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[Nic D]

Hey StinkyMatt.... Id love to hear your thoughts on this quote.

Originally Posted by bmercury

And in India not only do they not eat cows... They used to engage in widow burning... Still engage in some forms of wife burning rarely. Not wrong, just a different culture? Just because something happens in the context of another culture does not make it ethical.

[StinkyMatt]

So because a society (or a few members of it) does (or did in the past) something that you do not agree with or is not moral you discount EVERYTHING they believe or do? Lets see, we murdered Native Americans, imprisoned the Japaneese, had slavery for a couple hundred years, we are the only country to drop an atomic bomb on a civilian population..... does this make ALL of us bad? or our values less or more imortant than those of other cultures?

Bringing "burning widows" into the discussion of which species a fisherman can or can not legally kill is silly. You may or may not want to kill a calico, tshark, a WSB or dolphin, but you don't want to go and be the "God" that determines WHICH species are OK. It is simply not good for our sport of fishing for us FISHERMEN to start making a stand against a group of people who happen to legally harvest a different species then what we hunt. When fishermen can not even be united in the effort to maintain our freedom/ right to harvest animals or fish, think how easy we make it for the enviro groups to attack us.

I want to fish and not have to look over my shoulder at the beach to see if a fellow fisherman is criticizing my choice of keeper (legal) fish.

[Gino]

If they arent eating the burned widows, then its irelevant of the point.

[GregAndrew]

Originally Posted by Gino

If they arent eating the burned widows, then its irelevant of the point.

LMFAO I hear they taste like chicken.

[wade]

Originally Posted by Gino

If they arent eating the burned widows, then its irelevant of the point.

They arent eating the whales meat either..
(Not that it makes it more acceptable to me personally..)

"It is in these islands, halfway between Scotland and Iceland, that the slaughter of entire pods of pilot whales takes place. Not for profit, but because it is considered by the islanders to be fun to kill them.
They do eat some whale meat but the flesh is so contaminated with mercury that Faeroese children have higher levels of mercury in their bodies than any other people on the planet. But the majority of the whales are killed and dumped at sea, and Sea Shepherd was able to secure evidence of this waste.."

[Gino]

Oh Wade I was talking along the lines of "the cove"

As far as the dutch killin Pilot whales. Id like to see the evidence that those kids have "They do eat some whale meat but the flesh is so contaminated with mercury that Faeroese children have higher levels of mercury in their bodies than any other people on the planet."

Im willing to bet there is some third world countries that have those kids topped! I think many years ago i heard that they were killing pilot whales for sport in the Norway, And in some of those countries its considered a Tradition. maybe im wrong about that. You got that picture of kids sitting on them as happy as can be. It seems to be a cultural norm for them. Its largely gone pretty unoticed around the world. So i dont think its a big deal, Just the Greenpeace crew reaching out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling..._Faroe_Islands I just looked that up, they have been doing it for alot longer than the US has been around. There tradition is pretty heavily regulated and followed. As much as I personally would not seek out to kill a whale. I dont see anything wrong with what they are doing. we are in the 21st century If it had little meaning to there cutral identity they would have given it up along time ago.