Oyuki kigan

Originally Posted By: Creek Boy >It does happen to pigs, Pigs are "stunned" then have their underbelly slit from throat to tail and hung upside down.....still very much alive. A slaughterhouse I saw used nail guns on the animals, but i dont really know much about the entire industry though I have tried to learn to teach this to my students. O.K., I hear ya, I dont think there is a difference between animals, yet we humans do look at them differently. Itd be nice if they (all) were killed with one blow. so as long as the dolphins were killed humanely, you'd be cool with it?

Originally Posted By: thursday Eco-Nazis are achieving the opposite of what they thought they were setting out to achieve. Maybe, i'm not sure what the best way of changing cultural values is. We do seem to be slowly progressing in terms of animal rights tho. You can't beat just any animal anymore.

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain What makes dolphins special is all the of things that other animals are not... cute, intelligent, trainable ect. Thats criteria for treating animals humanely? Quote: people see themselves as dolphins... not the Japanese, apparently Quote: no one thinks cows or pigs are cool and no one wants to be like one! It's true that it's all about perception... are you saying that is wrong? Yes. Your arguement is not based in science nor fact,just some very arbitrary cultural values. For example, our culture is fond of dogs. Pigs are just

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Originally Posted By: Black Mountain So which is it? There is nothing to hide or the killings are unpleasant to look at? I think if you watched what happens in any regular abbatoir you would find it unpleasant to look at. I think also the noise of the dolphins would trigger disgust in people, it sounds as if they are screaming. However lambs and pigs also have high pitched screams that would tug on our emotional heart strings yet there is no international furore. I also don't think it helps that the Eco-Nazis come scrambling out of their smelly

Originally Posted By: Black Mountain is nothing to hide or the killings are unpleasant to look at? I've gotta agree with CB on this one... anyone would be upset if the way we slaughtered livestock was the tie it up and then stab it repeatedly until it bled to death. With the sheer amount of animals we breed to keep up demand for meat, that happens more that one would like. Unfortunately, i believe that having a video camera in a livestock facility is more of a rarity than that kind of behavior.

My answer is on your facebook page, i won't repeat it here. I hate what is happening in Taiji too, and i'm glad that you are doing your part in educating people about it. My point is that i don't see how it the callous butchery of dolphin is fundamentally different from how we treat any other animal that is killed for human consumption.

Well, some people do care. I think any animal, especially the ones that die for our appetites, deserve to be treated with a modicum of respect. We have laws against people mistreating pets, and the EU has recently banned seal products from Canada on similar grounds.

Snowing pretty good all day today in Hakuba

So if you haven't heard by now, the Cove is a doc about the annual dolphin cull in the seaside village of Taiji, Japan (and coincidentally, the sister village of Hakuba) You can go see the movie, or even just search youtube for images. And its pretty barbaric. Animals are herded in the cove, metal rode are put into the water and banged around, disrupting the dolphins sonar, and they are either taken alive (for sale to aquariums) or butchered alive (and quite brutally) for meat. There have been protests for a long time, and the village has gotten more and more viligant about hiding

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Just checked a website, that size will easily float someone 160 to over 210 pounds.

that would be fine for you. Originally, the fishes were made to be ridden actually about 2cm shorter than your normal board. I'm 178cm and 65 kg, and should probably be riding a shorter one. But a 161 will float you just fine.

I have an older 161cm Fish that i won't be using anymore. I bought it used a few years ago, with a repaired gouge in the base. Because its only been used on rare powder days, there is very little wear on the board, this one will last you a while. It rides as amazing in deep pow, there is nothing like it. If you don't have a pow stick in your quiver, and would like one cheap, this is your chance. 12,000 yen OBO, and if you want, i can throw in some old Medium Burton Missions (the General Lee colors) Either contact Oyuki kigan by PM (if available) or send an email to classifieds@

Karuizawa is really, really crowded tho. Not great for beginners. A bigger hill might be better. Total beginners will be better off hiking up a bit on an easy slope for the first bit rather than hitting the lifts anyways.

Its a Dinosaurs Will Die 2008/09 Team Model, 158cm. Flexy, poppy, deep sidecut, cambered with a directional shape. Excellent ofr intermediate to advanced riders that want one board to shred the whole mountain. Quality ride as well, designed by couple of pros, Sean Genovose and Jeff Keegan (the guys in the Think Tank films) and made in the US at a factory in Cali. Brand spanking new as well, had asked a friend to get me a rockered twin, but ended up getting me this instead. A great board, but not what i need. Paid about 5 man for it, asking 35,000 yen OBO for this rare and quali

You partially answered my question.

Originally Posted By: RobBright Someone just having fun in the ski park. MASSIVE air. Um, just a question, but when did they start calling them SKI parks? And i saw that guy too, he was killing it

The whales still has a way to go before they even out the score.

Originally Posted By: tripler Those temps match very well with my experience and what I've heard of good and bad seasons over the last 5 years. I agree on any given day a cold temp doesn't mean it's going to snow but averaged over a season it does. I doubt there's ever been a really cold season with a lack of snow. especially in a country where all the weather has to cross an ocean to get here

Snowboarded for 20 years and never really seriously wore one. Never hit my head that hard. Until last season, on a very small kicker that i had been doing all season. Broke some ribs and knocked myself out when i somehow launched wrong. On a simple straight air. I learned my lesson and am wearing one in the park this year.

OMG JAPAN IS SO WEIRD!!!

Climate change is warping weather patterns fast enough to be felt in one human lifetime. I'm not sure there is much 'normal' weather anymore. That being said, we had weather like this last February as well. But that was not a normal year by any standard.

Originally Posted By: spook Oyuki, you seem pretty into pipe/competitive riding, so correct me if I'm wrong about any of the following: Holy moly, how big did Shaun White go? I didn't know how much hype there was, but he went huge! Super stylish, smooth and bigger than everyone else. It was a bummer the Japanese riders blew their second runs, but I didn't think they were nuts enough to place anyway. It seems like inverted tricks, especially those double corks things, are now the norm. Watching dudes do them back to back, and one of them switch was mental. I thought the Finnish dude who c

Um, can we talk about how awesome the halfpipe was?