BF2S Forums Iceland Resumes Commercial Whaling

Turquoise wrote:

stockFD3S wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

At least read the thread, I eat meat, but not whale meat.

You should try horse, it isn't bad either.

LOL...  ah yes...  Horse...  What about cat or dog? 

I favor environmental protection, but I think an Icelander in this thread already hinted at the practical solution.  They could just put limits on how many whales could be hunted per year.  Various countries already have laws in place that are aimed at preventing overfishing.  Where they have been applied, they've worked.

There's no need to ban whale hunting outright.

Poeple don't respect the limits so if you say kill 30 they will kill 500.

kr@cker wrote:

honestly serge, how is the argentine beef, here it's supposed to be quite the treat as argentine cattle are grass fed as opposed to grain fed, but i've never been able to find it anywhere, not even at Ted Turner's "montana grill", a monument to all that is steak

I prefer pasta or pizza, but our meat is great, just coz our cows eat grass as you mentioned.  We have 80 million cows here, and we're only 40 million people.  It's the cow country.

sergeriver wrote:

joker3327 wrote:

The problem is ...the whale population has recovered so well it is now at levels previously unrecorded...so they reckon they can get a couple of good years out of them before they ban it again.....like trout farming!!

The population is recovering, but they're still endangered species.  The population of Humans is now at levels previously unrecorded, let's hunt some.

LOL! If it only wasn't so god damn illegal!!

I would love to hunt some illegal immigrants. . . .

chittydog wrote:

Personally, I have no desire to hunt, but as long as you eat what you kill, there's no problem.

Whaling isn't inherently bad. It's only bad now because they're endangered. Once the population recovers, it's no worse than any other meat source.

In fact, I believe whaling is probably one of the most moral animals to hunt. Killing one whale feeds a LOT of people. One death = lots of full stomaches. Now compare that to chicken. One death = food for 2 or 3. How about shrimp. Ten deaths = an appetizer. The larger the animal, the more meat it yields and the more ethical it is to hunt it, as long as we don't hunt them to extinction.

I think this sums up my view on this:

Red meat, white meat, blue meat, meat-o-fucking-rama. You will eat it. Because not eating meat is a decision. Eating meat is an instinct! Yeah! And I know what it's about. "I don't want to eat the meat because I love the animals. I love the animals." Hey, I love the animals too. I love my doggy. He's so cute. My fluffy little dog.. He's so cute- There's the problem. We only want to save the cute animals, don't we? Yeah. Why don't we just have animal auditions. Line 'em up one by one and interview them individually. "What are you?" "I'm an otter." "And what do you do?" "I swim around on my back and do cute little human things with my hands." "You're free to go." "And what are you?" "I'm a cow." "Get in the fucking truck, ok pal!" "But I'm an animal." "You're a baseball glove! Get on that truck!" "I'm an animal, I have rights!" "Yeah, here's yer fucking cousin, get on the fucking truck, pal!" We kill the cows to make jackets out of them and then we kill each other for the jackets we made out of the cows. - Dennis Leary