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To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (48092)	5/17/1999 12:28:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

LOL!Oh, yummy...But seriously folks, culture is the means by which we maintain certain values, and not all cultures are equal. Just because some people eat dog doesn't mean that it is "merely cultural", any more than widows throwing themselves on funeral pyres is "merely cultural". Some things are barbaric, period. Besides, even if there is a contextual precondition, it merely puts the question at a higher order of generality--- so it may be okay to eat dogs, but not true pets, whatever they may be in that locale. As long as there is a kinship with whales perceived by Western man, it makes sense that there should be a reluctance to see them harmed....

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (48092)	5/17/1999 1:28:00 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 67261

Johannes, this is the matter that lorrie and I were discussing. As presented, it doesn't cure my ambivalence: Indian Tribe Kills First Gray Whale In 70 Years May 17 1:00pm ET SEATTLE (Reuters) - Makah Indians killed their first gray whale in more than 70 years Monday, using hand-thrown harpoons and a large-caliber rifle to successfully conclude a weeklong hunt aimed at reinvigorating cultural traditions. Shortly after dawn, members of the Makah whaling team paddled into the Pacific Ocean off the northwestern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in their hand-built dugout canoe and began the kill by throwing an 11-foot (3.3 meter) harpoon. Television pictures showed a tribal motorboat circling the wounded beast and another member of the hunting party firing at least one shot from a .50-caliber rifle. Environmentalists have been outraged by the hunt, which was conducted under a quota granted by the International Whaling Commission in 1997. The tribe has the right to kill up to 20 whales over five years, the National Marine Fisheries Service said. Over the weekend, when tribal members harpooned a whale but failed to wound it seriously, activists used their boats to try to intercede. The Coast Guard, enforcing a 500-yard (500-meter) exclusionary zone around the whalers' boats, arrested several people and confiscated their boats. Makah leaders have said they intended to bring the whale ashore, butcher it and distribute meat and blubber to tribal members. Environmentalists contended the hunt is the beginning of an effort by the tribe to reopen commercial whaling, a charge tribal leaders denied. The Makah tried to land a whale in October 1998 but finally called off the hunt due to deteriorating weather conditions. The hunt resumed last week as the whales clustered off the coast in their spring migration to the north.