Icy Gull
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- Jul 5, 2003
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Species have been heading that way annually, the rhino being a dinosaur among us.
Perhaps other African nations will take note? Perhaps conservation groups will raise some serious effort to counter poaching. The pathetic Japanese are a blight on the planet, promoting stupid ideas about shark fins, powdered rhino horn and such bullshits. They should go extinct before whales and rhino and elephant.
Do you know their government funded whaling while they begged for post tsunami charity from the World?
Poachers testicles cure cancer. Pass it on..
Killing whales is never fine - It is said that a single whale dying naturally in the seas can provide food for oceanic life for 100 years. Extracting such a significant biomass has serious implications apart from just for the whale itself.
Funnily enough, I have not seen a Rhino on my allotment yet this year ?
Went to kenya earlier this year and the poaching appears to be for mainly the chinese magic potion market which I might add is a load of baloney
I had an elephant in my fridge last week.
How could I tell ?
Footprints in the butter.[/QUOTE
I saw a guy on the Undergound tearing up newspaper into little pieces. I asked him what he was doing and he told me that he was doing it to keep the elephants away. "But there aren't any elephants down here" I said. "Yeah, works well doesn't it?" he replied.
Ethically we clearly wouldn't agree as I would never consider any animal to be merely a "resource"
However, logically, each individual whale weighs many tonnes - when naturally diseased it will feed millions of organisms from the very bottom of the oceanic food chain and up and for many years. This differs from mankind fishing the seas for smaller fish, as they already have a specific role in a food chain - compared to the carcases of whales which are the beginnings of many and over time will result in the support of millions of oceanic lifeforms from countless species - and that's just one whale. Multiply that by tens of thousands every year and there are serious implications to oceanic biological systems - all for the selfishness of one nation.
I think you'll find it's China, not Japan that is far more into the weird medicinal compounds.
And killing whales is fine if you kill the right kind.