24 junho 2007

Not for the faint hearted... Be warned

The Guardian has an audio slideshow on whale slaughtering in Japan.

Knut the bear, from the previous post, is one of the largest animals on this earth, and certainly the largest carnivore.

I tell you, it takes a lot of strength to watch the largest animal on earth, endangered as it is, sliced, diced or sun-dried, as they say in the newspaper's piece.

This happens in a developed, modern, affluent and whatnot country.

Does their economy need this?

My economy will most probably never allow me to visit Japan, or Norway, or wherever they still have to resort to this, poor countries.

And yes, gotta love Portugal, 'cos our very own Azores Islands have had WHALE WATCHING for years, as opposed to what economy drove them to do ages ago.

The label All things Japanese applies here, of course, it isn't merely for the good ones.


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