As usual David, you are so off the mark, you’re not even in the same discussion. And again, I accuse you of practicing your own selective brand of shit-disturbing.

First, as I posted above, she doesn’t have a choice. This is actually a worthless article. SSCS policy is to have a vegan diet on their boats.

Second (and you damn well know this), whaling is a cruel, outdated and unnecessary practice. No one will ever starve because a whale isn’t killed. In fact, it is established fact that the Japanese have to unload large quantities of whale meat on school children because they can’t sell what they catch. The use of domestic animals in the world-wide diet has no similarity to this at all. If you are going to equate whales and dolphins to pigs and chickens then go ahead and add Mountain Gorillas, chimpanzees and rhinos to the list. Hell, throw in dogs and cats to the list too.

Anti-whalers in general, and SSCS in particular, fight against whaling because these are protected species, in what is supposed to be a protected habitat, as stated by the United Nations. The whalers means of killing the whales is cruel and inhumane. The animals suffer to an unacceptable degree. And, speaking personally, any hunting endeavor which mandates the killing of the baby so that killing the parents is that much easier, is beneath contempt of anyone who lives by their conscience.

To demand that anyone who cares about the whaling issue be vegan is childish, argumentative nonsense. Man is designed by nature to eat meat. Like other predators our eyes face forward to focus on our prey, we have canine teeth to help chew meat and our tooth structure and enamel is designed for the same. Vegetarianism and veganism is a choice that we have, in the last 50 years, been given the luxury of making. Cruel and inhumane practices are also a choice. It is up to each individual to make theirs.

As usual Michael, you are so off the mark, you’re not even in the same discussion. And again, I accuse you of practicing your own selective brand of shit-disturbing.

Let’s quote Michele;

“…you can’t be a hypocrite; you can’t be sitting there trying to save animals and then killing them.”

So she says it is hypocritical to be trying to save animals while killing animals to eat. Sounds reasonable.

“I’m not (a vegetarian) but I will have to be because on the ship, it’s a vegan ship…”

So she says when she isn’t trying to save animals she has no problem killing them to eat. Sure sounds hypocritical to me.

Kind of like riding your bike to the protest against Big Oil, but driving a Hummer the rest of the time. If you can’t see that then you have some serious problems. But we all know you understand the point I am making, you just like to argue and call people names because it makes you feel important.

Then you take the opportunity to go on a rant about animal cruelty, which really has nothing to do with Michelle’s hypocrisy.

And throw in some anti-whaling myths. Sorry no dumping of whale meat to schools, Minke aren’t protected they are abundant, the sanctuary was established in violation of the IWC regulations, they don’t kill babies just to make it easier to kill the parent.

Oh and then you decide to lie about what I said. I never said you have to be a vegan if you care about the whaling issue, I never compared domestic animals to whales (oh and some countries do eat dogs and cats). And many people on this website will argue with your statement that “Man is designed by nature to eat meat.” I fully agree with that statement but many people here don’t and I have had discussion with them many times.