Mink whaling is more responsible and sustainable than a lot of commercial fishing - compare the impacts of hunting a species that’s classified as “least concern” with deep-sea trawling, the hunting of certain endangered species of tuna, or the use of the eggs and/or young spawn of endangered fish as caviar or whitebait!
Whaling definitely needs to go but (non-Antarctic) whaling gets an oversized amount of attention and it’s not unusual for people who are opposed to it to be financially supporting even more destructive forms of kaimoana.
Believe what you want. You’ve already decided that you are both offended and correct, so there’s nothing that anyone can say to change your mind. Just understand that not listening doesn’t make you right, it makes you a zealot.
Except can you really say “genociding native americans” and “slavery” are a part of American culture? Is it “customary” of Americans to kill native americans and slavery can be an American trait?
If you include the period before we split from England we spent centuries taking land that didn’t belong to us and building our economy at least partly on slavery. If you look at the South in that time frame slavery permeated their culture. It is as fair to say that slavery was if anything much more deeply embedded in Southern culture than whaling in Iceland.
Genociding Native Americans and slavery are part of American culture too, but we mostly stopped that.
Would you accept “ItS tHEiR cUlTuRe” if someone decides whaler hunting is part of their history?
Are you seriously comparing the responsible hunting of a sustainable number of minke whales to the deliberate genocide of an indigenous population?
Yes. Cry about it.
I’ll have to comfort eat to deal with the sadness. Where are the whale burgers?
So contrarian and edgy! You must rule 8th grade!
You know it ;)
There is no such thing as sustainable or responsible whaling.
Mink whaling is more responsible and sustainable than a lot of commercial fishing - compare the impacts of hunting a species that’s classified as “least concern” with deep-sea trawling, the hunting of certain endangered species of tuna, or the use of the eggs and/or young spawn of endangered fish as caviar or whitebait!
Whaling definitely needs to go but (non-Antarctic) whaling gets an oversized amount of attention and it’s not unusual for people who are opposed to it to be financially supporting even more destructive forms of kaimoana.
Source?
Believe what you want. You’ve already decided that you are both offended and correct, so there’s nothing that anyone can say to change your mind. Just understand that not listening doesn’t make you right, it makes you a zealot.
Provide a source that whaling is sustainable and responsible.
https://www.itromso.no/meninger/i/xgX51G/norsk-hvalfangst-er-sunt-og-bra
Yes, it’s genocide. They’re barbarians who need to be put in their place for killing whales. I support a coup on the government
I don’t think you know what “culture” means. It’s not just stuff that people did in the past, it’s what traditions are based around.
How do you think Iceland traditionally got food? They’re not exactly surrounded by arable land are they?
This just in: tradition is an excuse to dress up and party, not do bad things.
“It’s tradition, that makes it okay! Hip hip hooray it’s Weasel Stomping Day!”
Except can you really say “genociding native americans” and “slavery” are a part of American culture? Is it “customary” of Americans to kill native americans and slavery can be an American trait?
It sure was.
Yes, it was explicitly part of American culture, and is written into our very foundational documents.
If you include the period before we split from England we spent centuries taking land that didn’t belong to us and building our economy at least partly on slavery. If you look at the South in that time frame slavery permeated their culture. It is as fair to say that slavery was if anything much more deeply embedded in Southern culture than whaling in Iceland.