Whale watchers in Norway got more than they bargained for recently:
While the tourists were admiring one of the great mammals of the sea, a Norwegian whaling boat approached and shot the whale in front of their eyes.
There’s a sort of cultural schizophrenia here, a country profiting both from selling the right to watch whales in all their native grace and also to kill them for profit. Not that much different from our own bizarre contradictions (we eat cows but not horses, chickens but not cats… why?) But weird when two sides of the public mind collide so viscerally.
via Weblogsky
We don’t eat cats because they wouldn’t taste nice. Carnivores rarely do. I wouldn’t object to a bit of horsemeat though.
Perhaps dogs would be a better comparison than cats. Dogs are carnivores, and are eaten in many parts of the world.
Geez. I’m a confirmed carnivore, but leave the damn whales alone! They’re too rare to be hunted for food. (OK, I’d be willing to make an exception for indigenous people hunting them by traditional means…)
Of course, some folks feel differently about those whales… ;->