What about the right of the wale? Wale are people too!

This time it is not about governing over country or culture it is about beeing for or against Mobidick.

Personaly I am for mobidick; and you?

As a cultural anthropologist, I have seen many moves lie this by people across the world, with very little idea on what is going on. But as long as it sounds good politically and make the people who are chanting for the cause feel good, there will always be people like this who ignore a more realistic problem and try to go “the easy way”.

As in the case with the whole global warming scare, whaling has been and continues to be misrepresented of the facts. While it is a fact that the number of many whales have decreased, many of the whales listed in the whaling ban are in fact experiencing an over population, causing a major increase of fish consumption, thus a major decrease in number of sardines as well as other fish.

Also, Japanese shipping lanes are having many occurrences of passenger ships hitting whales, and nearly sinking.

Whaling has been a cultural and economic market for many countries including Japan, Norway, Iceland, etc… Many people in these countries relied on this commerce for their livelihood, and were sent to the poor house to make a few rich people feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

I can’t seem to remember when people were screaming about the barbarity of eating a tuna sandwich, yet most people’s opposition about people whaling stem from their feeling that eating a whale is “barbaric”.

Now it all nice and good as long as you or your company/country isn’t affected economically by proposals like this, but I wonder what would happen if the shoe was on the other foot.

I think many people should really think about what the “real agenda” is, behind this video.

Just my Two Cents.

I have been always on the side of Moydick with my big torpedoes and machine guns!