[Lady-Loki]

I choose not to watch the videos because I know what is on them, I have seen similar in the past and don’t care to see it again. But then again, do we know if these people use the meat for food? And isn’t the whale blubber used for heat in those regions? Even if they kill for the skin, is that their source of income? Do we protest alligator killed for skin? What about calfskin wallets? And let’s not forget that deer killed for his rack or that mounted fish on someone’s den wall. The thing is; different cultures view these things differently.

But while these images incite anger there are other atrocities in the way of human rights that are everyday occurrences all over this earth. We don’t have video (thank goodness), but if you search the internet you will find plenty on “Honor Killings” where young girls and women are killed to regain a family’s honor after the victim had been raped, while, in most cases there is no action taken against the rapist.

There are cases where women have actually (and this is within the last 10 – 20 years) been sentenced to be raped as compensation for a crime a different member of her family committed.

And look up information on Afghanistan girls as young as 10 being given into marriage by their fathers to pay a debt to drug traffickers when their poppy crops are destroyed (by man or nature).

And I won’t even get into details on FGM practiced in Somalia (and sadly, even among Somali women living in England).

These women and children are victims for less than meat on someone in the Antarctic’s table or blubber to make oil for lamps and heaters.

I’m not saying I approve of the killing of whales or seals, I’m just saying there are so many other atrocities against women and children on this earth that garner my anger.