Japan's Solution to the Global Food Crisis: Eat Whales

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/10/14/japans-solution-global-food-crisis-eat-more-whale?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2014-10-14


The country's whaling association posts a video promoting the hunting of the endangered marine mammals.


Video: http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/10/14/japans-solution-global-food-crisis-eat-more-whale?cmpid=longtailshare


October 14, 2014 By David Kirby

David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012.


If we want to feed the planet and save marine life, we should kill and eat more whales, according to an unusual video produced by the Japan Whaling Association.

Titled “You’re still against eating whale?” the video was uploaded to JWA’s YouTube site and has drawn the scorn of marine mammal experts.

The animated video, with soft guitar music and narration by a woman with an American accent, begins by warning that the world’s population is exploding while farmland is shrinking.

“The ocean, covering three-fourths of the planet, is an essential source of protein,” the narrator says. “Whaling plays an effective role in solving this problem.”

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[dhill926]

1. I would say, not Japan's solution...

but the Japan Whaling Association's solution....and reprehensible and shortsighted to say the least....

[KurtNYC]

2. there is no global food crisis

there is a glut of corn and soy and wheat and....

http://online.wsj.com/articles/grain-soybean-futures-fall-as-usda-ramps-up-crop-projections-1410454858

[rogerashton]

3. in 10,000 AD,

when the Japanese, like all other twentieth century nations, were extinct, a child studying for his prehistory exam asked his mother, "Who were the Japanese?"

"Oh, they were the greedy little people who gobbled up all the whales."