Eat the Whales!

First, a disclaimer. Usually Free Republic is pretty one-note, with the debate about whether Obama is inept or evil. To be sure, I cherry-pick the craziest and pithiest comments, but they are pretty indicative of the thread.

In this case, Freepers were all over the map. But where is the fun in posting about Freepers trying to save the whales?

Thus, without further ado, Freepers on how we need to eat the whales in order to save them:

aMorePerfectUnion on why whaling is totally fine:

1. Whales that are not in danger of extinction can be harvested responsibly.

2. Whales are big. That doesn’t make them sacred.

3. Whales don’t sing. They make noise.

4. Anthropomorphism isn’t rationale.

5. Hunting whales is no more barbaric than hunting rabbits,
squirrels or deer. Are you also against all other forms of
hunting and fishing?

I presume he also is all for eating dogs, then.

EricT. wants evidence:

I see that there are FReepers who have bought into the whole magical mythical unicornian whale BS that GreenPeace indoctrinated America’s children on for the last 40 years.

Whales are just another mammal.

I’ve seen no evidence that baleen whales are any more intelligent than cattle. Those mystical whale songs don’t really sound much different than the noises I regularly hear from the cattle ranch down the road.

Again, I hope he eats dogs. Also, note the going against scientific consensus re: Cetacean intelligence.

elkfersupper is the thread namer:

Cows aren't endangered species because humans eat them.

If humans would eat more whales, there would be more whales.

Which is why buffalo flourish today!

teeman8r isn't sure any whales are endangered:

because man cannot possibly count all the whales, they must be endangered...

of that i am certain.

/sarc.

my kid loves dinosaurs, alas... he’ll never get to see one... *sniff*

The idea that all whales are the same. Also, extinctions are okay cause we don't need dinosaurs.

Then it gets ugly. Balding_Eagle lashes out at the most vociferous of the pro-whale crowd:

You know, I think we're being scammed here, Dengars story has changed. He first said he got a pet last year and that changed his mind about animals. Then he said he is a male, yet, as some have pointed out, 'he' rants and raves like a schoolgirl.

struggle wants us to think about the diversity:

Good. Japanese have eaten whale since before Christ and them being a developed country does not automatically disqualify them from continuing to consume them like other indigenous tribes.

Plus, whale is delicious.

Does this also hold for cannibals tribes?