25 April 2008
I don't eat poisonous American beef!
Actually, I do not eat beef at all, not even Australian beef.
But American beef is MUST NOT. It is poisoned by mad cow disease.On 23 of April Japanese famous beef rice bowl restaurant franchise, Yoshinoya discovered beef with back-bone imported from Californian beef factory. The backbones are classified as dangerous part that can contain mad cow disease.
American beef import has been restricted since mad cow disease case was reported in the U.S.
Even after the restriction was loosen, a lot of beef with backbones which might contain poisonous disease that can affect human brains were found in the custom checks. Every time that case was reported, the beef import was banned.
The U.S. government insensitively pressured Japanese government to import their poisonous beef whatsoever. Then Japanese government gave in. But the thing is Japanese customers are walking away. Restaurants in Japan advertise that they are not using dangerous American beef. Some supermarkets have stopped selling American beef.
Instead, Australian beef are getting popular because of safety. Australian farmers are not using meat and bone meal to raise their cows. They are using natural grass. Good! The restaurant I often go and eat advertise they use only safe Australian beef. Now they are doing Angus beef steak campaign.
Well, even America tries to threaten Japanese government, people are not that stupid. Not only beef but trust in other American goods is declining.
Remember, we can do boycott campaign of other American goods if we want as long as the U.S. government is insulting us. Just like Chinese are doing to French for Tibet issue. Actually I am doing that to protest America's "Third Atomic Bomb" to our land.
This is the campaign statement.
Stupid America! How ignorant they are! They are not our friends any more.
By the way, I am actually not eating beef at all as previously mentioned. I am becoming vegetarian recently. Not because of religions or love for animals. It is due to health and ecology. Vegetables work fine in my stomach.
Cattle grazing is very harmful to the environment. Amazon forests are disappearing because of grazing. Deforestration and methane breath from cows are causing global warming.
There are estimated 1.5 billions cows on the earth. If the crops for feeding the cows are switched to feed humans, the world starvation problem would be resolved. We are wasting so much food and starving many people in other parts of the world just for the luxury of the good tasting.
It is time we change our lifestyle to save our planet. American lifestyle is most harmful to our planet. Just cut it off!
Answer to Pritcht,
China is not part of Japan, nor Japan is not part of China. Both are separate independent nations. Do more research on the world geographies.
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07 March 2008
Dear Sea Shepherds and animal loving Americans!
Sea Shepherds came back again and attacked Japanese whaling fleets in Antartic Sea. This time Japanese marine patrol personnel shot at them.
I sent Sea Shepherds the following message by email. This is not only for marine hypocrit group but for animal loving Americans.
Did you know grazing cattles is deforesting Amazon forest?
Stop eating hambergers! Eat fish and whales and dophins. They don' t need glazed fields.
Be more smart and scientific rather than being hypocratic!
P.S. If you are really animal rights activisits, stop Rodeo shows, it is hurting cute cows. Don' t say it is your culture! Some culture is not worth going on.
Dear Paikea,
Taking half an hour or 1 minute to kill doesn't make any difference. After all, we are all barbaric in order to survive. Even if you are vegetarian, even plants are living creatures and have emotions, and we are taking lives away from them. But they just stay still. What is arrogant is determine which creature is worth living based on cuteness, or how familiar they are to you.
I don't care how we kill and eat animals because they are just resources to us. All we have to do is keep them sustainable. I don't criticize rodeo in Texas, chicken fighting in Southeast Asia or bullfighting in Spain. It is their cultures and their animals.
Well, Asians should taste better than Caucasions because we are more like herbivorous mammals.
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13 February 2008
Dear Australians: Apology to the Aboriginal people
The Austraian government made an official apology to the Aboriginal people. The Prime Minister said "sorry" to the Stolen generation who were taken away from their families to concentration camps to be assimilated to white values.
I've seen the movie "Rabbit Proof Fence." Three Aboriginal girls forced to live in the camp apart from their parents escaped from the camp to go back their home by tracking down the rabbit proof fence. That was based on a true story. What a terrible thing whites did to them. This Aborigines' sad history was mentioned in the You Tube Video about whaling issue. Some scenes of the video showed Aborinial people and subtitles "Australians treated Aborigines inhumanely." The video was viewed by the Australia's foreign minister. It is now removed. But it was very interesting. The theme was Australians' anti-whaling is racist sentiment against Japanese.
Now we feel like Aborigines who were taken away their identity and culture. What is wrong with hunting whales and eating the meat? You are not only protesting whaling because of the extinction issue. You think whales are special animal that even there were plenty of it in the ocean, anyone should not hunt even one of them.
Your government showed the photos of captured whales being transported to the fleet from the ocean by the anchor. Cruel? Haven't you ever seen the photos of the meat factories? See this video.
Are you extracting meat from cows, pigs and kangaroos without killing them? Are you living in the Disney fantazy? Learn the history of your people, there were Australian whaler ships in the past.
I shall stop eating Australian beef because cows are cute and intelligent. That is how you think.
I do not think your country is civilized nation. You might poison the beef like what Chinese did to us.
It is just fair to decide not to eat the meat imported from the people who criticize what we eat.
The photo of whalemeat sashimi served in a restaurant in Tokyo.
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23 January 2008
Heath Ledger's death shocked me!
This morning, I learned a very shocking news that an Australian actor, Heath Ledger died in his Manhattan apartment.
I've known him since I saw the movie "Brokeback Mountain." His act was superb. He turned out to be very American cowboy. His horse riding was great, too.
I would like to extend my deepest condolence on the sudden death of this great Australian actor.
But sorry, I don't like his home country, Australia because of whaling conflict.
I ate Aussie beef, tonight. But that's it. I do not think I would visit that country in my life.
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09 January 2008
Dear Australians: Japan's Whaling Issue
Maybe not only for Australians, but for Canadians, Americans, Britons and other Caucasion dominated countries except Norweigians and Icelandish.
I've just heard the news this You Tube site attracted enormous attention from Japanese and Australians.
Australian patrol ships were dispatched to watch Japan's whaling in the Antarctic sea.
The video featured how racist Australia's anti-whaling policy is. Kind of radical and provocative.
The scenes of Australians killing Dingos and kangaroos are included.
I don't know which part of it is true and not.
People here in Japan are so concerned that western nations' anti-whaling movement comes from the notion that whales are cute animals rather than endangerness of the whales. Not environmental, more of political and cultural.
Anti-whaling activisits should insist that their act is solely based on endangerness of the species. They seem very emotional, and forcing their own values on others. I hate Green Peace in that sense.
When I was in U.S., some criticized Japan's whaling but none of them say eating whalemeat is barbaric. I remember one American driving instructor said "I want to try if I can." I ate some whale meat when I was small. It was not so delicious but I don't care if others like to eat. You can eat anything you want except humans on the earth.
We eat beef, pork, lambs and so on. They are all cute. Since we conqure the earth, we've got the rights to eat them.
But in one point other than the endangerness issue, I think Japan should refrain from hunting whales in Antarctic Sea. That is sending fishery boats to far, far to the south harms environment because it wastes so much fuel gas. Japanese traditional whale hunting has been done on the coasting areas of the islands.
This Japanese article has the photo of dismantling of the whales hunted from the coastal sea area. The whale is not what is classified as "endangered species" by IWC. We have the right to hunt minke whales, which IWC classified as "endangered" within our territorital seas. Inuits in Alaska, hunt endangered whale species and it is permitted by US government and IWC. But I think that is OK to do. It is their native culture and what they do is within their territorial sea.
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