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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User Comments
Louie Jerome
On November 19, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Interesting article. Actually, you beat me to it…I am working on an article with a similar title!!! LOL
A. Fool
On November 19, 2007 at 2:56 pm
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.
Lucy Lockett
On November 19, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Excellent article, hit them in the pocket, they might listen!
Anonymous
On November 19, 2007 at 11:31 pm
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.
A. Fool
On November 20, 2007 at 10:55 am
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.
Anon
On December 12, 2007 at 10:57 am
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.
a fool
On December 13, 2007 at 9:29 am
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.
pseudonym
On December 17, 2007 at 9:56 am
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.
a fool
On December 17, 2007 at 1:59 pm
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.
Pseudonym
On December 21, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Fair play to you, gangsta rats may have been the funniest thing I’ve heard all day. And I work with young people!
a fool
On December 22, 2007 at 12:17 pm
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?”
cuipidskate
On March 25, 2008 at 11:46 am
stop buying and the killing will stop!!
useless in killing whales..
a fool
On March 25, 2008 at 5:17 pm
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.
Nameles
On November 10, 2008 at 12:53 pm
This page suck!!
no jk its grate thanks 4 showing this to me
BYE!!0.0
uuu
On November 12, 2008 at 6:39 pm
How come do Western people have a right to eliminate Japanese culture which is eating whales ?
You don’t have to agree with it, but you should understand the cultural difference.
a fool
On November 12, 2008 at 8:58 pm
It is unnecessary, uuu. There is a world wide ban, the Japanese
aren’t starving, it is like shooting tigers.
uuu
On November 13, 2008 at 12:25 am
who can decide which culture is necessary or unnecessary?
Attitudes toward animals are a part of national cultures. No nations or people should try to impose their attitudes on others.
uuu
On November 13, 2008 at 10:12 am
No nation or people have a right to demand I buy
their products. Hence if Japan wants to kill whales,
I and everyone who agrees with me ceases to purchase
Japanese products.
Obviously it isn’t worth it to the Japanese economy for
ten thousand people to not buy Toyotas or Panasonics, etc.
The point of the article is that you do what you do and then
pay the price.
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