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Pescador
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skipjack Joe
Those who criticize the man should also offer an alternate solution that accomplishes the same. Otherwise the criticism is not useful.
Cousteau and Gandhi? Why not offer up Jesus Christ.
British Colonialism was a really ugly affair. Yet it was done in a very cultured, civilized manner.
The bottom line is not how you do it but what you do. The rest is window dressing in my opinion. |
Well, my friend, that is so easy. Not much headway has really taken place except that our friend has filled his pockets with lots of money cause his
supporters love the whales. I love the whales but think this birdbrain (yes, I have sat down and talked to him extensively at the Telluride Mountain
Film Festival). So this is an easy solution.
When the Farming council wanted to boost chicken egg consumption, they hired a great propagandist who worked very closely with the Dept of Ag. and
several other government agencies and they flooded the radio, television, and magazines with the slogan, Breakfast is the most important meal of the
day. Following this propaganda, the sale chicken eggs went through the roof and they sold 100 times more than they had ever sold before which also
drove the price up.
I am proposing, that instead of acting like some kind of Modern Robin Hood, that if someone really wanted to change the consumption of whale meat,
that would easily be accomplished by a little propaganda and would certainly be more effective than some idiot running around with a very expensive
boat tilting at windmills like some modern day Don Quijote. In fact, come to think of it, I think Don Quijote may have had more intelligence than our
friend Dave.
Just give a little thought to what was accomplished, mostly by accident, to the whole hunting scene in North America with the production of the movie
Bambi.
Now if you think that it is somehow romantic that this bozo runs around playing Pirate of the oceans and that he truly cares more about Whales than
his own ego and pocketbook, then go ahead and donate as much as you can afford to spend. I, on the other hand, would love to see some type of well
thought out public relations campaign that really might bring about some type of worthwhile change.
[Edited on 3-3-2013 by Pescador]
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MrBillM
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Creative Marketing ?
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"Whale ! It's the Other White Fish" ?
"Tastes just like Chicken" ?
"Blubber-Burgers are Better" ?
"Shamu Steaks are Superb" ?
"Got Whale" ?
"What's for Lunch ? Ask Ahab".
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comitan
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Pescador
Tell it like it is, I like that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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Paulina
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pescador
...I am proposing, that instead of acting like some kind of Modern Robin Hood, that if someone really wanted to change the consumption of whale meat,
that would easily be accomplished by a little propaganda...Just give a little thought to what was accomplished, mostly by accident, to the whole
hunting scene in North America with the production of the movie Bambi.
... I, on the other hand, would love to see some type of well thought out public relations campaign that really might bring about some type of
worthwhile change.
[Edited on 3-3-2013 by Pescador] |
If Bambi had some impact, then maybe we could start by flooding the Japanese internet with Willy...Who didn't shed a tear for that poor guy?
http://youtu.be/rgjnfJLMWI0
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There are many others in addition to the whales that need our concern.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21629176
CITES meeting to deal with species 'extinction crisis'
and it truly is a crisis.
"Money is an anesthetic for conscience."
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Watson is simply going where Greenpeace dared not go. And he does what he does (allows for property damage) because all other efforts are currently
failing, or at least not good enough. At this point, with special interests involved, educational films will not do the trick. Watson is not a
'buffoon' but rather highly intelligent. Don't let the chaos of his ships as seen in whale wars fool you. If you look at the over all goal of saving
whales (in this case) he has brought more attention and saved more individual whales than Greenpeace and the Sierra Club combined. Like others have
mentioned, if the IWC had any balls Japan and Iceland would be nursing a black eye about now.
We need more Paul Watson's in this world...  
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| Quote: | Originally posted by gringorio
Watson is simply going where Greenpeace dared not go. And he does what he does (allows for property damage) because all other efforts are currently
failing, or at least not good enough. At this point, with special interests involved, educational films will not do the trick. Watson is not a
'buffoon' but rather highly intelligent. Don't let the chaos of his ships as seen in whale wars fool you. If you look at the over all goal of saving
whales (in this case) he has brought more attention and saved more individual whales than Greenpeace and the Sierra Club combined. Like others have
mentioned, if the IWC had any balls Japan and Iceland would be nursing a black eye about now.
We need more Paul Watson's in this world... |
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Ok. I have a marking campaign slogan.
"SAVE THE WHALES"... oh wait... I think it's been used already.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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fishbuck
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Ok I've got the new marketing slogan:
" SAVE THE WHALES... no not those whales dummy... the other whales that you didn't know were being slaughtered by Japan in Antarctica under the guise
of Research but are in reality being slaughtered by a large commericial whaling fleet and they would have continued to get away with it except for an
organization called Sea Shepards that has a tv show to spotlight the sneaky goings on of the Japanese way down there in Antarctica where no one really
pays any attention cause it's really cold and there is no reason to go there except to illegally slaughter whales with hunter killer ships and a
factory ship so the glutonous Japanese can feast on whale meat at their stuck up overpriced sushi bars etc... you know it's part of the culture"
So yeah it's a little wordy but I suppose that is why I have never been offered a job on Madison Ave but who knows if it catches on this might be a
new carreer for me...
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"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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