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geoff, you've yet to provide any links to substantiate your position.
geoff, you've yet to provide any links to substantiate your position.
The end all be all is that although he is a diver and enjoys the wonders the oceans have to offer he has absolutely no care for the health or well being over it if it infers with his ability to have his whale soup.
Starting with your statement of less then 1,000 minke whales a year. This number is not correct its 1,000 minke whales collected by the Japanese each year in the Arctic area, not total. Whaling takes place in a number of locations around the world. The grand total take per year world wide is much higher. Korea and Norway also actively take minke whales. That count is also the reported totals not the actual, a killed whale and a taken whale are not the same thing. A whale which is killed but never collected is not included in that count.
Based on your logic If I decided I wanted to start eating people I could kill off 90,000,000 humans each year and although you may not be morally right it would still be sustainable.
Regarding the dumping of unusable whales I'm sure your video gathering resources on the internet extend past the IWC website. You seem to be a smart enough person that I dont need to waste time finding links for you.
You don't seem to get the part that killing an animal to determine if there is enough of them to kill for food and then turning that same animal into food makes absolutely no sense at all.
Actually you did, in post 169 (my bold).
OK, I can work with that statement. Do you accept that the best Southen Ocean minke whale population estimates are around 800,000 minke whales?
If so, do you think the quote of less than 1,000 minke whales a year has causes an imbalance? That is 0.13% of the population, in a species that lives 20 years or so. My view is this level is sustainable, regardless of whether you think it is morally correct or not.
azchipka:The end all be all is that although he is a diver and enjoys the wonders the oceans have to offer he has absolutely no care for the health or well being over it if it infers with his ability to have his whale soup.
So from your logic the killing off of 1/1000 of a percent of a population is fine? I can only assume that is ok by you since your cool with the killing off of .13% of a population.
Think really hard about where I'm going with this line of questioning before you answer.
I don't think I need to bother to refute this, eating whales and eating humans are not alike in my book.
If you want to compare killing and eating whales with killing and eating humans, then please do so. It's facile and I won't feel the need to respond further.