasty to aborigines, meat, and any artist producing music in which each song sounds different to the others.

If vego's are against eating leaving stuff, why do they eat plants?
I thought about this the other day (yes nothing better to do) , and plants were once alive also. They breathe and eat and drink. Just because they dont prance around some paddock all day. Think of the conditions the poor plants live in. Their entire life they are packed together, in rows 30cm apart. They are then torn out of the ground without a care, and left to die slowly.
I love meat so much, that if it was between having no meat and the animals not living nicely, i would chose the meat. They are only packed up for the last leg of the journey arent they? And if you make an effort to purchase meat that got to walk around nicely you could feel better.
I bet the animals die quicker than in the african dessert, when a pack of hyinas are eating their back as it is still alive, and looking around, crying for help. It the food chain, and we happen to be pretty much at the good end of it.