Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00037)

One thing the video shows is evidence that the Japanese are lying about their reasons for whaling as being research based.  Someone should ask them what exactly they are researching.  They will argue that eating whale is no different from eating cow, and they have a valid point.  I guess the global community can now put pressure on them to limit the kills by producing what results have come out of their research.  The only way to stop this action is to shame the Japanese by showing that this act is as barbaric as a savage eating the heart of a lion to transfer its strength to the eater.
   
  Cass

Richard Semock <semockr@hotmail.com> wrote:
          What if anything can be done? The US govt appealed to the Jap govt 
thru diplomatic channels individually and in concert with other 
govts. Obviously talking and imploring the Japs to stop the killing 
has had little or no effect. What else is there to be done then when 
preaching, imploring, and diplomacy doesnt work. Let the whales be 
killed off because its their destiny, right? WWHPBD (What Would HPB 
Do).

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, MKR <mkr777@...> wrote:
>
> BBC News today showed clips from the video made by Aussie Govt ships
> tracking the Japanese whaling ships hunting and killing mother and 
baby
> whales under the euphemism of research. In today's world cruelty is 
hidden
> under nice sounding words and those who can see these pictures can 
judge for
> themselves. Western world call themselves civilized and when you 
see these
> pictures one wonders if the aborigines living in remote areas are 
more
> civilized -- they do not resort to mass cruelty and killing and 
destruction
> (all one needs to see what is happening in Iraq and Afghanistan) 
and self
> inflicted wounds -- physical and mental -- the maimed and killed 
young men
> and women coming from war front.
> 
> mkr
> 
> On 2/7/08, nhcareyta <nhcareyta@...> wrote:
> >
> > A recent blog contribution to this issue from one A. Viirlaid.
> >
> > "I think the whale hunt is cruel, hypocritical, and not worthy of
> > humans.
> > We need to protect and serve life.
> > Otherwise we lose our primary reason for living.
> > I wrote a poem about the whaling last year and it has now 
happened.
> > A mother whale and her calf are gone from our midst.
> > Please protect all of our friends in the oceans.
> >
> > Lament of Mother Whale
> >
> > I cry for our shared grace
> > I cry for your human family
> > I cry for your whaler's family
> > I cry for my family
> > I cry for me
> >
> > With your warm hand you could stroke my skin like so many of your
> > family have chosen to do
> > You would feel my warmth and gratitude
> >
> > Why do you touch me only with your cold harpoon as you thrust it 
into
> > my flesh?
> > I thought after so much killing that we would both crave harmony
> >
> > That we had learned that we both feel and love
> > That we both treasure life
> > That we revere our comrades
> > That we embrace our children
> >
> > That we share the same blood of our ancestors
> > That our hearts both beat the rhyme of life
> >
> > How my child will cling to me as you haul my dying carcass out of 
the
> > sea
> > How she will cry
> > Until you kill her too."
> >
> > http://blogs.thewest.com.au/news/news-blog-should-we-intervene-to-
> > stop-this-slaughter/
> >
> > --- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@> wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=57621
> > >
> >
> > 
> >
> 
> 
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