Logic 101, (F). Must learn to think logically and understand
clearly the definitions of terms used. For
example, consider the few sentences: "Humans are predominantly omnivores. We eat meat, therefore we must kill animals. "

We are all omnivores ... which means we are able to
live on a wide variety of diets. Being omnivorous does not mean
we must eat meat, but it implies that we can. The sentence "We eat meat" is simply a false generalisation and is followed
by a false implication. There are plenty of meat eating
animals which don't kill, so either way, the logic flaws
just keep flowing.

The advent of synthetic B12, frees us entirely from any need for
animal products or soil bacteria in our food, in much the
same way that antibiotics reduce the
natural human death rate from infectious diseases. Of course, if
you want to be entirely "natural", you will choose neither. The
US Institute of Medicine recommends ALL people over 50 take b12
supplements ... it doesn't have many of the absorption problems
of the natural product.

The remaining numerous errors in logic are left as an
exercise for other readers.

On the issue of the "cuteness" factor, it's notable that one of the celebrity activists in this campaign obviously doesn't think baby moo-calves are as cute as Flipper, which is why she helped design, and promotes the "Hayden Bag", a calfskin handbag sold by Dooney & Burke.

For a vegetarian who's regularly praised by PeTA, she also has a slightly hypocritical taste for sushi and promoting beauty products tested on animals.

Anyway, I wonder if everyone would think dolphins are so cute if they knew that they're violent sexual predators into pack rape, infanticide and the senseless murder of other species like porpoises?

Clownfish, that's only the muslim and pagan dolphins. The Christian ones don't do that sort of thing apparently.

Geoff is absolutely correct - I did make a logical leap in connecting the actual killing of animals with our insatiable appetite for meat.

Please accept my unreserved apology.

But as I'm not too fond of synthetic B12 or other supplements, could someone please explain where we can find billions of chicken, pigs, cows, goats, fish, crustaceans and other meat forms that have died of natural causes so that we might be able to feed the world without actually killing anything?

That is all.

You are wrong about toxins. Dolphins are predatory animals at the top of the food chain and are therefore much more susceptible to having high levels of toxin buildup than your average fish.

You say that there is no alternative to the current cruel slaughter but you are wrong. People dont "have" to eat dolphins it is a choice they make. The alternative to the current slaughter is to stop eating dolphins.

If there was no humane way to slaughter cows and sheep etc would you still eat them even though they had to suffer greatly for your eating pleasure? It is not like vegans, vegos etc die from lack of meat so your argument that we "need" meat is also wrong.

Your article reads like spin from the Japanese whalemeat industry.

We slaughter our unborn and then complain about cruelty to dolphins in Japan. Women's rights we say but the Japanese should not have any. What a sick view of life our secularist portray.