As Usual, PETA is Wrong About Whaling
Protecting endangered animals is great, but ignoring history isn't.
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Protecting endangered animals is great, but ignoring history isn't.
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First time I have ever seen you lax in your research. Because I very much doubt their commitment to animal welfare.Robert Rath said:While I don't doubt its commitment to the cause of animal welfare.
Actually, other than the minor differences referenced, which are most likely mutations due to whatever makes their blubber so energetic(probably the Outsider's influence), they look identical to real whales, if a bit bulkier. See attached video for an example.Callate said:It's interesting that NASA apparently still uses whale oil for some purposes, though surely not in the quantities that would have been encountered in industry of the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries.
I do feel compelled once again, however, to point out that there are strong implications in Dishonored that whales of Dunwall are not the creatures we would recognize in our world as "whales". This is not to say that there aren't still parallels between the "whaling" of the fictional world and the real one, but there is a strong degree of fictionalized distance between the two.
Those aren't actually very useful uses. The cosmetics industry is one of the biggest scams in history. Do you really want your date to be covered in whale byproducts, or in the modern era, petrochemical products? Perfumes, lipstick, deodorant, etc.: All of these substances are disgusting and should not go anywhere near a human body. Humans are already beautiful, and slathering on this crap only reduces their natural beauty. The phrase "lipstick on a pig" comes to mind. If you need to "cover up" with such products, you're probably disguising a fundamental health issue (such as diet) that should be treated rather than ignored.Robert Rath said:?Whale products served so many uses that it seems farcical. A young lady in the 19th century might prepare for an evening out by washing with whale oil soap and highlighting her face with cosmetics made from spermaceti - a waxy oil ladled out of the heads of sperm whales. Afterward, she'd cinch herself into a corset and a hoop skirt supported by strips of baleen, the keratin filter feeding plates whales use to catch krill. ?