±12      Why the world love whales
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±12by Dolphin

±11The    international    society    is
practicly  in  WAR  with Norway.  The
reason  is simple:  Should whaling be
allowed   or   banned?   This  sounds
pretty  drastic,  but  if you've been
paying  attention  to  the newspapers
lately,  you couldn't have missed the
debate  that  goes  on.   I'll try to
explain  some  views  on this matter,
both   from  american  and  norwegian
points of view.

In    U.S.A    hardly   anybody   can
understand  the  norwegian  points of
view.     It   is   of   course   the
±12"Disney-Tradition"±11  which  has caused
this  need  to  care  about  animals.
Especially for dogs and large animals
in  the  sea.   Examples for this are
TV-series  like  "Flipper", the movie
"Lassie" etc.

The differences between the U.S.A and
countries  like  Norway,  Island  and
Japan  are  greater  than  you  would
normally  imagine.   In  Norway  this
debate   is   easily   becoming   too
oriented  about  facts,  while in the
U.S.A  the  attitudes  and the values
are much more important.

Organizations  like Greenpeace make a
lot of money by fighting this "global
environmental   war".    The  Central
Intelligence   Agency   in  U.S.A  is
running Greenpeace, thus making a lot
of  cash.   When  they have won their
war  against whales, they will try to
make  a  war  to  protect  some other
animal.

Personally  I'm  positive  about  the
whale-hunting,  because  it's  proven
that there are planty of whales.  The
fact  that whales eat all the fish in
the sea is also a reason.  But untill
the  internation comunity is READY to
listen  to  reason,  I  think  Norway
should  wait.   Saving  a few hundred
unemployed  people  isn't worth being
"freezed"  out  of  the  co-operation
between countries all over the world.

I  find  it  rather strange that some
demonstrants  in  e.g.   U.S.A.   use
banners who say:  "Japan, Iceland and
Norway   are  butchers  of  the  high
seas."   Have   they  forgotten  that
American citizens hunt the whale too?
The eskimoes have hunted whales since
"who  knows when!" Have they got some
global  special-agreement  concerning
the    rights    to    use    natural
resources???

It  would be nice to hear what people
in   countries   that   are   AGAINST
whale-hunting  would  like to say, or
vica   versa  of  course!   Remember:
without     your     respond     this
debate-corner  will  be  of no value.
Therefore  I  strongly recommend that
you   publish   an  article  in  this
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