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Ady Gil sinks after whaling skirmish
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | January 8, 2010

Posted on 01/07/2010 6:52:08 PM PST by myknowledge

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To: crazydad
Whaling is sick. We have so much technology now adays they can use for the whale materiel they take...

Some say that Bingo, smoking cigars or watching cartoons on Saturday morning is "sick".

Thank you for your pronouncement, Mr. Arbiter of All That is Well and Good.

401 posted on 01/08/2010 6:38:00 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: top 2 toe red
If there was a food shortage in the world it would be different to slaughter whales...but, there is not!

So I gather that you don't ever eat any marine critters.

Neither do I.

I'm a strict vegetarian. I only eat critters that eat vegetables, herbs and grasses.

402 posted on 01/08/2010 6:46:15 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: top 2 toe red
I do not 'consume' any mammal...whales, deer, cattle, bunnies or any other animal.

Well, you had better start, or those of us that do will outlive you.

What do you do for B12 - Take pills?

403 posted on 01/08/2010 7:02:04 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: top 2 toe red
practicing that 'culture' would likely be frowned upon today.

I wish that were true.

This nation is full of cannibals - led by the current U.S. Congress and occupant of the White House.

404 posted on 01/08/2010 7:05:49 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper
I'm a strict vegetarian. I only eat critters that eat vegetables, herbs and grasses.

A cannibalistic carnivore...yeah, that's something to brag about.

405 posted on 01/08/2010 7:07:17 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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To: elkfersupper

Apparently, your ‘brain’ has gone far too long without sufficient oxygen...that’s what all that red meat does for your arteries.


406 posted on 01/08/2010 7:12:27 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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To: elkfersupper

Okay, I’ll call them “offspring.” The point is the same. Animals are bred by humans. They have more offspring because humans have bred them to be that way - more fertile than their wild counterparts.

Whales are NOT bred by humans. They live in the wild. Killing more of them will NOT result in them having more offspring.

Killing animals does NOT make them more fertile. There is NO connection.


407 posted on 01/08/2010 7:17:45 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: top 2 toe red
Apparently, your ‘brain’ has gone far too long without sufficient oxygen...that’s what all that red meat does for your arteries.

Typical liberal. If you can't dispute the truth, attack the messenger.

408 posted on 01/08/2010 7:19:41 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: worst-case scenario
Whales are NOT bred by humans. They live in the wild. Killing more of them will NOT result in them having more offspring.

Uh, I hunt large mammals every year that live in the wild and are not bred by humans.

The more we hunt them, the more there are.

409 posted on 01/08/2010 7:22:26 PM PST by elkfersupper (Member of the Original Defiant Class)
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To: elkfersupper

Okay, then I guess your anecdotal evidence trumps all research known to zoology. Tell it to the fisheries along the East Coast that have collapsed due to overfishing.


410 posted on 01/08/2010 7:31:16 PM PST by worst-case scenario (Striving to reach the light)
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To: elkfersupper
Idiot! Yeah, you! I'm probably more conservative than you could ever be!

Typical dimwitted lughead thinking...oh, a vegetarian/animal lover HAS to be a liberal!

Wrong!!!

411 posted on 01/08/2010 7:39:35 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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To: Dengar01
I don't care if this gets me banned. Those whalers are scum. They are the scum of the earth. And for FReepers who think they are God Almighty I implore you to go to Alaska during the Summer and take a boat ride to look at the humpback whales.

The tradition argument for their right to slaughter whales rings hollow as they don't go out in ancient wooden boats with hand thrown harpoons. They use the latest technoogy to make the kills. What the F are they studying that they need to know. I give Greenpeace a pass on harassing the Japs on this.

412 posted on 01/08/2010 9:34:16 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: festusbanjo
Whalers are producing a product for which there is a demand for. Eco terrorists are piles of excrement.

So for the sake of the hedonist market, you cheer the Chinese looking for bear parts and rhinoceros horns for aphrodisiacs, Koreans looking for dog meat, ivory lovers killing elephants for their tusks. You might as well as support the hedonists who seek children for their pleasure. After all their is a market for it.

413 posted on 01/08/2010 9:43:35 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: elkfersupper
Uh, I hunt large mammals every year that live in the wild and are not bred by humans.

The more we hunt them, the more there are.

You make a good argument for abortion with your impeccable logic.

414 posted on 01/08/2010 9:56:22 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

Nice apples and oranges argument. You compare child sex trade to whaling? nice logic.

Pray for America’s Freedom


415 posted on 01/08/2010 10:20:32 PM PST by bray (What ya in for Son? No Health Insurance. Me too.)
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To: top 2 toe red

Vegetarians have a larger carbon footprint than meat eaters. Kinda selfish way of life.

Pray for America’s Freedom


416 posted on 01/08/2010 10:23:03 PM PST by bray (What ya in for Son? No Health Insurance. Me too.)
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To: MilspecRob

There are between 5000-12000 Blue Whales and historically estimated at 20,000 not that you could get a count in the ocean. That’s hardly endangered.

Pray for America’s FReedom


417 posted on 01/08/2010 10:35:11 PM PST by bray (What ya in for Son? No Health Insurance. Me too.)
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To: top 2 toe red
"Idiot! Yeah, you! I'm probably more conservative than you could ever be!
Typical dimwitted lughead thinking...oh, a vegetarian/animal lover HAS to be a liberal!
Wrong!!!
"
Wow. He asked you what you do for B12 and you freak out?!
You may not be a liberal but you're certainly an a$$.
418 posted on 01/08/2010 11:26:31 PM PST by astyanax (Liberalism: Logic's retarded cousin.)
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To: bray
Total lie, not even a complete moron could say that with a straight face.

Yes...how very selfish to not participate in the slaughter and consumption of other creatures.sarc/

Why is it that so many carnivores feel the need to attack vegetarians for their life choice? Guilt, the only reason that makes sense.

Very rarely will you find that a vegetarian has attacked the choices of carnivores until provoked.

I certainly don't, I stated the disgust I felt over whale hunting and was immediately attacked because, "you must not know where hamburger comes from, do you not eat cows, deer, ducks, elk, etc., etc."

It was only after being accused of being a hypocrite, a liberal whale-hugger, an emotional responder, and other various stupid and jejune things, did I even reply simply, that no, I do not eat mammals, fish or poultry.

That's when so many meat-eating neanderthals pounced on me like a wild hyena for the crime of vegetarianism.

Now, if I were to follow suit with the same vein of attack that I as a vegetarian faced...I guess I would have said something like...No, I do not partake of the decaying flesh of another living being. A being that has their blood drained from their flesh in more than likely a cruel and torturous manner. A once living being that has it's carcass sawed apart, so some human can throw it's flesh onto a Barbecue grill, char it over with carcinogens and then gnat that artery clogging, heart attack waying flesh from the bones of the hacked apart once breathing, living anilmal. Not unlike a back alley stray dog latching on to piece of rotting flesh, that's a carnivore!

Yep...I guess I could have said something like that...but, then again, what is the point? I would have just been stating the obvious!

419 posted on 01/08/2010 11:29:13 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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To: astyanax
Typical liberal. If you can't dispute the truth, attack the messenger.

Where is B12 mentioned in this slanderous accusation?!?

420 posted on 01/08/2010 11:35:13 PM PST by top 2 toe red (Not supporting a corrupt, Marxist, Socialist President makes me a racist?!? Then a racist I am!!!)
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