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Originally Posted by my miss storm cat
Cherish as hamburger?
Medium rare prime rib?
I'm assuming this is directed at me so, for the record, I do not eat animals, I don't watch the show (there is very little on tv I watch) and I don't eat crap so am not sure if maybe you had a few too many Girl Scout cookies and are coming down from a sugar high or what.
Re: the Sea Shepherd... I keep up with their actions because of my immense respect.
I love horse racing and constantly defend it, the industry, myself, etc. to most people in my life because they see it as cruel. I just spent lunch doing this, once again, and it's draining.
I have not decided, in my own life, well these animals are important and these are not...
Some days there is so much overwhelming stuff (dead whales and dolphins, dogs being killed before the Olympics, turtles, donkeys, etc) that, when I come here, part of me feels like asking Nick to just please delete the thread for me cause I feel guilty for not posting stuff but then I could spend hours posting every damned thing I've read so I end up backing off.
I hope that anyone who bothers looking at this thread (and it's clearly marked and down here out of the way... I am not trying to incite anyone) knows or is made aware of what happens in the cove. I have never once posted footage of it nor do I post the gruesome pictures.
You say you have seen footage. Did you hear it as well? It's beyond me how anyone could have watched even just a couple of minutes of it... seeing and hearing them... how anyone could then nonchalantly say oh yeah been there, don't that, seen that.
I wish I could get the images out of my head... chilling and horrific and God the sounds...
Your posts seem very hostile and I don't really get why anything I've said should incense you.
I do hope you have a nice time on Valentines Day and that it's however you want it to be.
Me? I'll be at the Los Angeles protest and, while I know it seems pretty meaningless, maybe a couple of these protests will be covered and a few people who don't know about the cove will be made aware. That's the beginning of ending bad things, right? Educating people and having them become aware?
Sounds like a good way to spend Valentine's Day to me anyway.
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no, not directed at you, but to animal rights activists in general. and certainly not hostile. sorry you perceive it as such.
i think we've had far too many good discussions for you to think i'd suddenly become 'ol yeller in the corn crib.
that said, i do not understand how one can be a racing fan and defend it to people who don't understand the sport...and then turn around and attack people for doing something you don't understand.
i don't go for cruelty, i can see where some perceive the dolphin killing as such. but knowing about people catching thousands of tuna at one time in a net-i bet the fish don't think it's a picnic.
at any rate, i don't understand how some animals are ok to exploit, or eat, and others aren't.
people decry sea world, that they shouldn't keep killer whales and the like on display. i'd think dolphins and whales have gained a lot of really good pr because of those places. if people only watched nature shows to learn about killer whales, they'd find out why they're called that...or the wolves of the sea. they sure aren't omnivores.
i'd imagine people would find them a bit less cuddly if they saw them playing with a seal cub before eating it, or if they found out that killer whales have perfected the art of 'disrobing' a penguin so that they only eat the good stuff, not the feathers.
as for sea shepherd...i agree that japan shouldn't be able to exploit a legal loophole to take whales. i agree with their message.
i have huge issues with how they conduct their 'protests' against the japanese whalers. ship collisions, fouling of lines, etc. it makes people take them less seriously, not more.