Mmmmm, yummy, Soylent Green?

I totally agree with you SPINDOC - often we Australians seek to mind everybody else's business but our own.

Sure we're a big country in terms of the sheer size of our land mass, but in most other ways, we simply have little real influence. And what influence we do possess, it's certainly not commensurate with the size of that land mass.

Compared to the economic and manufacturing dynamism of South Korea we're pretty impotent I reckon. Gosh, we can't even enforce and protect our own borders - we've virtually No manufacturing base at all. And most other countries in our region laugh at us, with our constant meddling in their affairs.

It's my humble opinion we should first, put our collective head(s) down, and work at fixing all our ills. And those ills, to which I refer, they're (sadly) legion in number.

AND as SPINDOC says, mind our own 'freakin' business first !

Gillard will have to be careful where she goes swimming from now on, so maybe her opposition to whaling has a personal basis.

no one has ever been able to put up a logical reason why its okay for our first people to eat roo while Japanese are demonised for eating whale meat.

In a series of auctions this year, the japanese government organisation that markets whale meat sold only a quarter of the 1200 tonnes of whale hunted last year, leaving 909 tonnes unsold. On top of unsold meat from previous hunts, this brings to 4700 tonnes the total amount of whale stockpiled in Japan.

The failure to sell the whale meat underlines what some environmentalists believe is the strongest and most practical argument against whaling: that not only is it cruel, unethical and ecologically damaging, it is also economically unsustainable.

At a time when Japan's electricity grid is facing blackouts after the Fukushima nuclear disaster last year, industrial refrigerators are preserving hundreds of whale carcasses that no one wants to buy.

95% of Japanese never or rarely eat whale meat According to the Japanese Hamburger Association, Japanese people are 40 times more likely to eat hamburgers than they are to eat whale meat.

Spindoc, thanks for the reminder; I’ve got to see Soylent Green. It’s all about overpopulation, dystopia, chronic food shortages and food made from human corpses. Right up my alley!!

So why have I never seen it? ( :>?