As someone who has migrated to another country, I understand that sometime some food that I used to eat in the country of my birth is not available here. So I sometime miss those food. That is what some Japanese people may be feeling about whale as food. If they haven’t had some for some time they miss the taste of it.
If you miss something you start to rationalise the means you take to satisfy your craving. It’s a bit like people who rationalise the means they take to overcome their craving to some form of addiction. E.g. stealing from the rich isn’t really stealing, in order to buy some drug.
On the other hand some people could also rationalise, if there were 3 whales left on Earth, they could still eat one of three, because the species is not really extinct as long there is a pair left.
If there is a global disease that destroys the world harvest of rice, will the Japanese people stave from not eating rice? They will surely eat a substitute, wether it be flour or corn and they will survive. If you can’t have something to eat, you eat something else, but you don’t try devious way to have it, unless it is an irrational unhealthy addiction. No one needs to go hungry if they do not eat any whale meat, eat something else.
So I want the Japanese to be honest about their whale research. Just like we don’t eat lab rats, or genae pig, they should not be selling the meat of whale killed for research as food. Isn’t there other means to do research without killing the whales? How can you rationalise saving endangered species by killing them?
There should be an international ban on the selling of whale meat as food, once this ban is in place, we’ll see if there will be any more need for further whale ‘research’.
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