@phildoran: "TV One showed a horrible film of Japs killing dolphins, and just afterwards 
the bombing of Hiroshima.
Lucky coincidence? "
    @tarla: "<quote>
I didn't notice the segue, but killing dophins like that is just awful. 
Hell, I don't even cut my plants down in front of each other."
    @btlbarryl: "On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 00:38:08 +1300, "Geopelia" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
Probably not, it's all about perspective.  We kill cows without a
thought, much to the horror of millions that have an alternative
belief system.  
Why is a sub-species of the human race so arrogant as to preach what
another sub-species may do? Or, in what master law book of the
universe does it say that killing orange roughy, sheep, pigs, cows,
goats, and cute little Bambi is good, while killing dolphins, whales
and dogs is wicked ?"
    @buggeroff: "On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 06:34:48 +1300, TarlaStar <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
This is a joke, yeah?
Bill."
    @btlbarryl: "On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:28:50 GMT, <email_address> (-Newsman-)
wrote:
<quote>
So,  there's a food chain, we happen to be at the top. Do cats have
ethical debates about killing prey?  But, answer the real question.
In what master law book............................?"
    @phildoran: "news:fgf29m$h11$<email_address>
<quote>
By putting to two news items together, perhaps some of the hate might have 
been defused. After all, we've got to live in the same world now.
Does anyone understand what I'm trying to say? Maybe it's just a generation 
thing.
Geopelia"
    @poo: "Japan is not the only place this is done.
<url>
Then you get bizzare stories of Japanese saving beached whales.
<url>
I heard a Japanese restaurant in Auckland has some dolphin meat, must ring
around and try some."
    @amungbean: ""Barry Lennox" <email_address> wrote in message 
news:<email_address>
<quote>
I think you will find that the issue is not that they kill dolphins but more 
in the manner in which they do so.
and yes we kill cows, pigs, sheep etc ... but nowadays the process is a lot 
less traumatic than earlier days.
IMHO I think seal clubbing is cruel, I have no issues with seals being 
killed and would certainly entertain say a bullet to the head ... because I 
find the clubbing method so distastful does not make me arrogant."
    @btlbarryl: "On Sat, 3 Nov 2007 14:54:06 +1300, "Mungbean" <email_address>
wrote:
<quote>
I don't think that is the case, it's just the killing of some species
that is morally offensive to some. 
I agree with you, if we need to kill an animal, then it should be done
as near instantly as possible. 
I still go out and dispatch the odd mouse or bird (with an air pistol)
that the cats are tormenting. 
And the next time that Fat Basil dumps 2 duckling carcasses on the
carpet in one night, I'll probably dispatch him."
    @ChristianKnight: "<quote>
Maybe a coincidence though Japan do not have a huge population here
and only their secret service department and small migrant number may
have noticed.
Dolphins supposably have the closest brain size to humans. And that
maybe a reason people feel a sympathy at there distress. 1945 was 62
years ago the people that hold radicule revenges through those years
may not have survived the building stresses. I am sure Japan realise
that history has dealt a bad hand to every nation . Tides change and
prosperity with that. Japan has a very high rating ecomony and their
industrial technologies and ability to pass simple tasks onto robots
is well worth mirroring while steering a wide birth from their crowded
extreme disciplinarian type society, that innovation is not cast away.
Christ's love"
    @tarla: "<quote>
I have all my plants in pots. I can move a pot away from the general 
garden before cutting it down. Taking the vegetables or fruits off it 
can be done in the general garden area, but killing a plant, means I 
remove it first."
    @tarla: "<quote>
No. Did you SEE the way they killed those animals? It was horrific... a 
red sea of terrified animals.
Someone needs to tell the fucking Japanese that."
    @btlbarryl: "On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:32:52 -0800, misanthropic_curmudgeon
<quote>
I know, there's of lot of fruit-loops that swear we are often visited
by aliens and/of advanced civilisations who no doubt would find some
of us a tasty bit of ass.
Luckily I don't accept that.
One of my fav bumper stickers:- 
"There's room for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed
spuds""
    @misanthropiccurmudgeon: "<quote>
I was refering to the context of man in the environment: in our cities
(with our technology) we may be at the top, but one on one with any
number of animals and the average human is food-looking-for-a-plate.
Hell, there are many a person who found out the hard, wrong and
painful way (although not painful for very long!) that man is not the
top of the food chain when they went surfing, put their foot into
their boot without checking it for creepy-crawlies first, picked a bad
place to sleep, walked under the tree with a sanke up it, pissed into
a river, or pissed off a nursing animal with sharp teeth and/or claws!
"It aint food unless it has eyes"
"I love animals - with a good pinot"
"Hunters - improving the animal gene pool by eating the dumb and the
unlucky""
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