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Offline Triton28

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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #60 on: May 16, 2013, 07:04:25 PM »
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #61 on: May 16, 2013, 07:06:19 PM »
We import most of our food. I.e. we trade it from someone else. Our fisheries is our only major source of food. I don't know why you think fishing and whaling is not sustainable Gyrene, but we have lived off the sea since people first settled here in biblical times.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #62 on: May 16, 2013, 07:11:51 PM »
We import most of our food. I.e. we trade it from someone else. Our fisheries is our only major source of food. I don't know why you think fishing and whaling is not sustainable Gyrene, but we have lived off the sea since people first settled here in biblical times.
well in biblical times there weren't several million of you to sustain and the people didn't fish from floating factories. something has got to give...and inevitably humans will overlook the long term consequences like we have throughout history.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #63 on: May 16, 2013, 07:14:47 PM »
Not here. We only do sustainable harvesting.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #64 on: May 16, 2013, 07:19:32 PM »
just out of curiosity, how much does a half kilo of whale meat cost versus say cow, or goat or sheep?
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #65 on: May 16, 2013, 07:22:56 PM »
Cheaper than cow or sheep, but more expensive than chicken. It depends; prices fluctuates a lot.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #66 on: May 16, 2013, 07:29:13 PM »
A few weeks ago there was a sale at the local supermarket and my buddy Christian filled his freezer. Now he uses whale meat for just about everything, and started a video series about it on youtube.   :lol

Title is "Christian has too much whale beef": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdL5fgGK_v0
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #67 on: May 16, 2013, 07:35:11 PM »
a freezer full?  :O  lol, well, he will enjoy a lot of great dishes that include whale meat then.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #68 on: May 16, 2013, 07:36:27 PM »
Yes, and not much else for a while, lol.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #69 on: May 16, 2013, 07:39:10 PM »
Coombz is so cute when he trolls.    :)

I know right?

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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #70 on: May 16, 2013, 07:43:33 PM »
During WWII and postwar rationing the brits had to eat plenty of whalemeat, and from what my grandparents and great aunts/uncles told me I wouldnt ever want to even try it.

Personally I look at whales like any other animal - if theres a genuine need, and the animal is killed quickly and with respect, and the harvesting doesnt have a lasting impact on the sustainable population of the species I dont have a problem with it.

The closer a species is to our own, the more instinctively repulsed I become by the idea, but if I was starving and there was no other food source I would have no hesitation eating primates. If I had to I'd eat the other, other white meat too.


As for the Japanese whaling industry, I understand that there is hardly any domestic demand and large amounts of the harvest are ultimately dumped. They appear to be fishing up to their quotas on some traditional/nationalistic principle that I cant work out, rather than fulfilling demand.


edit: one more point - whales are wild animals, so have a considerably higher quality of life than almost every farmed animal.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #71 on: May 16, 2013, 07:45:32 PM »
I have an idea!!!! Give Africa 1 whaling ship and presto! Hunger ended!!!!!
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #72 on: May 16, 2013, 07:51:05 PM »
I don't know what whale meat your grandparents ate, but the meat we get around here is excellent. It tastes kinda like a cross between pork and beef with a fine texture, and it's oily/fatty like pork. It can be used for just about any dish where you would use beef, and it's healthier.
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #73 on: May 16, 2013, 07:54:42 PM »
Here's a North-American cooking a whale steak: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVIG7BJ0UQQ
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Re: Commercial whaling: For/Against/Indifferent?
« Reply #74 on: May 16, 2013, 08:12:07 PM »
I have no idea what species it was but it was universally hated, but eaten because it was at least protein, and available.
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