This week it's getting much cooler in Tokyo. I like a wild
duck with soba noodle in hot soup, which is called "Kamo Namban (鴨南蛮)" in Japanese, so I can't wait
for the best season for gibier.
I'm reading the book "Leviathan: The History of Whaling
in America", which is really interesting. Now, I read about Nantucket Island
in the age of the American Revolutionary War. At the present day Nantucket Island
is a resort for celebrities, but at that time it was the center of world's
whaling industry, where Ishmael embarked captain Ahab's whale ship in
Moby-Dick. While the American Revolutionary War, most Nantucketers were
interested in continuation of their whaling and trying to keep neutrality in
order to avoid attacks of English navy and pirates on their whale ships.
When I took a business trip to Deli, India, I was surprised
with "stray cows" walking around the streets with their own will. Although
I knew that the cow was a holy animal for Hindus, "seeing is
believing." I was more surprised that I found MacDonald's in Deli. What
was a hamburger shop in India? I rushed into MacDonald's, and I found that they
sold croquettes with buns.
Please imagine that a band of Indian anti-beef activists crowds
at the countryside in New Zealand and let cattle free from livestock farmers.
From my stand point of view, it's just the same as anti-whaling activists in
Daichi, Japan, where dolphins traditionally have been caught and eaten.
If it isn't cruel that cattle is brought up to be killed and
eaten, why it would be cruel that Daichi people kill and eat dolphins or
whales? Because dolphins and whales are intellectual? How about cattle? Because
they are wild? How about gibier?
We can't live without killing and eating living beings. Even
vegans can't live without relying on the people who kill and eat living beings.
I think that first of all we should look strait at this fact.
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