06.19.06
It’s (almost) whale hunting season.
A vast yea landlubber. Ahoy mateys.
No it’s not International Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19), it’s whale hunting season (almost).
In fact a slim majority of 33 to 32 votes for bringing back whale hunting almost passed. It needed a 75% majority. The majority seem to want whale hunting back.
Call me Ahab, as I’m off to find me my white whale.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t condone extinction of a species, but any animal or plant is fair game in my book as long as they are a renewable resource that is renewed (like planting trees).
I offer a solution to the problem of whale hunting, whale farming. I reckon if you want to hunt whales, grow them yourselves. Just like any other animal or plant. Countries could grow whales, insert tracking devices (kind of like branding) into the whales when born, and only hunt farmed whales. You could pen the whales up, but letting them roam free would be more fun.
You could then capitalise on it even more by offering whale hunts. People could pay to go hunt whales. Follow them around with their tracking devices, and then mount the head in their den. Kidding on that last bit, you’d need a big den.
I wonder what whale meat tastes like? I reckon you could make a big steak out of them. Mmmm delicious.
In fact, according to the wikipedia articles on whales we could be doing them an advantage in speeding up their natural selection to make them smarter.
By contrast, the whale has faced no such environmental stimuli to brain evolution. Whales live in an unchanging and benign environment with few natural predators.
I for one reckon we should bring back whale hunting, and it seems the majority agree. Now we just have to change the minds of the holdouts