same thing i was thinking danny! although i do eat meat. i still think it's unfair just to protest on dolphins. if you want to stop dolphin slaughter, stop killing cows first... how long have people been killing cows or other barn animals... -_-; geez
it quite hard to make a comment for this, but I agree with slvrkramer. Cows,pig and etc didnt protect like dolphin, I believe it because of they can reproduce easier than dolphin and can breed easily not like dolphin, but if i choose i will choose not to kill both, but I'm eating meat also, so cant comment much ...
Ok look, if your going to eat the dolphin. Have at. If your not, then cut it out (no pun intended). Seriously I eat meat, and I'm greatful for it. But what I don't condone is senseless killing of things when it is not a matter of survival.
They cry like they care but once they start eating their meat, they soon forget.
P.S. If we thought Cows were cute-r than Dolphins, this would be a completely different story.
Depends which cultural society you were brought up in. In the west we're so accustom to eating farm bred animals since children we tend to think of them as just food. Especially since most ppl just see the end product in the supermarket. More exotic animals such as dolphin seldom ever gaze a westerner plate, thus they're seen as more special or real than just a slab of meat. I believe in Japan though they enjoy dolphin as sushi. In China my relatives will eat almost any animal if cooked right. So I believe its more of a clash of cultural ideology and upbringing than anything. Those fishermen probably thought 1) This white girl must be one of those crazy americans 2) This white girl would probably look cute in a cheerleaders uniform.
Just cause a dolphine looks cuter than a bald eagle or a human... Just cause of looks that they want to save the dolphin sooo bad. They should listen to the song "How to save a life" i guess is stead of making their own song "How to save a life"
Hey Danny, do they even show Heroes in Japan? Probably would since they have a Japanese character and substory.
I want to know what the hell this Hayden girl is doing in Japan... Oh shit, Heroes spoiler?
I honestly could not care less about these dolphins. I'd much rather people focus on issues in human society than spend hours and millions of dollars trying to save a bunch of stupid animals. If you're so worried about the dolphins, set up new industries in these Japanese villages so these guys can make their livelihood some other way. Oh, and could the people doing the Sky News report have gotten a more stereotypical angry fisherman to chase the camera? And a bunch of beautiful blonde kids crying for 'the babies'. Too bad no one cares about other people as much as they do dolphins. Also, what does dolphin meat taste like? It sounds like something cruelly fun to try.
Re: How Dolphin Meat Tastes. Dolphin Meat tastes like broken dreams.
Bet it taste like chicken
If you have ever been in the presence of a dolphin you will see something beyond explination.. you will see burning intelligence in their eyes. A cows eyes are empty, devoid of that spark of intelligence. Its sad to see any animal die, regardless of the breed. Animals are innocent,and dont have humans capacity to lie. WE are the most dangerous, the most evil animal in the world. Not sharks, not lions, nothing even comes close. As beautiful as nature is, nature is death. All things in nature kill (I dare someone to argue that). Its survival of the fittest out there. I just dont agree with killing things that arent necessary. I think intelligence has a right to live.
If it tastes like broken dreams, why isn't more popular with us otaku? haw haw haw...
Oh, and the reason Hayden was in Japan was because her boyfriend is a vegetarian and aparently talked her into it.
DRAGUN: I agree with you 100%, but I think that if I we as Americans we raised on eating dolphin, we would really care about how smart they are, because we already have this preconseption of how they fit into our life, by giving us energy and what not. INSECTICE: I totally just pictured someone eating dolphin and crying at the same time. ROFL!
Wow, so many errors in what I just wrote. I wanted to say that we wouldn't care how smart they were. PROOF READING FTW!
Dolphins are intelligent, true, but they are also one of the few races beside humans who kill for entertainment, as a consequence. This includes the murder of baby dolphins by packs of young males. To consider dolphins more important than other animals due to intelligence, in my opinion, is an insult to other animals. I eat meat, but I also know what eating meat means. It is insane to label an animal species as "inferior" just because we eat them on a regular basis. In fact, I am inclined to consider a bias to dolphins as a type of racism.
This is like the Korean eating dog debacle again. Well i'm not sure, but are dolphins endangered? If not, and Japanese still eat those mercury filled things....its their own problem.
Racism? Well, I think Danny told us to leave that out. Besides, that's really grabbing for straws. I mean, if you consider dolphins intelligent species, you could in theory charge them with murder, incarcerate them, and demand they remove themselves from your nation's waters, as they enter illegally. I tend to think that laws, regardless of any statements about the rights of anything with free will, are limited to our own species. So if aliens come to earth, it isn't illegal to freak out and blow their brains out. If dolphins have free will... is it possible that a dolphin could have a human fetish? Someone should throw a cup nude into the tank at Sea World and see what happens.
It's not about how smart dolphins are. It's not about how cute dolphins are. It's not about how tasty dolphins are. It's about we can easily "mass produce" cows but not dolphins. When you became "goods", you only lives as long as you are valuable to the owners.
I personally don't see how saving the dolphins will save the world. Maybe miss Hayden should go stop homicidal murderers from killing children in the US than cry so dramatically for dolphins that, do harm and kill humans. Putting animals before our own human problems is a bit weird since in the end, animals won't really give a shit about our survival and well being.
It's more likely because cows are bred to provide milk and to be eaten.
...thats why im vegetarian...
白人の価値観の押し付けはいい加減ウンザリ。 この太地町という所はもう2000年以上前から鯨を取っている地域だ。イルカだって、勿論その頃から取っている。 日本人は取った鯨やイルカを肉を食い、骨を利用し、供養し、墓も作り、長い期間そうしてきたのに、つい数十年前まで鯨を脂の為だけに取ってた 白人達は、脂が必要なくなると掌返して鯨を取ってる日本人を非難しだした。 漁のやり方は残酷に見えるかもしれんが、これだって長年取ってきてこれがベストの取り方。でも取り方もこれから進化するだろうけどね。
What the hell, I didn't know people killed dolphins. What do dolphins need saving from.. they're just happy and leap into the occassional net/plastic can ring? I only thought the whale issue was big.. I can't help but be wary when Hayden flies all her Califorian friends over to Japan to save some cute animals.. and the fact it was covered by SKY and CELEB TV. Is she a PETA advocate? Because I can't stand MEAT is HOLOCAUST campaigns.. at least whales are endangered.
It depends on HOW they are killed. Some countries have laws to "make it quick" and as painless as possible. I haven't seen the videos (I've got the hi-res pics of that with Hayden in bikini vía 4chan, why bother?) but I suppose they didn't put the Dolphins "to sleep". Finally, the way you put it, seems like they don't kill cows in Japan. Do they give them instant death? How do you get kobe beef? (Btw, bullfighting is not allowed in the spanish region I come from, and I hate it.)
We have to eat -something-; if we kill less of something we'll just have to kill more of something else. It will stay that way until we can make synthetic equivalents with the same nutrition value and mineral structure. It sucks that we have to kill these things, but it's basically us or them. Vegetarianism isn't really a proper option as it is significantly lacking in protein, among other things, so it's not as healthy. That having been said; animal protein is known to give rise to various cancers. For a truly balanced diet you'd basically have to eat a whole bunch of almonds with every meal. Almonds are the only known protein with a high enough concentration to actually be able to reach a balanced protein level over the other minerals in it. There really is no 'ideal' diet--the closest ones to ideal require consumption of strange things that, if the diet was followed by the majority of the people on earth, would be no possible way to keep a large enough supply to fill the demand. I just ignore all the 'eat healthy' propaganda and eat whatever the heck I want. That actually tends to be one of the healthiest things you can do anyway, as the human body craves certain foods based on chemicals it needs that it recognizes a presence of in that particular food. When you are craving hamburgers you probably aren't actual craving hamburgers, but rather; you are craving protein and your mind associates hamburgers with protein first because of familiarity. Basically; try to eat a very wide variety of foods and your mind will better understand what it should and shouldn't be craving.
if its legal then i dont have a problem with it and in this case the slaughtering is completly legal but i think this just BS i mean there are millions of people dying around the world of war desease and famin why don't they protest about that
Drive up the CA-5 freeway and you'll see a slaughterhouse full of thousands of cows waiting to turn into somebody's steak or hamburger. It stinks so much there even when driving 100mph+ you swear your car can't avoid the stench. Poor cows even sleep on their own feces. Silly little ignorant celebrities and PETA lovers need to wake up and get out more often, instead of dwelling in their surburban homes riding around in their hybrid-SUVs.
Interesting - not sure this is too much of a big deal - I had raw horse last time I was in Japan and it was really good! Danny - could you please write more about politics or touchy subjects ? Why not?
i respect all cultures even though they don't conform with mine "do what the romans do"
We can raise cows in farms just to feed the humans. They don't face extinction. On the other hand, dolphins are a wild animals. We don't breed them for food. They can quickly become an endangered species if we don't protect them.
I think it's more because dolphins aren't domestically grown animals like cows and swine which are "farmed" for the very purpose of food. I know exotic dishes aren't "farmed" but consuming them at a large scale without doing much to replenish what was consumed is an entirely different (and stupid) thing to do. Are dolphins smarter? I'm not too sure with that. I tend to think a lot of scientists, cooped up too long in their labs and water tanks, will bite any progress they get to keep their budget even if it hardly means anything to everyone else. So until I see a dolphin beat a genius in chess - no they're not smarter than most animals.
i'm a vegetarian and i want to clarify something about some comments made below.. 1) vegetarianism is exactly opposite of what someone said to be as "significantly lacking in protein"..etc..The things that we vegetarians eat, if we cook and eat properly, surpasses the daily requirements for our body. 2) Yes, most of the animals that we eat nowadays are freakingly mass produced. They are fed with the best chemicals and given shots of "chemical X" into their body so that they grow in rates 10000 times faster than in the past. so, put it simply: YOU EAT THE CHEMICALS TOO. 3) the slaughtering process of animals are cruel. i've seen videos of it and it was terrible. something like those terrorists that behead hostages in front of the camera with blood spilling out and screams that go unheard. 4) the part whereby why ppl protest over killing of dolphins over killing of cows: a) cows are easily mass produced as mentioned by someone (sry) b) there's more use to cows than dolphins c) dolphins are hard to catch (there's other reason..which i dunno) why there's more and more vegetarians: 1) they realise that the amount of foood to get 1 healthy cow to be slaughtered and get around 1 kg of meat from it is enuff to feed tons of mouth from the dying ppl in rural areas. 2) Health conscious. some Athletes are vegetarians too. 3) save earth there's more to it..but...^^; that's all i know.
Personally i think its nonsense to think a dolphin deserves to live more then a cow, pig, chicken or whatever. To think of it i even think on the long term the way these animals are filled with chemicals every day living in a tight space being produced for slaughter isn't very nice and humane either. Why I'm not a vegetarian? I have been raised eating meat and I just cant miss it. I know its weak, but I'm grateful for the meat i get to eat while there are enough people in this world that don't get to eat at all. I also just love how these articles smash the dreams of 14 year old narutard girls that Japan isn't the perfect place indeed and that it's just a country with its own issues and problems. I'm sorry if I insulted anyone. Its not my intention.
some dead lot will life, its the order so i don't give much damn about killing animal, just make sure they still can reproduce and save from extinction what could 1 dolphin do anyway? killing a shark? 1 man could do nearly everything. major religious here: god destroy, god create, god deceive his creation to destroy something while he(/she) tell his creation to protect that something is there a god? or god create us, but we are independent?
Well : Ouam, Frost and Tiny Red Man summarize it pretty well...
Seeing myself, I too disagree in the slaughter of dolphins. As mammals of the ocean, they're considered kind and gentle plus some are considered an endangered species or functional extinct species. Aside from that, having a phobia/allergy towards a majority of seafoods (except seaweed) I don't think I'm in a position to say much either.
Well it's the order of things in the food chain, as long as the dolphins don't become extinct there's no problem for me
Biological reasoning should be enough: - Dolphins are mammals, no fishes, which have evolved by natural selection. In this sense dolphin slaughtering is similar to Chimpanzee hunting for getting food. - Cows, pigs and chicken are human driven species created after thousands of years of artificial selection for our own usage (food, fabric, etc....). The closer an animal is to the human species, genetically, the better we should treat it. No one cares to smash ants or spiders, but everybody feels it's kind of cruel to step on an ape's face or your dog genitals. Despite of this, people are quite contradictory because there are human slaughtering all over the place in the world and people and media don't care much more than when some dolphins or whales are killed. So these girls crying in these videos give an unproportional sadness to how HORRIBLE the world actually is. The same goes for the man who says "how can this happen in this time and age", he should be advised that this time and age is as horrible and bloody as any other in history as far as a world-wide global statistical behaviour is taken into account. So I think giving too much attention to some things and no care at all to others is just unproportional, incomplete and ignorant.
kukukuku, i do help in 'chopping' cows, chicken, goat and rabbits. So I don't mind if they wanna eat dolphin. Y not? dolphin also deserved to be eaten. Human do stand at the top of the chain except some of them got eaten by lion, tiger and snake. Do they sell kuma meat in japan? I think Japanese eat everything from the sea right? I also eat shark. Yep, shark fin. Lastly, the only thing that I cannot stand is human eating human. Now that is going to far in searching for meat. Like people said, "mmmm, taste like chicken"
hey...instead of protecting dolphins whose not even one race with humans why don't we protect our own kinds(human race as we know we all came from Adam which means the whole human race is like actually one BIG family) there still people starvin in africa, there are womens and children being killed in the middle east, HIV,ebola, nuclear threat,etc(I'm just mentioning the mainstream issues ^^; ). why not deal with them instead...after all, we are all humans
I agree with DRAGUN in Arizona, USA. Intelligence has the right to live. Intelligence is what alows a life-form to understand that it has freedom of choice. Granted, it's not gonna make a choice like "I want a $25,000 car," or "I want a mocha latte". These are petty human things, their's would be more like "I want to eat that fish," or "I want that dolphin to be my mate," or MORE IMPORTANTLY, " I WANT TO LIVE." That freedom of theirs is being taken away, on top of that their being murdered. Granted, survival of the fittest, but there is one thing that humans and other intelligent beings have that gives us a chance to redeam our selves from the evils that we have comitted, COMPASSION. Those kids had true copassion there, the fisher man on the other hand, had none. If they were near dolphins and not feel a dolphins inosence, or even worse, ignore it, then they should receive no mercy when justice is brought to them, for if they do not give compassion, then they should not recieve compassion. And call me a radical if you wish, but i think these murderers should be destroyed. the system in that government may be protecting them now, but like all things, it won't last forever.
Lol save the dolphins save the world!! make out with guys and get your daddy shot! aside from heroes' comment.. i would like to say.. if we start to farm dolphins than we have the write to eat it... but if they are wild life... than we are just breaking the food chain.
I have personally seen live chickens and fish being slaughtered in markets. It was quite horrifying watching huge headless fishes bouncing on the floor of the fish market。However, this doesn't affect me much now that I'm older...all because of a scene I once came across in a movie. An alien was killing Earth humans like flies and one of the humans (the protagonist)asked angrily why the alien could kill without any guilt. The alien simply laughed off, "You humans kill goats, cows, pigs for food. To me, everyone of you are just lower lifeforms, nothing more than those animals you have killed." This changed my thinking about all this movement of stopping the killing of certain animals...yes, they should be protected from cruelty, but not to the extent of overlooking the needs of humans.
I've got a question for the people who use "intelligence" as an 'excuse' to not hunt dolphins down. Are chickens, cows, pigs, etc not sentient beings too? Frankly, a dolphin could be potentially more 'intellgient' than the average human being. Does it mean then, that they can kill us for food?
All the people supporting the dolphins make it sound like these Japanese fishermen had nothing better to do one day and decided to kill a bunch of dolphins. The problem with these kinds of people and those surfers is that the think that stopping the killing at the abbattoir(sp?) is going to solve the problem. Don't lobby to have dolphin hunting ban, lobby to have dolphin meat banned. And before you do that, give those fishermen (hell, the entire *fishing* village) something else to make money from. Also, I still haven't found someone who can tell me what dolphin tastes like. I might import some canned dolphin and have some on crackers. I bet it tastes like whale.
This is what I think also I like when danny doesnt touch on these subjects. 1. So are the fishermen killing them because.. A. For food. B. The dolphins are eating a lot of their catch in their fishing grounds. Sorry if they said something in the videos i didnt have time to watch them due to it being 10 minutes before school. So if they are killing them for food thats fine. If they are killing them because they destroying the fishermen fishing grounds thats fine. I say this because they lose money because of that and if you need to feed a family or even themselves i sure you would do it. Also I hate how we call a celeb a hero because they did something like this. A hero is someone who either does something more heroic like fighting in a war and dieing. Not saving an animal. Once again I like when danny doesnt touch on these subjects.
I don't support killing dolphins for food, mainly because they are endangered animals. If we continue to kill them, they will be extinct and our children and grandchildren can only see them in the museum. I don't discriminate between the lives of cows or chicken or dolphins. I believe there's an intrinsic value to the lives of every living thing in this world, no matter how small they are. But cows, chicken and other livestocks are not facing the danger of extinction. As a matter in fact, their number grows as the demand for them increases. Dolphins on the other hand, continue to be hunted down even when their population shrinks day by day. With global warming getting worse now (courtesy of us human beings of course), animals in the wild must be protected at all cost because their living environment is becoming harder and harsher. In a way, I believe we owe it to them: we destroy their homes for our own benefits, we must take good care of them as compensation. Anyway, we call ourselves the most intelligent beings on this world right? Then why do we need to be like our ancestors during the Stone Age hunting for food in the wild, when we already have plenty in our farms?
The Japanese fisherman DUN hunt doplhin for food, they murdered them cos they said the dolphins compete for the fishes. If u search the past reports and videos, you might be lucky enough to digout old footage which the fishermen round out the dolphins, club them to death and then just threw them away. Not that I really give a damn if one day the world has no more dolphins, just that those vivid dolphins killing vids/images which I seen when I was young have a rather lasting impression.
