【コラム】日本の食文化を尊ぶ：私が「イルカの非人間的人格を認めよう」キャンペーンの署名に応じない理由

My full response:

I'm sorry, No.

Intelligence does NOT justify whether we kill animals or not. We kill and eat to survive, or we kill and use them to live off of them. That's why all Japanese say "itadakimasu" before we have them--regardless of religious affiliation--to show gratitude and respect for any living thing that has been taken its life, including plants, and also say "gochisousama" to thank anyone who was involved in preparing the meal. We've been doing this since before most Western civilization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_Japan#Eating_and_drinking

Intelligence should not be the measure to treat animals differently. In fact there shouldn't be any measure to treat animals differently, NOT their size, NOT their utility, NOT their intelligence.

Why do we, as humans, forbid ourselves to kill each other? It is NOT because we are intelligent beings. It is because murder is killing of our own species and it is AGAINST our nature. It is unnatural for us human beings to kill each other.

Crying out for justice for only certain animals based on its intelligence, to me, is a great hypocrisy. So I DO NOT recognize dolphins as non-human persons. We have to live with our cruelty. That in our culture is deemed as acceptance of our KARMA (sinfulness).

フォロワさんからの反応とやりとり

欧米人におよそ理解できない考え方

菜食主義の欺瞞

伝統的な食文化の重み

「知的」かどうかでなぜ扱いが違う？

その後の反応