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Originally posted by lee anoma
Originally posted by GoodFella
IMO if you eat meat of any kind you have no right to protest agains this.
Why is it ok to slaughter cows, chickens, pigs etc., but not whales?
By eating meat you are supportive of animal slaughter (and i say this as a meat eater).
Do you think the Native Americans hated the Buffalo?
You can eat meat and respect nature, by keeping things in balance.
You can respect the animal kingdom and still hunt in it.
Most of the indigenous peoples of the world have done so for quite some time.
"Civilized" man was the wasteful and cruel one.
- Lee
Originally posted by fraterormus
Is it any more unethical for the Danes than say Santarians or Voudons who use animal sacrifice for their rituals? Animal Sacrifice used to be part of all the large mainstream religions too.
Even though this is a ritualized Social practice, and not an actual Religious practice, doesn't negate that in some cultures this is part of their heritage and a noble deed in their culture's eyes.
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
I'd eat my neighbor's new kitten in front of her if it would get her to shut up about how cute it is.
Originally posted by yadda333
Originally posted by lee anoma
Do you think the Native Americans hated the Buffalo?
You can eat meat and respect nature, by keeping things in balance.
You can respect the animal kingdom and still hunt in it.
Most of the indigenous peoples of the world have done so for quite some time.
"Civilized" man was the wasteful and cruel one.
- Lee
The Native Americans hunted the buffalo, and other species, since their arrival in the new world to near extinction. Archaeologists even made jokes saying they had "stone weapons of mass destruction".
Although the army was plagued by strategic failures, the near extermination of the American bison during the 1870s helped to mask the military's poor performance. By stripping many Indians of their available resources, the slaughter of the buffalo severely reduced the Indians' capacity to continue an armed struggle against the United States.
The military's role in this matter is difficult to asses. Sheridan and Sherman recognized that eliminating the buffalo severely reduced the Indians' capacity to continue an armed struggle against the United States. The editors of the Army and Navy Journal supported the proposition, comparing such an effort with Civil War campaigns against Confederate supplies and food sources.
Originally posted by New Lanark Boy
reply to post by metaldemon2000
But almost all the murdered people are foreign & live in far away countries. I couldn't care less about them. They had their choice and their choice was to reject benevolent colonialism and revert to barbarism.
And who misses them ? No-one really.
Another Faroese specialty is Grind og spik, pilot whale meat and blubber. (A parallel meat/fat dish made with offal is garnatálg). Well into the last century meat and blubber from the pilot whale meant food for a long time.
Originally posted by GoodFella
Killing an animal is killing an animal. It doesnt matter if it's a bullet to the head or a knife to the throat.