Theos-Talk Archives (February 2008 Message tt00045)

Your analogy of cow is a very appropriate one. How about the analogy of
killing and eating Horses. They are a delicacy in some parts of the world.

mkr


On 2/8/08, Cass Silva <silva_cass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   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 <semockr%40hotmail.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 <theos-talk%40yahoogroups.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><theos-talk%40yahoogroups.com>,
> > > "nhcareyta" <nhcareyta@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=28&ContentID=57621
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
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