Blimey.
I thought they'd done Pearl Harbour again!
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Originally Posted by jjjnettie
We should be farming Roo's not cattle.
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Jen, Jen, Jen.
You can't '
farm' Roos. Not on a commercial scale.
They can jump over any fence you (can afford to) build and don't herd well.
They have to be shot.
Or hit with a truck.
Or convinced to suicide.
Its hard to tell an "emo" 'roo from a well-adjusted one, so this last one is a lot of work.
Besides.
Despite all the bad press, cattle are one of the most useful and 'useable' sources of protein around.
Yer average steer is worth 6 or 7 Kangaroos in terms of 'harvestable' product.
There is not a single part that can't be used for something.
Also, whatever gas they produce tends to be off-set by the grass they eat.
Which then has to re-grow.
Producing more Oxygen.
Our cattle even exist happily with the natives.
Our Wombats and Koalas mix happily with the cattle as the cows tend to scare the foxes and dogs away!
Lastly:
Has anyone ever actually had a craving for a Kangaroo T-bone?
Thought not.
But I digress,
I'm 100% anti-whaling.
Even though, and bear with me here, whales, dolphins, porpoises etc. are no more 'intelligent' than a dog.
Sorry.
It's true.
By any objective test of animal intelligence (or human for that matter) Cetaceans are, relatively dim.
Tim. Tim. Nice but dim, as it were.
Poodles are smarter.
If they were
truly Intelligent, they'd gang-up on the ships and sink 'em.
Or at least sit on the bottom until they got bored and buggered-off.
Or even change their migration routes.
Or learn to breath water (actually, they're a bit of an evolutionary dead-end are Whales and Dolphins)
Intelligence is almost by definition, the ability to out-think one's situation.
Films aside, if someones chasing you with a car, you don't run ahead of it, you dive into the bushes.
Or stop, step aside and let it go by.
It takes ages for a ship to turn. If they were capital-"I"-intelligent, they'd just keep stopping or changing directions. The ship'd run out of fuel long befor a harpoon could be launched.
Whales and Dolphins are also
not benign, spiritual animals that waft from sea-to-sea contemplating the universe.
If you are a Krill or a Herring or a Seal, they are immense, relentless, remorseless, killing machines that have been attempting species-cide on you for eons.
That Pacific Whiteside? Yes, that one
there, the one that hippy chick is singing to? He ATE your uncle Herbert!
But Cetaceans ARE beautiful, friendly, inquisitive and magnificent beasts and as I'm prone to anthropomorphising, I'd happily put my attack-pedallo between one and a whaling ship any day.
I even helped outfit the Rainbow Warrior (death to the French!).
Unfortunately the Japanese are not the only ones who Whale commercially.
The Scandanavians do it as well, though in nowhere near the numbers.
Some villages do however have a particularly brutal way of dispatching them by driving them onto a beach and then shooting, cutting and clubbing them.
It's tremendously uncivilised, so boycott IKEA and Volvo!!
Even worse (I think), is the practice now sanctioned by the Canadian and American governments allowing "indigenous peoples" of the Pacific Northwest to hunt Orcas for sport.
It's supposed to be a test of their manhood or some bull****.
Hey.
Part of my Anglo-Saxon heritage is, guess what? - hunting Indians for sport!
"Penelope! Break out the 30-06! I see a canoe!"
It sends Geenpeace into paroxysms of indecision as they're all touchy-feely on native North Americans and as it's part of their 'heritage' they don't know how to confront it.
I do.
It's ****ing ugly and brutal and so's their heritage (the Haida particularly)!
Most indigenous 'culture' is about killing animals and dismembering enemies.
You think the Mega-fauna in Australia and North America just caught the sniffles and died within 200 years of people arriving?
Whew!
OK.
Rant over!
We now return you to your regular programming.
