Saturday, June 16, 2007

Give Me Whale Meat

A whale is said to have a brain of a weight of 4 to 7 kg. Hence some people say that whales are very intelligent creatures which should not be killed by human.
I think, however, the brain of a whale is way small for its whole body. The portion of its brain is much less than 1 %. I cannot believe that it works as an intelligent control center of that big unit.
In addition to that fact, I don’t think that whales have to develop their intelligence in the simple life of drifting in the ocean. They don’t have to exchange emergency messages to each other for avoiding enemies because they are big enough to beat all the creatures around them.
Even if those biggest creatures on the earth are very intelligent, I cannot agree with the opinion that whales should be unconditionally protected. The number of whales is reported lately to be increasing way much and they have begun to threaten the balance of the marine creatures. The catch of sardines in the seas close to Japan decreased critically because whales often maraud the game of the fishermen just in front of their ships. It has a serious influence on the healthy eating habit of Japanese people. Looking back to the history, the whaling ban itself seems to have been the plot planned by the American Empire to make Japanese eat more beef instead of whale bacon.
I prefer healthy whale meat than mad- cow-polluted US beef.