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In article <1992Jul28.124428@sicsun.epfl.ch> dubuf@sicsun.epfl.ch (Hans DU BUF) writes:

>Last week or so when someone started the discussion about the Norwegian
>"scientific" need for killing whales, [..]

This was me.

>Yesterday I read in my Dutch newspaper (NRC/Handelsblad) that an
>initiative has led to the collection of 2,500,000 signatures from 63
>countries agaist Spanish bullfights, and that these have been offered to
>some Spanish representative.
>Unfortunately, I have missed this initiative, else it would be 2,500,001.

Very noble from you to be against bullfights, I'm also against. But --
pleeease, don't confuse bulls with whales. It is not helpful for either
if you put in the same discussion. I'm against bullfights because this is
killing for (some unnatural) pleasure, and I'm against whale killing since
at least some of the whale species (dolphins and orcas) are intelligent AND
nobody really needs to kill/eat whales: Norwegians, Japanese, Icelanders,
and Faroeer Islanders have enough fish, beef, pork, lamb, chicken, etc.

Another interesting point MIGHT well be that some whalers perhaps think of
themselves as quasi-matadors or some kind of "heroic sportsmen". Since 
whales don't even try to defend themselves (contrary to bulls), this is 
totally misleading -- whale killing is also coward and dangerous only for 
stupid whalers.
--
 Hartmut Frommert, Physics, Univ of Constance, | + Whale killing is murder. +
 P.O.Box 55 60, D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany     | + Eat whale killers.       +
 E-Mail: <phfrom@dknkurz1.bitnet> or <phfrom@nyx.uni-konstanz.de>
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