…if bird flu has it’s way.
Exposing the Big Game
Forget Hunters' Feeble Rationalizations and Trust Your Gut Feelings: Making Sport of Killing Is Not Healthy Human Behavior
…if bird flu has it’s way.
Exposing the Big Game 
Rationalizing arguments of Japanese and a Japanese village killing porpoises/dolphins, and all peoples and the animals they kill and the arguments for doing so that they present: We cannot wait until all species are protected, wild and domestic (farm), before we make efforts to protect some, and efforts are being made to protect the wild in the wilderness, and farm animals and to re-think what we eat. Efforts have to go forward on all fronts and sometimes if not usually start in steps, such as eating less meat and protecting threatened and endangered species. Sentient means capable of feeling pain and emotions, self-aware and capable of making plans and solving problems. If you cannot see, as a human, that other animals feel pain and feel emotions, and think and solve problems, you are a blunt not very sentient being yourself, such as many humans evidently are. Humans may be the cruelest beings in the universe, certainly the known universe; we kill 60 billion animals a year to eat and kill animals for sport and have 1 in 3 animals and plants threatened or endangered. If humans could stand back and look at the “progress of civilization” it would look like a disease is rapidly sweeping around the earth and the disease is us. Regarding us as the most sentient, superior (humans): We elevate ourselves as superior and anthropomorphize our measures of intelligence and sentient, looking through our own glass darkly, and when we do that fail to see the brilliance and intelligent adaptations of other animals, especially animals like the major predators, who we fear so much and which makes some of us crazy, and animals like the porpoise/dolphin and Orca and wolf and bear and lion and the place and value of all animals in the ecology. It is us who are questionable as sentient, and intelligent.
Well said Roger. Your comment reminded me of a speech Philip Wollen made not long ago. You can watch his speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQCe4qEexjc