Comments on: “Is it just plain 'wrong' to kill whales?” http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/ Just another Blue Ocean Sites site Sat, 12 May 2012 08:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 By: Betsy Walker Hasegawa, Japan http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1926 Betsy Walker Hasegawa, Japan Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:32:01 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1926 So, Carl, in biggest food problem, when people and animal have eye on same food, if one or t'other don't/won't/can't share, one or t'other gotta back off, get pushed off, or worse off, isn't that so? Not exactly dog eat dog, but what some Japan fisher/whaler recently said: "Whales are cockroach of sea!" ?! "Maaaah, because of being a pest, taking what's ours, we've gotta make a living!" ... Humans ordinarily kill pests ... what's up, whales? ... as for dolphins in some coastal coves, science defines it as genocide. Is ignorance bliss? You certainly don't think so. Thank you Carl So, Carl, in biggest food problem, when people and animal have eye on same food, if one or t’other don’t/won’t/can’t share, one or t’other gotta back off, get pushed off, or worse off, isn’t that so? Not exactly dog eat dog, but what some Japan fisher/whaler recently said: “Whales are cockroach of sea!” ?! “Maaaah, because of being a pest, taking what’s ours, we’ve gotta make a living!” … Humans ordinarily kill pests … what’s up, whales? … as for dolphins in some coastal coves, science defines it as genocide. Is ignorance bliss? You certainly don’t think so. Thank you Carl

]]> By: carlsafina http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1925 carlsafina Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:41:37 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1925 My opinion is not meant to be so impartial that I have no opinion. I try to have the most reasonable opinion, considering the facts. Whales eating fish is not, in my opinion, a bad effect. It's what some of them eat. They can't eat tofu. The biggest food problem is caused by people eating most fish faster than they can breed, because there are so many of us. Approximately 90% of the great whales were destroyed, and most populations are still at a fraction of former numbers. By contrast, there are a lot of kangaroos of some species. That said, I certainly would not want to kill a kangaroo. I'd rather find ways to live and let live, not make more excuses for more killing. My opinion is not meant to be so impartial that I have no opinion. I try to have the most reasonable opinion, considering the facts. Whales eating fish is not, in my opinion, a bad effect. It’s what some of them eat. They can’t eat tofu. The biggest food problem is caused by people eating most fish faster than they can breed, because there are so many of us. Approximately 90% of the great whales were destroyed, and most populations are still at a fraction of former numbers. By contrast, there are a lot of kangaroos of some species. That said, I certainly would not want to kill a kangaroo. I’d rather find ways to live and let live, not make more excuses for more killing.

]]> By: quitter http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1924 quitter Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:40:47 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1924 first you compare the advantages and disadvantages of whaling, but soon you only states the disadvantages and thus this article is not impartial. You should have mentioned the bad effect of whales like some of them eating fish. BTW I dont understand why Australian love whales that much. Is it ethically right to kill kangaroos? first you compare the advantages and disadvantages of whaling, but soon you only states the disadvantages and thus this article is not impartial. You should have mentioned the bad effect of whales like some of them eating fish. BTW I dont understand why Australian love whales that much. Is it ethically right to kill kangaroos?

]]> By: tia http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1923 tia Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:52:47 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1923 its so wrong to kill whales. One day i'm going to make sure no one kills whales its so wrong to kill whales. One day i’m going to make sure no one kills whales

]]> By: carlsafina http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1922 carlsafina Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:45:04 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1922 thanks very much; very kind of you. I'm also putting some things up on Facebook and Twitter. thanks very much; very kind of you. I’m also putting some things up on Facebook and Twitter.

]]> By: Jacqueline Rodriguez http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1921 Jacqueline Rodriguez Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:30:34 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1921 Hi Carl, I wanted to "thank you" for the passion you have. And I really liked all your posting and look forward too reading your future posting. Jacque from Florida Hi Carl,

I wanted to “thank you” for the passion you have. And I really liked all your posting and look forward too reading your future posting.

Jacque from Florida

]]> By: florianschulz http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1920 florianschulz Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:08:28 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1920 Thank you for your abstract thoughts on a very emotional issue - at least for many of us. This year I observed and photographed a lot of different whale species in their environment: Grey Whales, Humpbacks, Fin, Blue Whales and Seigh Whales. On one particular event I looked directly into a whales eye and saw it watching me. In May I started photographing in the arctic and was there when one of the bowhead whales was hunted and caught by the Inupiat. It started a thought-process in me about the value of life. Why do I value a whale more then a caribou? Is it the size? Is it the numbers of individuals...... Is it its mind or the personal connection I had with whales this year? Can I judge the Inupiat whale hunt if I myself eat meat. I guess here is where I would go to the same line of thought asking about the sustainability. Thank you for your abstract thoughts on a very emotional issue – at least for many of us.
This year I observed and photographed a lot of different whale species in their environment: Grey Whales, Humpbacks, Fin, Blue Whales and Seigh Whales.
On one particular event I looked directly into a whales eye and saw it watching me.
In May I started photographing in the arctic and was there when one of the bowhead whales was hunted and caught by the Inupiat. It started a thought-process in me about the value of life. Why do I value a whale more then a caribou? Is it the size? Is it the numbers of individuals…… Is it its mind or the personal connection I had with whales this year? Can I judge the Inupiat whale hunt if I myself eat meat.
I guess here is where I would go to the same line of thought asking about the sustainability.

]]> By: Betsy Walker Hasegawa http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1918 Betsy Walker Hasegawa Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:33:55 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1918 Thank you Carl, your succinct words for whales. Nowadays when we consumers pass along fresh fish section of local retail markets (me, an American "housewife" long in Japan) we see whale marked simply "kojira" (whale). And there's mail-order "whale bacon." Evidently there's a measure of ignorance. Thanks for your ongoing writing, and could there come to be also a world-class movie on this one too? Sundance. Force it into Japan! Thank you Carl, your succinct words for whales. Nowadays when we consumers pass along fresh fish section of local retail markets (me, an American “housewife” long in Japan) we see whale marked simply “kojira” (whale). And there’s mail-order “whale bacon.” Evidently there’s a measure of ignorance. Thanks for your ongoing writing, and could there come to be also a world-class movie on this one too? Sundance. Force it into Japan!

]]> By: maria bowling http://carlsafina.org/2009/06/23/%e2%80%9cis-it-just-plain-wrong-to-kill-whales%e2%80%9d/#comment-1919 maria bowling Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:24:46 +0000 http://carlsafina.wordpress.com/?p=546#comment-1919 thank you thank you

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