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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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  1. 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

  2. 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.

  3. Lucy Lockett

    On November 19, 2007 at 7:24 pm


    Excellent article, hit them in the pocket, they might listen!

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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!

  11. 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?”

  12. cuipidskate

    On March 25, 2008 at 11:46 am


    stop buying and the killing will stop!!
    useless in killing whales..

  13. 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.

  14. 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

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. A. Fool

    On February 6, 2010 at 8:50 pm


    That is the point uuu….
    Hit them in the pocket.

  20. L.E.Monist

    On February 7, 2010 at 4:17 pm


    Well, although they aren’t much better, I find myself buying more Chinese stuff

  21. sanos

    On March 15, 2011 at 6:44 pm


    well sorry for what is happening in japan.but haiti,italy,and other country is been hit by nature..the difference is japan is been killing wales and dolphin without no shame and the government protect them.. i have been see many video and documentary ..so i guess you can’t go against nature and those animals are part of our nature that japan is been destroy for long long time..

  22. A. Fool

    On March 15, 2011 at 11:12 pm


    It is very sad what has happened in Japan.

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