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This is the closest to a relevant board, though I have a feeling I'm not going to get the responses I'm looking for.

Can anyone argue in favor of whale and dolphin hunting? What are the benefits? What are the hunted animals used for?

I have a hypocritical friend who feels they shouldn't be hunted because there is "no need to".
>> Anonymous
The whale population needs to be culled once in a while, or it will eat all the fish, starving themselves and us. Dolphin hunting? Never heard anything about that ... Also whales are good for eatin'.
>> Anonymous
The whale population needs to be culled so that jellyfish have the plankton they need to thrive.
>> Anonymous
Why shouldn't whales be hunted? Because there is NOT a humane way of doing it yet. Virtually all animals that are commercially sold and eaten are farmed and should be killed using humane practices. Whales are hunted out of the wild (not to mention in the southern antarctic sanctuary), killed inhumanely (can take quite a while to die from harpooning) and then not even all used for food (much of it going into pet food). Its unnecessary and seems its just Japans arrogance saying "we aren't going to let anyone tell us what to do" that keeps it going.
>> Anonymous
With fewer dolphins in the sea, there would be more sharks and tuna for us to eat.
>> Anonymous
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>>232711
And then somebody needs to hunt the jellyfish or the fishers are fucked.

No.
>> Anonymous
I had was on a university lecture just the other day about dolphins outside the coast of Tanzania. There, dolphins are hunted traditionally and used as bait for shark fishing. Not much value in other words - other things could be used as bait just as well. Also the dolphin populations are hunted towards extinction, which will always be a bad management of a population, no matter its economical value (or especially if the value is high).

Today, many try to stop dolphin hunting, both environmentalists and local inhabitants who just understand that the economical value of tourism (dolphin sightseeing) is much greater than the benefits of fishing.
>> Anonymous
We give permits to natives kill the occasional bald eagle for head dresses. Tradition is a spiritual need - we may not agree with it, but it's something they feel they need to do.

As for general society - your friend is right there, we don't "need" to, but that argument could apply to any animal.
>> Anonymous
>Because there is NOT a humane way of doing it yet.

And? You care about teh cute wanimal's feelings?
>> Anonymous
>>232761
well i sure as fuck wouldn't want to be speared in the head, dragged up on a boat and be gutted alive
>> Anonymous
They're probably fatty and delicious. Too bad they're poisonous now.
>> Anonymous
Well dolphins do kill for enjoyment.
>> Anonymous
Why does anyone care? It's not like you can have a dolphin as a pet. Kill them or don't kill them, makes no difference.
>> Anonymous
>>232767
>>well i sure as fuck wouldn't want to be speared in the head, dragged up on a boat and be gutted alive

I wouldn't want to be scooped up in a net, or caught in a little cage and pulled out of the water and tossed onto a deck where I slowly suffocated... if I'm lucky. I might make it all the way to a market, hundreds of miles away, and get tossed onto a bunch of ice with dozens of others, all of us gasping for life, until some shmuck takes us home, and drops us into a pot of boiling water.

So long as folks can do that to certain animals, trying to argue that doing something less sever to another animal as "inhuman" is just arbitrary- with no more "rightness" or "wrongness" than any other arbitrary choice.
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>> Anonymous
>>232794
I wouldn't want to be yanked outof the ground, have parts of me chopped off, then be shipped to a market to be piled on top of my mutilated brethren only to wait for people to poke and prod and decide whether I'm the right softness to eat, or I should be left to slowly rot and be devoured by the flies. If I'm lucky, I'll be sliced apart and eaten alive after occasional freezing.
>> Anonymous
>>232713
On top of this, Japan (the only country that I know of that kills lots of whales/dolphins; I think Norway allows it, but doesn't do it) claims that it kills the whales and dolphins for scientific research, even though the meat is sold for consumption (and much of it doesn't sell...old people are the main people who like it).

So no, anon, can't help you here. Try nailing that hypocrite on something else, I guess.
>> BitterAnon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
Fucking dolphins. Goddamn rapewhales. They will rape you and then they will laugh. Do you hear me? They will laugh as you flail and drown, then the rest of the pod rapes you. Then they use their brainwaves to wipe your memory so you wash up on the shore and think "Well I guess I hit my head while I was surfing and this horrible bleeding is probably from falling repeatedly on some large coral" when no, you didn't hit your head and stab your ass on coral, you were GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES.


>>232868
I hope your spiders lay eggs in your esophagus and you choke and your corpse gives birth to a bunch of hobo recluses you doodyhead.
>> Anonymous
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>>GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES.

Brutal. I'm gonna write a song about that.
>> Anonymous
>>233076
Swimmin' in the water,
snorkling with otters,
when all of a sudden-
GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES.

You think that you're safe,
but then they start to the chase,
before you turn your head-
GANG RAPED BY MURDERHWALES.

They toss you in the air,
and then they strip you bare,
the games have just begun-
GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES.

THE AVERAGE WHALE PENIS IS OVER SIX FEET LONG.
AND SOON YOU WILL EXPERIENCE EVERY INCH OF THAT DONG

THE OCEAN IS CALLING TO YOU... it says..

Raped...
Raped...
Raped...
Raped...
Raped...
Raped...
Ooooooooh, it's gonna hurt.

Stay off the land, or it's going in dry...

GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES.
GANG RAPED BY MURDERWHALES, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>233097
Thats beautiful.
>> BitterAnon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>233097
Someone must record this. All proceeds from record sales must be used to purchase a dolphin and massive amounts of barbecue sauce.
>> BitterAnon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>233097
actually..
>Stay off the land, or it's going in dry...
>Stay ON the land, or it's going in dry...
Fixed
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>>233097
fuckin' SAVED
>> Anonymous
>>233109
No Bitter those lines probably mean that even if you make it to land the murderwhales will still get you and will still rape you without the lubrication of the ocean water.