Cows and whales, coming to a farm near you?

An Australian newspaper reporter has posted an online article implying that hunting whales is no different than eating cows.  No, seriously—look.  It’s almost amusing because the argument is so full of holes that it seems like it should be a joke (one of those big, obvious, in your face jokes, like a banana peel), but I think he asked the question seriously.  And I think he was proud of his profound insight.  He was probably envisioning an end to all whale hunt opposition, as sane folks everywhere issued a collective “Aha!” when they pondered his question, “Is it because whales aren’t so tasty?” I guess in Australia they have domesticated whales that grow on farms—I’d hate to be the person who had to muck out that stall!  And I guess they don’t teach the concept of the food chain in school.  I’ve never seen a food chain diagram featuring a cow, or a chicken for that matter.

It’s interesting to me that the question the reporter posed was about how whales taste.  When dealing with people who support seal hunting, they like to claim that anti-hunt factions are only up for the fight because seals are “cute”.  The pro-whaling people can’t claim whales are “cute”, so I guess they had a meeting and decided that they’d claim we only want to save whales because we have no invested interest in eating them.  I wonder what ideas they rejected?  “Is it because they don’t want to steal your wallet?”

I normally don’t post about these sort of issue in this blog, but the lack of critical thinking skills exhibited by many people in the public eye, people who should be teaching us and challenging us, is really scary.  I think the real reason people want to hunt whales is because they’re smarter than us, and they’re eventually going to have to take over.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 05/31 at 03:17 AM

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