Two Videos About Dolphins
Posted on March 17, 2009 - Filed Under Animals | Leave a Comment
I don’t know why the Japanese government allows this. Animals are mistreated all over the world for bad reasons and slightly less-bad reasons, but I can’t imagine that a very solid economic argument exists for letting this kind of thing take place, especially if it only happens in one village. Sure, there might be a political cost in the form of a traditionalist/nationalist backlash against the government for bowing to the pressure of foreign repugnance at the practice, but overall it would surely be worth it.
Then again, Canada doesn’t have a problem with seal pups getting their skulls bashed in every winter, Denmark doesn’t care to stop the Faeroe Islands killing whales with a method similarly gruesome to the one used by the Japanese villagers, and Sarah Palin’s Alaska allows, neigh encourages, hunters to shoot wolves with shotguns from helicopters (yes, really), so maybe Japan has little to fear in terms of bad press for letting this practice continue. The world is a sick place.
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