Iceland are set to kill 9 Fin Whales an endangered species.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6059564.stm


"There is no market for this meat in Iceland, there is no possibility to export it to Japan; the government appears to have listened to fishermen who are blaming whales for eating all the fish.

"This decision is giving the finger to the international community."


Its all about the economics of Iceland main cash revenue FISH.

We (humans) have to make a living, same as the Whales do!

If the stocks of fish are plentiful in that sea then there are plenty of Whales in that sea too, so man should just stop grabbing everthing and learn to share.

Animals have rights too

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so I have no idea if that is true or not. But hypothetically speaking if it were true and these whales were destroying the fishing industry in Iceland and it meant families going hungry then I would say sorry too bad. Animals only have rights that humans give them. Us being higher on the food chain means exactly that, when it comes down to who lives and who doesn't.

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Increased Refinery Capacity R's: 97% YES. D's: 96% NO

SUMMARY: 91% of House Republicans have historically voted to increase the production of America’s own oil and gas. 86% of House Democrats have historically voted against.

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I don't mean to diverge from the topic, but I have a question. Why do English folks refer to some singular objects as plurals? Like a sports team, a music band, a country... Like right here, Iceland is a country, a singular object, so I think the sentence should be: Iceland is set to kill 9 Fin Whales an endangered species.

So is the reason for referring to objects as such just a habit based on tradition, or does it have some grammatical basis?

Animals have rights too

They do? Did the animals convene someplace and convey rights upon themselves?

The only thing animals do is sleep, get up, kill something, eat it, and go back to sleep. That's it. They have no rights. They are only granted certain protections by governments. And because governments grant those protections, governments can also take them away.

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If people who fish are called fishermen why aren't those who hunt whales called whalemen ?

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Oddly, the same applies to people. The government decides what rights you do and don't have, too. So do you really have them?

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Oddly, the same applies to people.

For some forms of government, yes. But not the US government. Our rights are inalienable. That means they transcend any government authority. That means they do not come from government, but from God. That means no government may grant them, nor may any government take them away.

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That also means animals do not have any rights.

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Well, technically, yes, but that doesn't mean the government wouldn't one day decide our rights are no longer inalienable.

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