reply to post by SunnyDee
The unpredictability of the beachings does not lend itself to easy research, ...
It would be easy to dispatch a team of engineers to collect the whales and cart them in refrigerated trucks to the nearest capable university for
study. Engineers are no fools, if the samples need to be dissected, they are more than capable of being guided through the process by a marine
biologist (via a satellite uplink) without damaging the samples. Once the cause of death was know, the meat could be snap frozen and sold to business
's licensed to handle and distribute.
The initial profits from the sale would be more than adequate to reimburse the engineers/biologists for the time and resources used. The data would go
to the public domain and Jane and John Smith could enjoy a plate of whale-burgers in any country, knowing that the money that they have just spent is
utilised in an environmentally friendly way.
... and the japanese are known to hunt the whales for food, oil, etc, not for research. And why the Japanese at all?
The whole premise that the Japanese use to hunt whales is done as scientific research when in fact, the evidence seems to indicate that the whaling is
in fact commercial.
Wiki I am well aware that other countries are also whaling but
only Japan is openly lying about it.
Personally, if Japan had a breeding program in place that replenished whale stocks, I wouldn't have a problem at all with whaling. To me, it is no
different from eating beef or chicken, bar that the current methods of catching the whales is absolutely inhumane.
