Is the animal already dead when they disembowel the damn thing?
I don't want you all to misunderstand me, I am a meat eater and I could never go vegan I'd probably become a canibal first but I don't enjoy the point of disemboweling creatures while they are still alive, I wouldn't even do that to the racoons that trash my garbage each week.
If you are going to kill an animal, make it fast. When the Japanese hunt the Minke and Fin Whales it sometimes takes 30 - 40 minutes for them to die after being A) Harpooned and B) Shot with Rifles or C) Drowned to death.
I don't think that you have to necessarily be a radical left wing lunatic like the Sea Shepherd folk and still support treating animals in a "humane" way. If you are going to kill it chop it's F'ing head off. That's what my grandpa did to the damn chickens. Quick and painless.
When people are torturing animals out of pure pleasure well, that is just disgusting. And I know that I have the support of many FReepers with that statement.
I don't support Sea Shepherd but I don't support the Japs either. I don't think we need to kill whales in 2010. I am a sap, I went to Alaska and got to see a gray whale from 10 yards and humpbacks at 30 yards. I don't want to see these amazing creatures tortured when we can't even torture Al-Qaeda. I think disembowling a creature while it's still alive is sure as hell a lot worse than putting pantys on the head of some terrorist filth bag!
If you wanna label me fringe, so be it. I've been here almost 10 years and stand up for what I believe in. I am conservative on everything but do have a soft spot for animals, mainly because I grew up in the forest where I got to see every type of creature you can see.
My next post will be completely biased as it will be coming from Sea Shepherd but I want you all to see the horror of what happened in the whale massacre.
I think if you enjoy torturing animals then you are a sick person. The profile of a serial killer begins with them torturing animals and eventually leads to them killing human beings. So I'd be careful when you praise the backward natives.
The backward natives known as the Aztec did human sacrifice should we kowtow to them? The Mayans rolled heads down pyramids, should we kowtow to their tradition?
This tradition argument is complete BS and you all know it.
If someone can logically explain to me how torturing a creature for 40 minutes is OK, then I would love to hear your explanation. If not you are a sick person and should see a psychiatrist immediately.
Anyways here is a link from Sea Shepherd WHICH IS LEFT WING BIASED but it does include VERY GRAPHIC PICTURES, VIEWER WARNING!!!
http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100720-1.html
I find this whole torture the whales thing disgusting, but that is just my opinion and the good thing about Free Republic is we can disagree and still not hate eachother or go down to the level of the left wing loons.
The article said 4 minutes, not 40 minutes. And that account was given by an anti-whaling activist.
Anti-whaling activist Peter Hammarstedt, 28, exposed last week's killings by posing as a film-maker in the fishing town of Klaksvik.
He said: "One whale had five to six chops to her head. Her death would have been slow and extremely painful. Some whales are hacked repeatedly for up to four minutes until they finally die. When I got to the docks it was a truly gruesome sight."
So even the biased account from the activist with an axe to grind doesn't sound like such a terrible thing to me. Not that I'd like to be hacked to death over four minutes. But I'd prefer not to be shot in the head prior to being butchered as well. And, given the source, I discount the brutality described. I don't support whale hunting, I just can't get emotionally traumatized by this account and photos. So should I see a psychiatrist immediately?