After reading a post on Wessel's blog concerning whaling, I've been having arb conversations with fellow teachers about why Japan keeps killing whales, even though their numbers are going down. Feeding thousands of schoolkids on tomato-soaked whale meat for school lunch, and till having enough left over for dogfood..
To see the entry, direct your cursors to
http://thesausageonmylap.blogspot.com/2006/11/here-today-gone-tomorrow.html#links
The fact is, it all comes down to supply and demand. The demand for tons of cheap meat is high in a country of 128,085,000 hungry people. And, as the saying goes, "There is nothing to throw away from a whale except its voice". Money talks, and it keeps the spears sharp.
To end this unfocussed post about waste (because I've had many rants about it in the past 3 months, plus Vicky just gave me a bowl of chicken curry and rice, so itadakimasho), I'd like to quote something by my new favourite author, Haruki Murakami.
Waste is the highest virtue one can achieve in advanced capitalist society. If you put an end to waste, mass panic would ensue and the global economy would go haywire. Waste is the fuel of contradiction, and contradiction activates the economy, and an active economy creates more waste.
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:( i understand the viewpoint, but i still think its wrong. have decided to make being a vegetarian official and this time for different reasons. if we are truly that evolved, can't we learn to pick up after ourselves?
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