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Whales are not fish, nor are they harvested like fish. “If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck into its stomach and being made to

Whales are not fish, nor are they harvested like fish. “If we can imagine a horse having two or three explosive spears stuck into its stomach and being made to pull a butcher’s truck through the streets of London while it pours blood in the gutter, we shall have an idea of the present method of killing. The gunners themselves admit that if whales could scream, the industry would stop, for nobody would be able to stand it.” - Dr Harry Lillie, 1946. Lillie was a a surgeon and medical officer aboard British whaling ships in the Antarctic during the 1940s.

fiblye 8y ago
>Whales are not fish, nor are they harvested like fish. And nowhere did I say that they are. Unlike fish, they're harvested in a way that doesn't result in wasteful and incredibly destructive bycatch. And frankly, it's hard to think of a form of butchering or mass-scale animal harvest that wasn't brutal in the 1940s. Factory farming today is a worse fate than most people can ever imagine hell to be, yet most of us (my hypocritical self included) are still providing financial support to it. Eating meat (at least as it is now) results in a death no matter how you go about it. The options we have are let an animal have a free life and suffer at the end, let an animal suffer its whole life then pop it in the brain to "stun it", or let it watch itself bleed out if you're going for halal/kosher food. Hunting and modern whaling are ironically more humane than most other methods of meat consumption we have.
- goalieca 8y ago
  Whales are very intelligent creatures.
- steve19 8y ago
  You did compare whaling to fishing, and with a straight face compared whaling to hunting small/medium animals and to halal methods of killing animals. There is no comparable suffering of a mammal that the cruel and draw out method killing a whale. It would be best compared to how the English hung drew and quareted the worst condemned prisoners. You are now bringing up strawmen. We are talking about whales. Not chickens. Yes battery chicken farming is aweful, so I don't eat battery chickens or eggs. Pig farming is terrible and if I didn't have religious objections to eating in the first place I would avoid that too. I also eat ethically grown beef. Just because other animals are mis treated does not mean anyone should give whaling a pass. If you truly belive fish are so bad, maybe you should avoid that too.
- Spooky23 8y ago
  I don’t know how you can be turned off by animal slaughter and ok with whaling.

fiblye 8y ago

>Whales are not fish, nor are they harvested like fish. And nowhere did I say that they are. Unlike fish, they're harvested in a way that doesn't result in wasteful and incredibly destructive bycatch. And frankly, it's hard to think of a form of butchering or mass-scale animal harvest that wasn't brutal in the 1940s. Factory farming today is a worse fate than most people can ever imagine hell to be, yet most of us (my hypocritical self included) are still providing financial support to it. Eating meat (at least as it is now) results in a death no matter how you go about it. The options we have are let an animal have a free life and suffer at the end, let an animal suffer its whole life then pop it in the brain to "stun it", or let it watch itself bleed out if you're going for halal/kosher food. Hunting and modern whaling are ironically more humane than most other methods of meat consumption we have.

goalieca 8y ago
Whales are very intelligent creatures.
steve19 8y ago
You did compare whaling to fishing, and with a straight face compared whaling to hunting small/medium animals and to halal methods of killing animals. There is no comparable suffering of a mammal that the cruel and draw out method killing a whale. It would be best compared to how the English hung drew and quareted the worst condemned prisoners. You are now bringing up strawmen. We are talking about whales. Not chickens. Yes battery chicken farming is aweful, so I don't eat battery chickens or eggs. Pig farming is terrible and if I didn't have religious objections to eating in the first place I would avoid that too. I also eat ethically grown beef. Just because other animals are mis treated does not mean anyone should give whaling a pass. If you truly belive fish are so bad, maybe you should avoid that too.
Spooky23 8y ago
I don’t know how you can be turned off by animal slaughter and ok with whaling.