CrossTalk on Whaling: Cockroaches of Sea?

On this edition of Peter Lavelle's CrossTalk, he asks his guests why it is so difficult to end the practice of whaling in the world.

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[zapproowsdower]

@12GaugeLosAngeles there's no species of animal on the planet that is truly "essential" for life. vegetarians get by just fine.

I find it hypocritical of anyone who focuses just on whales and dolphins, while cows, pigs, and other domesticated mammals are considered "normal".

Or is it intelligence? Pigs are considered very smart, we eat them. Chimps and primates are experimented on. Why is Japan being demonized for THEIR abuse of mammals, when everyone does it?

[12GaugeLosAngeles]

Whaling is horrendous, the oldest large mammals, not fish! The feel pain, give birth like us, give milk to their young. Humans don't NEED whales, the profit is there cause the ban. You can't farm these animals either, they are the beauty of nature, like why hunt lions, pandas, endangered birds. Fuck the laws, jst kill the pochers. Kill them, slice their eyes out and make an example out of them. I will murder a Japanese on their turf is i seen the dolphin slaughter fest they have, they all cry.

[ymonkey333]

I don't care whether you agree or not cause you don't understand science perhaps!!

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[crysis658]

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[RoboRights]

@sambaxrock "anti-human fights? You're the one who is destroying the world on humans in support of vermin creatures.

[elfornse]

@sambaxrock Governments and alliances come and go all the time. Jurisdictions come and go all the time. Governments, jurisdictions and laws are based on human decisions which can change at any time so there's a 100% chance you can have anything privatized. Why do you assume that sea animals MUST migrate? Someone who owns part of the ocean may work out a way to 'warm' and 'cool' their part of the ocean so as to create the right environment for feeding, reproduction and farming.

[sambaxrock]

@elfornse ok, have a read here:

United_Nations_Convention_on_t­he_Law_of_the_Sea

There's absolutely 0% chance that you could ever have international waters privatized, that counts for about 80% of all oceans.

Even if that was possible, fencing the ocean containing the animals that must migrate to stay in warm waters, to feed and reproduce is beyond anyone's reach.

I'm assuming you're at school so I urge you to debate it at with your collages, you're a smart kid!

[sambaxrock]

@RoboRights Stop being so anti-human rights and start respecting other members of society that are more productive than you.

If you want to add a comment here first do your homework, debate at class and see what your schoolmates think about your rhetoric, and please, stop acting so anti-human rights.

[RoboRights]

@sambaxrock It is YOU who would be a disgrace as a parent seeing as you are out to over-populate the world with vermin beasts that will only contribute to the poisoning of nature. If I was one of your children I would probably try and do you in before you do me in with your ridiculous notions of and your mentally derranged emotional attachment to wild beasts. If your a female I hope you have your tubes tied. If you're a male get a vascetomy. Do the world a favor.

[elfornse]

@sambaxrock Oceans can be privatized in exactly the same way as land is privatized. That is, ocean property rights are relinquished by whichever Government currently lays claim to them, and are then turned over to those who have actually homesteaded it (ie mixed their labor with it). Once private ownership is established, the new owners then have an economic incentive to come up with ways to exploit the sea (eg develop ocean fencing systems, tame and domesticate sea creatures for commercial use)