Please Help End Mass Slaughter of Dolphins in Japan

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If we take away the issue of mercury are you saying they shouldnt eat dolphin meat at all or that they should be more humane in the way they kill the dolphins?
and by the comparison to seal I was refering not just to the means of survival but in the manner they are killed which is the main issue of this topic.
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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
I found your comment really disheartening sister. People feel driven to do something when they have come to know about something and object to it. No one sits there picking and choosing which cause to support. At least not me. Perhaps if everyone supported those who try, we'd have enough support to make a difference for every good cause out there.

As for conditions in slaughter houses/intensive farming, the last time I tried to raise awareness of it, no one wanted to know. I felt people were scared because facing the truth would mean giving up their favourite foods, and not everyone is strong enough to do that. So people chose to ignore it. I'm ashamed of myself now, but for reasons I'm too tired to go into, and finding no further evidence, I eventually started believing I'd been duped by animal activists' groups to convert to vegetarianism, and slowly reverted to my old ways. But al hamdulillah, I'm back in the field. Insha Allah you'll hear of it when I have enough evidence to support my cause this time.


τhε ṿαlε'ṡ lïlÿ;1376396 said:

Have to agree with that-- I mean we take live lobsters and put them in a boiling watery grave
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.. I see no protests against that either-- I don't think sharks or whales are Halal to eat but if it is food and livelihood for some, then I think we should focus our efforts on people being slaughtered like say in Palestine.. would rather save human life than concern myself with whales in Japan..
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There are protests if you really want to find them. As for Palestine, I'm willing to send my beloved son to fight in the cause for Allah if he has to one day. Can I do more? If so please tell me what? But I don't agree that we should ignore every other wrong, when we can exercise some power to put it right.


If we take away the issue of mercury are you saying they shouldnt eat dolphin meat at all or that they should be more humane in the way they kill the dolphins?
and by the comparison to seal I was refering not just to the means of survival but in the manner they are killed which is the main issue of this topic.
Salam

I gather you didn't watch the videos then? The protest isn't about eating dolphin meat due to risk of mercury poisoning in the first instance. Although that is another good reason. It's about the unnecessary killing of dolphins along with the prolonged suffering they endure before they are finally dead. Their meat is then distributed FREE to schools in Japan. This has nothing to do with people's livelihood. Nineteen Thousand dolphins are killed annually in Japan because the fishing industry claim they are eating too many fish. SubhanAllah!






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There are protests if you really want to find them. As for Palestine, I'm willing to send my beloved son to fight in the cause for Allah if he has to one day. Can I do more? If so please tell me what? But I don't agree that we should ignore every other wrong, when we can exercise some power to put it right.
It isn't a matter of protest sister, it is whether or not I agree with the cause. And in this case I only see the american end of things, they can make a cause to save the rich with enough drama and violins--
All mammals bleed when slaughtered, that is what I saw in the first video and if that were the upsetting part then we may all be vegetarian.
I think we are meddling in a custom and a matter that is affects the Japanese. It is like going to an area where certain beetles are on the verge of extinction and maligning the locals for eating them. Different places have different customs, different eating habits, different lives. I am not going to condemn them because I have been made to instantly find it appalling through a dramatic piece. As stated before I don't condone torture of any living creatures.

I am working on an anesthesiology study right now involving rabbits the end result after subjecting them to surgery, fluid overload and anesthesia is death, you may not agree with that, but to me it is better a rabbit than a human life. If what it takes is a population of rabbits to save just one human life then it is worth it..Sometimes really tough choices have to be made for the greater good.

I don't know the entire story involving the whales and I am not going to make a premature decision because Jennifer Aniston said it with such heart.. She'd be better off quitting smoking first, I wonder how many people she has harmed of her second hand smoke alone..

It isn't to belittle your feelings or dismiss them. It is just a cause that I don't feel strongly about. I am simply voicing my own opinion and anyone is free to sign the petition and disagree with me..

And Allah swt knows best

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I found your comment really disheartening sister. People feel driven to do something when they have come to know about something and object to it. No one sits there picking and choosing which cause to support. At least not me. Perhaps if everyone supported those who try, we'd have enough support to make a difference for every good cause out there.

As for conditions in slaughter houses/intensive farming, the last time I tried to raise awareness of it, no one wanted to know. I felt people were scared because facing the truth would mean giving up their favourite foods, and not everyone is strong enough to do that. So people chose to ignore it. I'm ashamed of myself now, but for reasons I'm too tired to go into, and finding no further evidence, I eventually started believing I'd been duped by animal activists' groups to convert to vegetarianism, and slowly reverted to my old ways. But al hamdulillah, I'm back in the field. Insha Allah you'll hear of it when I have enough evidence to support my cause this time.

My comment wasnt in reference to you sis but to these rich westerners/ celebraties (in the video) going over to Japan to condemn what the Japanese are doing. Like I stated before they have plenty to condemn at home.






I gather you didn't watch the videos then? The protest isn't about eating dolphin meat due to risk of mercury poisoning in the first instance. Although that is another good reason. It's about the unnecessary killing of dolphins along with the prolonged suffering they endure before they are finally dead. Their meat is then distributed FREE to schools in Japan. This has nothing to do with people's livelihood. Nineteen Thousand dolphins are killed annually in Japan because the fishing industry claim they are eating too many fish. SubhanAllah!






As long as people are eating and it's not going to waste. The only objections I have to it is the method of slaughter, their declining numbers if they are being over-hunted, and the toxicity of the meat. If those issues did not exist their being slaughtered and eaten whether through donation or the market I would have no issue with. If it's being eaten I dont see how it can be deemed unnecessary.:hmm:. Alot of what we eat here in the west we can go without.
Is the japanese government lying about the dolphins eating all the fish? I dont understand what they would hope to gain by doing so.
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