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Killing Whales

How to stop Japan from killing whales and dolphins.

Japan has decided to kill whales and dolphins. They are not doing this because they are hungry and this is their only source of food, or because they depend on the sale of whale and dolphin products for the major share of their economy.

They are killing whales and dolphins as one would kill rats and cockroaches.

The world objects to this, but Japan doesn't care. Whales and dolphins don't mean anything to them. Public opinion is to be ignored.

There is only one way to reason with people who refuse to listen to rational argument; make it cost them. If everyone who objected to Japan killing whales and dolphins decided not to buy Japanese products, the effect would be far more powerful than a video.

Japan has choices. It doesn't have to kill whales and dolphins. We have choices, we don't have to buy anything made in Japan. The shelves are full of alternatives, yes maybe the alternative manufacturers are no saints, but we can deal with them later.

Right now, if you who are about to buy a Honda car or a Panasonic radio, or any of the millions of "Made In Japan" products, bought something else, it would not take six months for the killing to stop.

By buying Japanese products you support a nation which kills whales and dolphins. By buying Japanese products the blood of those whales and dolphins is on your hands.

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Comments (13)
#1 by Louie Jerome, Nov 19, 2007
Interesting article. Actually, you beat me to it...I am working on an article with a similar title!!! LOL
#2 by A. Fool, Nov 19, 2007
I was almost prompted to leave my bed at one am to write this,
but delayed until sun up. I feel very strongly about this topic
as I know you do.
#3 by Lucy Lockett, Nov 19, 2007
Excellent article, hit them in the pocket, they might listen!
#4 by Anonymous, Nov 19, 2007
I don't really think that just by not purchasing Japanese-made products will stop the killing of whales, or even help for that matter. The killing of whales is a disgusting act, but your plan of action doesn't really help.
#5 by A. Fool, Nov 20, 2007
It will work anonymous. Just imagine...
"Dear Honda, (or Panasonic or whatever)
Due to the fact that Japan continues to
hunt Whales I have decided not to purchase
a Honda (panasonic, whatever)."

If one thousand...that's all...even five
hundred sales are lost...don't you think
that Japan would respond?

What about...."I have decided to stop
eating sushi until you stop killing whales.."
and Japanese restaurants are now empty?

You have the power to hurt Japan in their
pocket.
#6 by Anon, Dec 12, 2007
Honda is not the one killing whales. You won't stop the Iraq war if you stop purchasing products made in the USA> it is the same deal.
And who cares - they are whales. We kill animals for food and fur all the time. Why such a big deal about whales?
Might as well stop reading Dostoevsky because some Russians killed dogs for food.
#7 by a fool, Dec 13, 2007
They are not killing whales for food.
They aren't Eskimos who depend on
this food source; they're doing it
for the same reason Buffalo Bill and
his clones shot buffalos, and almost
caused their extinction.

America recognised the danger of
killing buffalos and stopped so
today, there are still small herds.

If Japan can not be persuaded by the
same logic that worked over a hundred
years ago in America, then hitting them
in the pocket might be necessary.
#8 by pseudonym, Dec 17, 2007
Why is it okay to kill rats?

I have pet rats and they are very intelligent. Are you saying we should kill all ugly animals and save the pretty ones?

Have you seen a fatory farm recently? It's not like we have animal rights sorted here.
#9 by a fool, Dec 17, 2007
You may have very nice decent rats, but most of us get gangsta
rats who burglarise our homes, steal our food, and defecate on
our clothes.

The gangsta rats are, like gangsta people, the ones we set out
to capture and kill, or hire a cat cop to manage. It's not the
fact rats are ugly; they do have a kind of bucktoothed
cuteness; it is that the gangsta rats like the maraunding roaches
are the enemy of humans.

I agree with you, we have a lot of work ahead of us to protect
animals, and end the factory farms and puppy mills.

The whales aren't bothering anyone. They aren't polluting the
oceans, interferring in sea travel, and aren't a major food
source. The Japanese are killing whales and dolphins to kill
whales and dolphins.

#10 by Pseudonym, Dec 21, 2007
Fair play to you, gangsta rats may have been the funniest thing I've heard all day. And I work with young people!
#11 by a fool, Dec 22, 2007
I didn't want to make psuedonym feel bad; maybe there's
a limit to political correctness? I live in a rural
area and my gangsta rats are the size of small cats;
and it's me or them. I usually toss another glue
trap over them before I begin to inflict grievous
bodily harm.

My dogs are useless; you can see them in open mouth
shock..."You want me to pick up what with my mouth?"
or speed dialing the Vet; "Dr. Turner? Hi, it's me
Cricket, well, I'm not fine. That awful person who
lives here? Yeah, her. She wants me...I can bearly
choke out the words...to pick up a rat in my...my
mouth! Yes, that's puppy abuse isn't it?"
#12 by cuipidskate, Mar 25, 2008
stop buying and the killing will stop!!
useless in killing whales..
#13 by a fool, Mar 25, 2008
What has to happen is to confront the Japanese and say,
"Look, I will not buy a Toyota, a Panasonic, a Moto, or
any other product manufactured in Japan unless you stop
killing whales.

If only ten thousand of us did that...it would end.
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