=Lisa0;1376275]I dont understand this. Uneccessary cruelty to any animal is wrong but if they're selling it as meat and people are eating it why should they be condemned for it?
Sis, I think you haven't watched the video. They aren't selling the meat. They're giving it away for free to schools. It's not even for necessity. According to them the dolphins are pests who are consuming too many fish which is seen as a big loss to fisheries.
(besides the issue of mercury). It's not like the fur business where animals are killed in inhumane ways just so rich people can have fur or sharks having their only fins cut off just to make a special soup.
You should watch the video. Hacking away at an animal and causing it to die slowly suffering in pain
is inhumane.
This kind of reminds me of the issue of seal hunting done by the Inuit. These people have others protesting against them and calling for bans to seal meat, but seal hunting is their livilihood and how they survive. Conditions in slaughter houses in the west are terrible and boiling lobsters alive is wrong but I dont see protests against that. I dont understand this picking and choosing of causes.
Salam
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There is no scarcity of food in Japan. And even if there was, it wouldn't justify causing suffering to an animal. If is hadn't been for the activists, this annual slaughter would have remained a well kept secret from the world as well as the Japanese public. Before the event was caught on tape after months of preparation, one fisherman quipped that if the world knew what was going on they'd be shut down. Why the guilt? They don't feel the same fear when dicing chickens. So even they know what they are doing is beyond acceptable. I don't see how this act can be compared to people killing seals if they have nothing else to eat.
=muhaba;1376348]Couldn't see the video
Try viewing it at
www.savejapandolphins.com inshaAllah.
there is nothing wrong with eating from sustenance provided by Allah ---------------- but if they are being slaughtered in inhuman cruel ways, then that should be stopped
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There are rules to be followed when eating from Allah's provision. The pre-Islamic arabs used to cut parts out of an animal to eat while it was alive. It was our beloved prophet (saw) who put a stop to this cruelty, and forbade maiming and disfiguring animals, regardless whether that animal was made halal for us to eat. Allah has ordained kindness in everything, including the slaughter of animals for food. We have a huge responsibility toward His creatures. Their being food for us does not in anyway make them less important. This is why it's so important to help this cause, inshaAllah.
"He (Allah) it is Who made you vicegerents on Earth; he who disavows, the burden of disavowal will be on him..." (Quran 35:39)
The share of all of Allah's creatures is His bounties is emphasized in the following verses. Then if a people are killing Allah creatures purely because they are seen as pests for eating their share of what Allah has provided for them, then we must protest. Now we have not one (unnecessary suffering) not two (mercury) but three (denying animals their basic rights) reasons to protest.
"Then let man look at his food: how We pour water in showers, then turn up the earth into fiurrow-slices and cause cereals to grow therein - grapes and green fodder, olive trees and palm trees; and luxurious orchards, fruits and grasses. Provision for you as well as your cattle." (Quran 80:32)
"And He it is Who sends the winds, as glad tidings heralding His mercy. And We send down pure water from the clouds, that We may give life thereby, by watering the parched, and slake the thirst of those We have created - both animals and humans being in multitude." (Quran 25:48, 49)
I don't agree with those who say that dolphins or whales are endangered and shouldn't be eaten. If Allah wants to keep whales from going extinct, He will do so. And if Allah wants them to get extinct, then it will happen no matter how much people try to save them. Allah has made seafood halal and it should be eaten when possible. Trying to save dolphins from becoming extinct when there are starving people is dumb and inhuman.
Sorry, I disagree. If something is in danger of being harmed/extinction due to man's greed, then we have a responsibility to stop it. To say we shouldn't do something because if Allah wanted, He would've done so Himself, is like saying let's stop helping one another because if Allah wanted He would've done so Himself. Allah has given us responsibilities and limits and tests. Allah has been providing His entire Creation for billions of years. There's no excuse to end an entire species because people are too selfish to enjoy alternatives.
"Seest thou not that it is Allah Whose praises are celebrated by all being in the heavens and on earth, and by the birds that fly with extended wings? Each one knows its psalm, and Allah is aware of what they do." Quran 24:41)