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No One Eats Whales. Why Does Anyone Kill Them?
The Big Money (Slate) ^
| June 21, 2010
| Peter Christian Hall
Posted on 07/21/2010 7:49:38 PM PDT by sinanju
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All that recent talk about "Whale Wars" had me thinking. Now, bear in mind that the author is leftist puke who writes for NYT, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Village Voice, etc. so his journalistic integrity is dubious at best. Some of the commenters on the site take him to task for his obvious slant, but the heart of his argument is that few people in the above nations can stand whale meat and that the industry, such as it is, is being kept alive on taxpayer life support.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:49:40 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sinanju
>> the industry, such as it is, is being kept alive on taxpayer life support
If that’s the criteria for shutting down an industry, then the solar power/wind power/wave power industries all need to go bye-bye.
Add in the ethanol fuel industry. No taxpayer subsidy, no profit in ethanol, no ethanol industry.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:53:31 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: sinanju
I bet you could run a diesel engine on whale oil.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:54:11 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
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To: sinanju
"No One Eats Whales. Why Does Anyone Kill Them?" Well, under Obama's energy program electricity prices have "necessarily sky-rocketed" so I've converted to whale oil for heat and light. It saves me a bundle.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:55:58 PM PDT
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: sinanju
Whales are the locus of all evil in the universe.
Whales must be destroyed.
All else is irrelevant.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:56:56 PM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: smokingfrog
The point being that synthetic substitutes replaced whale oil and all that was made from it long, long ago. Not to mention baleen.
Unless there is a significant number of people who actually want to eat the stuff, why bother killing the damn things? And if there ARE people who like it, can’t whalers do the job without govt’ largesse?
It looks like we’re talking buggy whips here.
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:57:27 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: sinanju
Because they are menace to yachters!@!!
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:57:28 PM PDT
by
mylife
(Opinions $1 Halfbaked 50c)
To: smokingfrog
>> I bet you could run a diesel engine on whale oil.
Yeah, it sounds like this:
“blubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubberblubber...”
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posted on
07/21/2010 7:57:28 PM PDT
by
Nervous Tick
(Eat more spinach! Make Green Jobs for America!)
To: sinanju
Some people eat whale blubber.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:00:24 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
To: sinanju
There’s absolutely no point in fighting the lefties in the vanishingly rare situations in which they’re right and the whole concept of whaling in today’s world is idiotic and indefensible.
To: wendy1946
“the whole concept of whaling in todays world is idiotic and indefensible.”
Why? They aren’t killing endangered whales. How is it any different than killing a cow?
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:05:11 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: Nervous Tick
“If thats the criteria for shutting down an industry, then the solar power/wind power/wave power industries all need to go bye-bye.
Add in the ethanol fuel industry. No taxpayer subsidy, no profit in ethanol, no ethanol industry.”
They can’t be killed quick enough!
As far as the whales, they are stinking, literally, useless sacks of blubber !!!
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:06:00 PM PDT
by
dalereed
To: wendy1946
Yes but it’s such fun watching hippies getting their asses handed to them.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:07:23 PM PDT
by
Graybeard58
("Anyone pushing Romney must love socialism...Piss on Romney and his enablers!!" ~ Jim Robinson)
To: sinanju
In the 60s, Japan exported canned whale to the USA. My dad used to buy it all the time. In BBQ sauce. Very tasty.
To: sinanju
No One Eats Babies. Why Does Anyone Kill Them?
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:09:51 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Conservatism isn't a party)
To: sinanju
I dont eat roaches either, but I sure do enjoy squishing them.
To: sinanju
Whales make great tasting gum! Yummmmmmmmy....
To: Brugmansian
The damn whales pollute the pristine oceans with their waste. Has a whale ever built a sewage plant???? They can’t be too smart putting waste into where they swim and drink. Whales...an animal that needs to go.
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:10:56 PM PDT
by
hal ogen
To: sinanju
‘Minke whale kebabs are a common dish in Reykjavik.’
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:11:38 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
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To: mylife
I am wondering about that photo. I mean what is the chance that you would be taking a picture just at the instance a whale jumped out of the water and onto a boat?
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posted on
07/21/2010 8:11:47 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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