Is Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Really for Food and cruel?

[galvatron]

Is Japan's Dolphin Slaughter Really for Food?




It's Friday in Taiji and another pod of dolphins has been driven into the killing cove. It was just last weekend that the world watched in shock as over 200 dolphins awaited their fate there. Representatives from marine parks and swim-with-dolphins programs selected 52 dolphins for display, the first being an albino calf, estimated to be worth half a million dollars. After four awful days, on Tuesday morning, the killing began. Forty-one dolphins were butchered, their family members bathed in their blood. Then those deemed neither pretty enough for the entertainment industry nor weighty enough to be included in the quota for meat were driven back to sea. Many, especially the young who had lost their guardians, were not expected to survive the trauma.
The slaughter season continues until early March.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-...b_4656345.html


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2014/01/22/10/28/mother-dolphin-commits-suicide-when-calf-captured

What do you think,shall Japan stop the dolphin slaughter ?

[charbydis]

That is horrible treatment of wildlife. Though it is killing for food, I disagree with the killing method. Can they not think of a more humane way to kill the dolphins? It happened with the whale hunting as well. They captured a young calf and stabbed it multiple harpoons and dragged it for hours across the ocean so its distress call would attract pods to come to its aid. Then they killed the whole pod. I am against it.

[Trien Chieu]

What do you think,shall Japan stop the dolphin slaughter?

It's up to the Japanese people to decide whether they want to change. If it's part of the Japanese culture/tradition then they have every right to embrace it and it's none of other people business. While I don't support such action but it's wrong to demand cultural genocide.

[pannonian]

It's up to the Japanese people to decide whether they want to change. If it's part of the Japanese culture/tradition then they have every right to embrace it and it's none of other people business. While I don't support such action but it's wrong to demand cultural genocide.

You love that phrase "cultural genocide". Sometimes change is good. It used to be the custom in some parts of India to burn widows at their husband's funerals. When a British governor caught wind of this, he banned the practice. When male chauvinists protested that it was their custom, the governor agreed to lift the ban, on condition that a gallows was erected next to the funeral pyre, to hang anyone acting to burn the woman. He explained, "It is the custom in India to burn widows on the funeral pyre, and this he will allow. It is the custom in Britain to hang people who kill innocent women, and this he will enforce." No one took him up on the offer, and the practice died out. Today this enforced cultural change is considered by Indians to be an undisputably good thing that the British did. But to you it probably stinks of "cultural genocide".

[Trien Chieu]

You love that phrase "cultural genocide". Sometimes change is good. It used to be the custom in some parts of India to burn widows at their husband's funerals. When a British governor caught wind of this, he banned the practice. When male chauvinists protested that it was their custom, the governor agreed to lift the ban, on condition that a gallows was erected next to the funeral pyre, to hang anyone acting to burn the woman. He explained, "It is the custom in India to burn widows on the funeral pyre, and this he will allow. It is the custom in Britain to hang people who kill innocent women, and this he will enforce." No one took him up on the offer, and the practice died out. Today this enforced cultural change is considered by Indians to be an undisputably good thing that the British did. But to you it probably stinks of "cultural genocide".

While I acknowledge the British had good intention but their actions interfere with Indian culture. The British should advocate for change instead of forcing their belief into others. The Indians should be the ones to decide whether they want to change or not.