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		<title>By: Daruma Tokyo Japan</title>
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		<description>WHALERS &amp; PRO-WHALERS ARE OFTEN RACIST.

Anti-Whalers are less often racist.

The person cheering Whaling is AGAINST Japan &amp; hurts Japanese people.

The person Stopping Whaling is the FRIEND of Japan &amp; its people.


WHALE MEAT CONTAINS METHYL MERCURIC POISON!
MERCURY causes brain tissue damage. Whale meat is loaded with amounts so toxic, that it is 10 to 1,000 times more infested with Mercury than seafood and fish. Mercury such as in whale meat, causes organ damage. Anyone eating whale meat can have their future children born deformed.

Any person ENCOURAGING Japanese citizens to eat whale meat, is mass-poisoning tens of thousands of Japanese people, their families, and children, and hurting Japan.

Any person working to STOP a tiny faction of whale killers from  pushing Japanese people &amp; children to eat whale meat, is SAVING Japanese people! Anti-whalers are protecting Japanese children. Everyone who is AGAINST whaling is the friend of the majority of the Japanese people. 

Firstly, it is possible for any already-inherent racist, to latch on to *any* issue, no matter what it is. For example, there exist prejudicial Japanese who are against China who pretend to support Tibet, not because they want to actually help Tibet, but because they know it is a severe sore spot for China, and they can exploit it and use the otherwise kind Tibet issue in order to say bad things about Chinese people.

The question is, whether the exact act of stopping whaling itself is racist, and the answer is No, it&#039;s actually beneficial for all wonderful Japanese people to stop whaling.
 
The act of anti-whaling itself is actually not against Japan, the act of stopping whaling is actually pro Japan! 

WHALE MEAT IS POISON!

Any person working to put a stop to a small faction of killers who even tried to put whale meat contaminated with Methyl Mercuric poison into Japanese children&#039;s school lunches, is not only NOT racist, that anti-whaling advocate is not only saving whales, that person is saving tens of thousands of good Japanese people, that person is along WITH 96% of Japanese people who DONT eat whale meat in the first place, and that anti-whaling person is helping Japan by cleaning the shame that whalers bring upon their own country, off of Japan&#039;s good name, and helping the entire good Nation of Japan to shine again.


NEXT...

Any PRO-WHALER who *tries* to accuse other countries of being racist, IS the racist. 

First, this is not a &quot;one country against some other country&quot; issue! Every country has both good and bad people in it! This is a matter of &quot;all the good people, of EVERY country... against all the bad killers, of EVERY country&quot;. 

For example, it is ERRONEOUS to go around as if it is somehow &quot;australians&quot; against the &quot;japanese&quot;!-that is false! It&#039;s whalers who try to assert this! Not anti-whalers. And what they do, is then begin to employ things like: &quot;hey, you kill kanagroos and dont allow US to kill whales--you are racist!&quot;--That is False!

Because it is NOT 1 country versus some other one! That debunked notion simply leads back &amp; forth in a &quot;you did this. oh, yeah?? well, you did that!&quot; tennis match where everyone loses.

No.

Instead, there are good people and bad people in Australia (and every other country), and both good &amp; bad Japanese too! Hopefully the majority of all countries consists of good people, but we all have people in prisons. No country is exempt from that.

So the real situation, is that it is all the people who care about animals, the ones in Australia, the ones in Japan too, the ones all over the world who care, for both animals and people too...AGAINST killers! Killers in ANY country. Australia too, not just Japan.

And therefore the situation now is this... all the good people in Japan, which is the majority, even possibly up to 96% who dont eat whale meat, PLUS all the good people in Australia, plus all the good people from all other countries, against BOTH the Japanese whale killers in Japan, AND AGAINST any and all Kangaroo killers in Australia too!

Real Anti whalers are Not going around cheering kangaroo killers, then scoffing at whalers! That is not the case. The same people who are caring enough to stop whale killing ARE ALSO against kangaroo killers! Even if they are Australian! And that goes for any other situation too! Every instance of this bogus &quot;But (country name here) kills (animal name here)&quot; is now DEBUNKED! That&#039;s false. You can no longer attempt to assert the &quot;hey, Americans CANT tell &quot;us&quot; to stop killing whales, &quot;they&quot; kill cows!&quot;--That is false. Because it is likely to be the very same anti-whalers, in America, who are not FOR but rather AGAINST killing cows. Or pigs, or whatever other argument PRO-WHALERS attempt to falsely use!

It&#039;s that PRO-WHALER who attempts to assert that ALL people of a certain race, or nationality, ALL do it, or ALL think it, or are ALL the same, who is the racist!

It is the person who is caring, the one who feels, understands, and cares enough to try to help an animal, because they can understand, and feel what it may feel, who is more likely to be not racist at all! And they understand that its not ALL the people of a certain race that do something, its not ALL the people inside a certain country that practice something. It&#039;s anti-whalers that have a higher proportion of understanding this, because by definition these are the people who have the capability inside them to feel another&#039;s pain!

It&#039;s the PRO-WHALE-KILLER who doesn&#039;t care, could care less, is more interested in their own benefit and how much money they can get, or who think They are &quot;better&quot; than other animals, and so forth, that are MORE likely to possess the arrogance and lack of capacity for feeling that exemplifies the judging of one&#039;s own superiority over that of one&#039;s fellow man and woman.


And lastly, any PRO-WHALER attempting to declare &quot;racism against Japanese&quot; is wrong by definition! &quot;Japan&quot; is not a race! Japan is a nation! &quot;Asian&quot; is a race! And it&#039;s not &quot;asians&quot; who are whaling! It&#039;s Japan! In fact, &quot;asians&quot; have what could be the greatest proportion of VEGETARIANS IN THE WORLD!

Killing and eating whales is not a &quot;racial&quot; thing! Hardly any other asian countries do it! And &quot;asians&quot; comprise many Hindus, Buddhists, and more, who are vegetarians! India (asian!) has over a billion people! China (asian!) has even more! And there are many many vegetarians among them! :) It&#039;s not &quot;asians&quot; that are killing whales. It&#039;s not even &quot;Japan&quot; or &quot;Japanese&quot; that are killing whales! 96% of Japanese people dont even eat it! And 99.999% of Japan, or over 128 million peopler are NOT whalers by profession! It is ONLY a few hundred, Japanese Whalers, that kill whales in Japan! And likewise not just Japanese whale kilers but whale killers in Iceland, Faroe island Denmark whale killers, North American native whalers, and Norwegian whale killers.

Therefore, anti-whaling is NOT against any particular race. Asian is the race, Japan is not a race, it&#039;s a country. And anti-whalers are FOR the vast majority of asians, and in fact anti-whalers are the friends of 99% of Japan! And anti-whalers are also against the whale killers who are in countries where the whalers consist of a variety of other races! Therefore stopping whaling is not racist. In fact, it&#039;s not even Nationalist, because whale killers are the ones that actually comprise less proportion of a certain country than non-killers,  and can be of any race, and they can be from any Nation.


It is Whalers and Pro-Whalers who try to make people believe that their &quot;whole&quot; country, or &quot;whole race&quot; kill whales. And try to force people to believe that killing whales is what ALL asians do, or its something that ALL Japanese believe in, who are the stereotypers. And it&#039;s pro-whalers, accusing ALL people of a certain other race or country, who have generalised based upon that race or country, using preconceptions and the elements of racism.

It&#039;s PRO-Whalers that are racist.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WHALERS &amp; PRO-WHALERS ARE OFTEN RACIST.</p>
<p>Anti-Whalers are less often racist.</p>
<p>The person cheering Whaling is AGAINST Japan &amp; hurts Japanese people.</p>
<p>The person Stopping Whaling is the FRIEND of Japan &amp; its people.</p>
<p>WHALE MEAT CONTAINS METHYL MERCURIC POISON!<br />
MERCURY causes brain tissue damage. Whale meat is loaded with amounts so toxic, that it is 10 to 1,000 times more infested with Mercury than seafood and fish. Mercury such as in whale meat, causes organ damage. Anyone eating whale meat can have their future children born deformed.</p>
<p>Any person ENCOURAGING Japanese citizens to eat whale meat, is mass-poisoning tens of thousands of Japanese people, their families, and children, and hurting Japan.</p>
<p>Any person working to STOP a tiny faction of whale killers from  pushing Japanese people &amp; children to eat whale meat, is SAVING Japanese people! Anti-whalers are protecting Japanese children. Everyone who is AGAINST whaling is the friend of the majority of the Japanese people. </p>
<p>Firstly, it is possible for any already-inherent racist, to latch on to *any* issue, no matter what it is. For example, there exist prejudicial Japanese who are against China who pretend to support Tibet, not because they want to actually help Tibet, but because they know it is a severe sore spot for China, and they can exploit it and use the otherwise kind Tibet issue in order to say bad things about Chinese people.</p>
<p>The question is, whether the exact act of stopping whaling itself is racist, and the answer is No, it&#8217;s actually beneficial for all wonderful Japanese people to stop whaling.</p>
<p>The act of anti-whaling itself is actually not against Japan, the act of stopping whaling is actually pro Japan! </p>
<p>WHALE MEAT IS POISON!</p>
<p>Any person working to put a stop to a small faction of killers who even tried to put whale meat contaminated with Methyl Mercuric poison into Japanese children&#8217;s school lunches, is not only NOT racist, that anti-whaling advocate is not only saving whales, that person is saving tens of thousands of good Japanese people, that person is along WITH 96% of Japanese people who DONT eat whale meat in the first place, and that anti-whaling person is helping Japan by cleaning the shame that whalers bring upon their own country, off of Japan&#8217;s good name, and helping the entire good Nation of Japan to shine again.</p>
<p>NEXT&#8230;</p>
<p>Any PRO-WHALER who *tries* to accuse other countries of being racist, IS the racist. </p>
<p>First, this is not a &#8220;one country against some other country&#8221; issue! Every country has both good and bad people in it! This is a matter of &#8220;all the good people, of EVERY country&#8230; against all the bad killers, of EVERY country&#8221;. </p>
<p>For example, it is ERRONEOUS to go around as if it is somehow &#8220;australians&#8221; against the &#8220;japanese&#8221;!-that is false! It&#8217;s whalers who try to assert this! Not anti-whalers. And what they do, is then begin to employ things like: &#8220;hey, you kill kanagroos and dont allow US to kill whales&#8211;you are racist!&#8221;&#8211;That is False!</p>
<p>Because it is NOT 1 country versus some other one! That debunked notion simply leads back &amp; forth in a &#8220;you did this. oh, yeah?? well, you did that!&#8221; tennis match where everyone loses.</p>
<p>No.</p>
<p>Instead, there are good people and bad people in Australia (and every other country), and both good &amp; bad Japanese too! Hopefully the majority of all countries consists of good people, but we all have people in prisons. No country is exempt from that.</p>
<p>So the real situation, is that it is all the people who care about animals, the ones in Australia, the ones in Japan too, the ones all over the world who care, for both animals and people too&#8230;AGAINST killers! Killers in ANY country. Australia too, not just Japan.</p>
<p>And therefore the situation now is this&#8230; all the good people in Japan, which is the majority, even possibly up to 96% who dont eat whale meat, PLUS all the good people in Australia, plus all the good people from all other countries, against BOTH the Japanese whale killers in Japan, AND AGAINST any and all Kangaroo killers in Australia too!</p>
<p>Real Anti whalers are Not going around cheering kangaroo killers, then scoffing at whalers! That is not the case. The same people who are caring enough to stop whale killing ARE ALSO against kangaroo killers! Even if they are Australian! And that goes for any other situation too! Every instance of this bogus &#8220;But (country name here) kills (animal name here)&#8221; is now DEBUNKED! That&#8217;s false. You can no longer attempt to assert the &#8220;hey, Americans CANT tell &#8220;us&#8221; to stop killing whales, &#8220;they&#8221; kill cows!&#8221;&#8211;That is false. Because it is likely to be the very same anti-whalers, in America, who are not FOR but rather AGAINST killing cows. Or pigs, or whatever other argument PRO-WHALERS attempt to falsely use!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s that PRO-WHALER who attempts to assert that ALL people of a certain race, or nationality, ALL do it, or ALL think it, or are ALL the same, who is the racist!</p>
<p>It is the person who is caring, the one who feels, understands, and cares enough to try to help an animal, because they can understand, and feel what it may feel, who is more likely to be not racist at all! And they understand that its not ALL the people of a certain race that do something, its not ALL the people inside a certain country that practice something. It&#8217;s anti-whalers that have a higher proportion of understanding this, because by definition these are the people who have the capability inside them to feel another&#8217;s pain!</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the PRO-WHALE-KILLER who doesn&#8217;t care, could care less, is more interested in their own benefit and how much money they can get, or who think They are &#8220;better&#8221; than other animals, and so forth, that are MORE likely to possess the arrogance and lack of capacity for feeling that exemplifies the judging of one&#8217;s own superiority over that of one&#8217;s fellow man and woman.</p>
<p>And lastly, any PRO-WHALER attempting to declare &#8220;racism against Japanese&#8221; is wrong by definition! &#8220;Japan&#8221; is not a race! Japan is a nation! &#8220;Asian&#8221; is a race! And it&#8217;s not &#8220;asians&#8221; who are whaling! It&#8217;s Japan! In fact, &#8220;asians&#8221; have what could be the greatest proportion of VEGETARIANS IN THE WORLD!</p>
<p>Killing and eating whales is not a &#8220;racial&#8221; thing! Hardly any other asian countries do it! And &#8220;asians&#8221; comprise many Hindus, Buddhists, and more, who are vegetarians! India (asian!) has over a billion people! China (asian!) has even more! And there are many many vegetarians among them! <img src='http://this.org/magazine/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  It&#8217;s not &#8220;asians&#8221; that are killing whales. It&#8217;s not even &#8220;Japan&#8221; or &#8220;Japanese&#8221; that are killing whales! 96% of Japanese people dont even eat it! And 99.999% of Japan, or over 128 million peopler are NOT whalers by profession! It is ONLY a few hundred, Japanese Whalers, that kill whales in Japan! And likewise not just Japanese whale kilers but whale killers in Iceland, Faroe island Denmark whale killers, North American native whalers, and Norwegian whale killers.</p>
<p>Therefore, anti-whaling is NOT against any particular race. Asian is the race, Japan is not a race, it&#8217;s a country. And anti-whalers are FOR the vast majority of asians, and in fact anti-whalers are the friends of 99% of Japan! And anti-whalers are also against the whale killers who are in countries where the whalers consist of a variety of other races! Therefore stopping whaling is not racist. In fact, it&#8217;s not even Nationalist, because whale killers are the ones that actually comprise less proportion of a certain country than non-killers,  and can be of any race, and they can be from any Nation.</p>
<p>It is Whalers and Pro-Whalers who try to make people believe that their &#8220;whole&#8221; country, or &#8220;whole race&#8221; kill whales. And try to force people to believe that killing whales is what ALL asians do, or its something that ALL Japanese believe in, who are the stereotypers. And it&#8217;s pro-whalers, accusing ALL people of a certain other race or country, who have generalised based upon that race or country, using preconceptions and the elements of racism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s PRO-Whalers that are racist.</p>
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		<title>By: Daruma Tokyo Japan</title>
		<link>http://this.org/magazine/2009/05/05/whaling-culture-war/comment-page-1/#comment-472</link>
		<dc:creator>Daruma Tokyo Japan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whaling is NOT the tradition or culture of JAPAN!

EATING MEAT WAS *BANNED* IN JAPAN FOR OVER 1,200 YEARS!


In 676 AD the 40th Emperor Tenmu banned eating meat.

You read right! It is the act of NOT eating meat, not eating it, that is the actual traditional culture of Japan!

The eating of meat was looked DOWN upon! And in fact, the act of eating meat was actually BANNED by the Emperor Tenmu in the year 676 A.D.! 

This Ban against eating meat existed as Japanese culture for more than 1,200 years!

The entire lineage of Japanese Emperors continued bans on varieties of meat for over a millennium!

In 721 AD the 44th Emperor Genshou forbade killing animals.
In 725 AD the 45th Emperor Shoumou forbade the killing of animals.
In 752 AD the 46th Emperor Kouken forbade the killing of animals.
In 1127 AD the 75th Emperor Sutoku forbade the killing of all animals.
In 1188 AD 82nd Emperor Gotoba forbade the killing of animals.

and more!

NOT-EATING meat is is the thousand-year+ culture &amp; tradition of Japan, which remained unbroken all the way up until foreign contact in the 1800&#039;s. Eating meat is not Japanese tradition, eating meat is BREAKING Japanese tradition.

Specific instances of the eating of meat, or specific acts of the killing of whales, whether the act was depicted thousands of years ago or not does Not mean that eating whale meat was a &quot;proud Japanese tradition&quot; any more than finding log accounts of acts of murder happening 6,000 years ago in Europe, or finding depictions of human crucifixions means that murder &amp; crucifixion are some how &quot;fine European traditions&quot; that should be continued today.

The mere fact that &#039;some&#039; people &#039;did&#039; it, doesn&#039;t mean something is some kind of great tradition! Just like instances of murder have been recorded happening thousands of years ago, and &#039;some&#039; people did it, doesn&#039;t mean that is a &#039;good&#039; part of that culture, to be merrily perpetuated today.

-

In fact, the real culture and tradition of Japan for over 1,000 years was NOT to kill and eat animals, even held so strongly that it was set down by Emporial decree!

In Japan, the emperor was not simply regarded as some &#039;leader&#039;, the EMPEROR was regarded as divine! It means the act of NOT eating meat was set down as the National principle tradition across the entire nation, for over 12 centuries by the highest leaders of Japan whom the Japanese people regarded so highly they hought of them as a GOD!

-

The actual time when the eating of whale meat was most popularized was only AFTER WORLD WAR 2! When Japan was conquered, and forced to surrendur by westerners after World War 2!

It was Western Generals who introduced the act of eating pieces of whale meat to those who existed in the circumstances after the bombings and malnourishment in the 1940&#039;s, at the time of World War 2!

The popularization of eating whale meat was introduced by WESTERNERS!

Eating whale meat is a FOREIGN tradition!

And 1,200 years of Japanese culture and tradtion beats something that has been happening for only 60 and forced on people and popularized in Japan by Gaijin!


--

So the Whale killer, the person who is touting the eating of whale meat, is not For apanese tradition, and the whalers are not For Japanese culture, the person cheering the eating of whale meat is touting something that is AGAINST Japanese culture, the eating of meat in defiance of over 1,200 years of Japanese Emporial Law, and in breach of the will of the Japanese leader who is regarded as a GOD!

It is Japanese Whalers that BETRAY Japan.

Whalers are the ones sabotaging and going against Japanese culture, and trying to force on people something that was mainly popularized in Japan by Foreigners forcing it on Japan!


It is ANTI-WHALERS, and all good 96% of Japanese people who dont even eat whale meat, and SSCS and anyone stopping whaling that is upholding the most highly regarded tradition and culture of Japan. 

It is PRO-WHALERS who betray, undermine, and stain 1,200 years of culture and tradition of Japan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whaling is NOT the tradition or culture of JAPAN!</p>
<p>EATING MEAT WAS *BANNED* IN JAPAN FOR OVER 1,200 YEARS!</p>
<p>In 676 AD the 40th Emperor Tenmu banned eating meat.</p>
<p>You read right! It is the act of NOT eating meat, not eating it, that is the actual traditional culture of Japan!</p>
<p>The eating of meat was looked DOWN upon! And in fact, the act of eating meat was actually BANNED by the Emperor Tenmu in the year 676 A.D.! </p>
<p>This Ban against eating meat existed as Japanese culture for more than 1,200 years!</p>
<p>The entire lineage of Japanese Emperors continued bans on varieties of meat for over a millennium!</p>
<p>In 721 AD the 44th Emperor Genshou forbade killing animals.<br />
In 725 AD the 45th Emperor Shoumou forbade the killing of animals.<br />
In 752 AD the 46th Emperor Kouken forbade the killing of animals.<br />
In 1127 AD the 75th Emperor Sutoku forbade the killing of all animals.<br />
In 1188 AD 82nd Emperor Gotoba forbade the killing of animals.</p>
<p>and more!</p>
<p>NOT-EATING meat is is the thousand-year+ culture &amp; tradition of Japan, which remained unbroken all the way up until foreign contact in the 1800&#8217;s. Eating meat is not Japanese tradition, eating meat is BREAKING Japanese tradition.</p>
<p>Specific instances of the eating of meat, or specific acts of the killing of whales, whether the act was depicted thousands of years ago or not does Not mean that eating whale meat was a &#8220;proud Japanese tradition&#8221; any more than finding log accounts of acts of murder happening 6,000 years ago in Europe, or finding depictions of human crucifixions means that murder &amp; crucifixion are some how &#8220;fine European traditions&#8221; that should be continued today.</p>
<p>The mere fact that &#8217;some&#8217; people &#8216;did&#8217; it, doesn&#8217;t mean something is some kind of great tradition! Just like instances of murder have been recorded happening thousands of years ago, and &#8217;some&#8217; people did it, doesn&#8217;t mean that is a &#8216;good&#8217; part of that culture, to be merrily perpetuated today.</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>In fact, the real culture and tradition of Japan for over 1,000 years was NOT to kill and eat animals, even held so strongly that it was set down by Emporial decree!</p>
<p>In Japan, the emperor was not simply regarded as some &#8216;leader&#8217;, the EMPEROR was regarded as divine! It means the act of NOT eating meat was set down as the National principle tradition across the entire nation, for over 12 centuries by the highest leaders of Japan whom the Japanese people regarded so highly they hought of them as a GOD!</p>
<p>-</p>
<p>The actual time when the eating of whale meat was most popularized was only AFTER WORLD WAR 2! When Japan was conquered, and forced to surrendur by westerners after World War 2!</p>
<p>It was Western Generals who introduced the act of eating pieces of whale meat to those who existed in the circumstances after the bombings and malnourishment in the 1940&#8217;s, at the time of World War 2!</p>
<p>The popularization of eating whale meat was introduced by WESTERNERS!</p>
<p>Eating whale meat is a FOREIGN tradition!</p>
<p>And 1,200 years of Japanese culture and tradtion beats something that has been happening for only 60 and forced on people and popularized in Japan by Gaijin!</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>So the Whale killer, the person who is touting the eating of whale meat, is not For apanese tradition, and the whalers are not For Japanese culture, the person cheering the eating of whale meat is touting something that is AGAINST Japanese culture, the eating of meat in defiance of over 1,200 years of Japanese Emporial Law, and in breach of the will of the Japanese leader who is regarded as a GOD!</p>
<p>It is Japanese Whalers that BETRAY Japan.</p>
<p>Whalers are the ones sabotaging and going against Japanese culture, and trying to force on people something that was mainly popularized in Japan by Foreigners forcing it on Japan!</p>
<p>It is ANTI-WHALERS, and all good 96% of Japanese people who dont even eat whale meat, and SSCS and anyone stopping whaling that is upholding the most highly regarded tradition and culture of Japan. </p>
<p>It is PRO-WHALERS who betray, undermine, and stain 1,200 years of culture and tradition of Japan.</p>
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		<title>By: Daruma Tokyo Japan</title>
		<link>http://this.org/magazine/2009/05/05/whaling-culture-war/comment-page-1/#comment-471</link>
		<dc:creator>Daruma Tokyo Japan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Whaling, killing whales &amp; eating them is Not Japanese Culture!


Japan is BUDDHIST and Shinto! Japanese Buddhist and Shinto culture and tradition hold that all life is sacred and spirits are in all things!

Though not mandated, it is Vegetarianism, NOT eating meat that comprises one of the More highly regarded basic principles of Buddhist culture and tradition! 

Buddhism &amp; Shinto is the culture and tradition of the majority of Japan! Killing whales and eating whale meat is AGAINST the tradition and culture of JAPAN!


&quot;If a person does not harm any living being, and does not kill or cause others to kill-that person is a true spiritual practitioner. -Dhammapada (The Buddha!) 

&quot;In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.&quot; -His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama!

&quot;The Bodhisattva, whose nature is Compassion, is not to eat any meat&quot; For fear of causing terror to living beings let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain Compassion, refrain from eating flesh.&quot; -Lankavatara Sutra (The Buddha)


Japan is over 80-90% Buddhist and Shinto. Anyone slaughtering and eating whales for their meat when not out of necessity is considered a BAD BUDDHIST. For it is the act of NOT killing and NOT eating animals is the more highly regarded tradition &amp; culture of the MAJORITY OF JAPAN!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Whaling, killing whales &amp; eating them is Not Japanese Culture!</p>
<p>Japan is BUDDHIST and Shinto! Japanese Buddhist and Shinto culture and tradition hold that all life is sacred and spirits are in all things!</p>
<p>Though not mandated, it is Vegetarianism, NOT eating meat that comprises one of the More highly regarded basic principles of Buddhist culture and tradition! </p>
<p>Buddhism &amp; Shinto is the culture and tradition of the majority of Japan! Killing whales and eating whale meat is AGAINST the tradition and culture of JAPAN!</p>
<p>&#8220;If a person does not harm any living being, and does not kill or cause others to kill-that person is a true spiritual practitioner. -Dhammapada (The Buddha!) </p>
<p>&#8220;In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.&#8221; -His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama!</p>
<p>&#8220;The Bodhisattva, whose nature is Compassion, is not to eat any meat&#8221; For fear of causing terror to living beings let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain Compassion, refrain from eating flesh.&#8221; -Lankavatara Sutra (The Buddha)</p>
<p>Japan is over 80-90% Buddhist and Shinto. Anyone slaughtering and eating whales for their meat when not out of necessity is considered a BAD BUDDHIST. For it is the act of NOT killing and NOT eating animals is the more highly regarded tradition &amp; culture of the MAJORITY OF JAPAN!</p>
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		<title>By: Daruma Tokyo Japan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Daruma Tokyo Japan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>WHALING IS *NOT* JAPANESE CULTURE!

96% of Japanese people DO NOT eat whale meat

Asahi Newspaper, National News &amp; television media of Japan, reports that &#039;96% of Japanese people DO NOT regularly eat whale meat.&#039; - Asahi News Service - TOKYO JAPAN.</description>
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<p>96% of Japanese people DO NOT eat whale meat</p>
<p>Asahi Newspaper, National News &amp; television media of Japan, reports that &#8216;96% of Japanese people DO NOT regularly eat whale meat.&#8217; &#8211; Asahi News Service &#8211; TOKYO JAPAN.</p>
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		<title>By: paul whalen</title>
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		<dc:creator>paul whalen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nicely put article-lottta work. Your hook is one I can empathize with, and so most others will too- its right said right. The sovereignty idea. Take it a step further kid. Peter says yer smart enough and if you do find yourself in the political meat grinder, just remember,you can blame that on yer parents. I blame your parents for convinceing me I could do stuff that made nothing but trouble for me. Yes, they so casually suggested , I was invinceable and for a while , I was. The reality of losing your self to a cause is a &quot;priority&quot; , I am glad you have taken that into account. Political appointment - Your looking at the brass ring. That is the training ground this environmnetal movement has failed to win. I suppose politics is as much of an abyse as ever there could be.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nicely put article-lottta work. Your hook is one I can empathize with, and so most others will too- its right said right. The sovereignty idea. Take it a step further kid. Peter says yer smart enough and if you do find yourself in the political meat grinder, just remember,you can blame that on yer parents. I blame your parents for convinceing me I could do stuff that made nothing but trouble for me. Yes, they so casually suggested , I was invinceable and for a while , I was. The reality of losing your self to a cause is a &#8220;priority&#8221; , I am glad you have taken that into account. Political appointment &#8211; Your looking at the brass ring. That is the training ground this environmnetal movement has failed to win. I suppose politics is as much of an abyse as ever there could be.</p>
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		<title>By: EcoChamber #8: Michaëlle Jean&#8217;s misleading seal feast : This.org</title>
		<link>http://this.org/magazine/2009/05/05/whaling-culture-war/comment-page-1/#comment-22</link>
		<dc:creator>EcoChamber #8: Michaëlle Jean&#8217;s misleading seal feast : This.org</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] this story is the same old story; Japan too claims to be defending its &#8220;culture&#8221; with its annual Southern Ocean whale hunt of nearly a thousand whales, including endangered [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Nick Zarzycki</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nick Zarzycki</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;The Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo, along with many of its supporters, argue that the annual whale hunt by Japan is the country’s national heritage&quot;

Indeed, many Japanese remember how, centuries ago, fishermen would go out to hunt with nothing more than their spears and 500-foot factory ships.</description>
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<p>Indeed, many Japanese remember how, centuries ago, fishermen would go out to hunt with nothing more than their spears and 500-foot factory ships.</p>
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		<title>By: Michael Williams</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Williams</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 05:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations Emily!  Great article that outlines the insane argument for this insane annual practice of execution.   </description>
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		<title>By: The political economy of killing blubbery animals : This.org</title>
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		<dc:creator>The political economy of killing blubbery animals : This.org</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] just posted Emily Hunter&#8217;s feature story from the May-June 2009 issue, because it has some bearing on the current controversy over the [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] just posted Emily Hunter&#8217;s feature story from the May-June 2009 issue, because it has some bearing on the current controversy over the [...]</p>
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