Comments on: Slicing a Whale Shark for Its Meat.

By: F*ck

F*ck — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 12:07:23 +0000

So this is why whale sharks are so rare, few years ago saw a news of a chinese family eating a tger they caught.

By: brandon kim

brandon kim — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:53:16 +0000

stupid chinese what did the whale do to them

By: Brian Glassman

Brian Glassman — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:44:15 +0000

Looks tasty the meat is well defined.
Remember much of American and european culture is towards cherishing animals, and I see a lot of people backing their culture, but the Japanese culture is towards enjoying gods gifts in animals. A polar difference I must say, and many people can not come to terms with that.
I say, Respect other cultures, don’t condone them if you do not know what they are about.
Brian Glassman
P.S. Whale Sharks populations are growing see this article.
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2007/s2127363.htm

By: Boxxy

Boxxy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:42:50 +0000

I am a major troll.

By: SvenskPojke

SvenskPojke — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:19:15 +0000

people are so stupid… i want all the animals on this planet to team up and attack, kill and eat all the humans and take over the earth like they have been for millions of years, and have stupid humans left extinct for good.

By: immmaaasharrrkk

immmaaasharrrkk — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:14:05 +0000

Many of the people who are posting comments seem to not realize that the shark was killed for its meat.

Also, animals like rabbits are used to “test” cosmetics. It’s pretty gross and painful to even see…

By: JohnMC

JohnMC — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:52:59 +0000

Crap! Whale sharks are very harmless. They don’t eat humans at all or more so be aggressive at them. They only eat plankton and such like blue whales. Why is it that some people are ignorant about this?

By: Lana

Lana — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:59:20 +0000

This is so sad. Sharks are becoming rapidly extinct and that is exactly why. i don’t like sharks seeing as they eat people but that does not give us the right to just go ahead and eat them back!!!!!!!

By: sharkLOVER

sharkLOVER — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:42:26 +0000

i think thats soo sad.sharks are becoming extinct and people like that are making the problem worse…imbalancing the food chain!

By: mikedero

mikedero — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:49:23 +0000

Come on people it is fish people eat fish every day. I do not hear anyone talking about the rainbow trout they are better looking then a whale shark. people are to damn touchy today. To much of this PC bull crap.

It is a shark not a big deal that thing will feed the whole village for close to a month.

and the whole eat Veggies thing is wrong God made us omnivores (Spelling) we eat both meat and veggies. go hug a tree. By the way Bambi tastes great as well

By: mari4ka

mari4ka — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:56:20 +0000

only in F*kin china. those people kill and eat anything that moves. go f*kin vegitarian or something, not only do they eat sharks and whales what about dogs, cats, birds, insects, tahts where SARS came from. you should know better

By: sleepwalker

sleepwalker — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:27:07 +0000

whale shark meat is very delicious.i eat it on the average of once a month.

however, the only best way to cook it is by grill. by that way, the fat / oil will drip out continuously.

eating more than 200 grams of this meat will give you an uncontrollable fatty drip from your ass.

By: lulu

lulu — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:02:53 +0000

POOR SWEET WHALE SHARKS THEY ARE ENDANGERED

By: amy

amy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:05:07 +0000

omg im really annoyed now!AAAAAAAAAH. Its horrible to see those people killin anythin they cn get there hands on all for money

By: amy

amy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:03:05 +0000

omfg….thats disgusting. i hate traditions…..:S

By: Jazzy

Jazzy — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 08:49:37 +0000

hey ive only just seenthis picand i think that its soo cruel. yeah i know they need food in some plsces but that was a armless and beautiful shark, its their choice to kill thaings like that but they done it with no consideration!!!!!!!!!!!! and those on the Daily mail that wrote the top story, the whale shark only eats Plaknton not humans, look up your facts!!!

By: billy

billy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:23:35 +0000

thus is disgusting they don’t don anything o us compared to what we do to them there population is down by 75 percent just because we want there fins. after they cut of the fins they throw the live shark into the water. if it was dolphins that we wee cutting to bits everyone would freak but its sharks so no one cares. and by the way eating sharks has been proved to lower sperm counts and make men infertile, also there the top predator top.

By: billy

billy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 20:19:10 +0000

i personally think tht we shouldnt do this because if u do this then it totally fucks up the ecosystem it doesnt matter if its a whale shark pr a bull shark. also some od the stuff humans do to sharks are dugusting like cutting of ther fins while they are still alive and putting them back into the water. if it was dolphins having there fins cut of we would a flip out but its sharks so called man killers. they do nothing comperd to wht we do to them there population is down by 75% thts jsut cruel.

By: Someone

Someone — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:15:35 +0000

And how is this worse than clearing land that thousand of endangered/threatened species need in order for us to raise more cows, pigs, and other domestic animals. If we would eat just a little less meat, we’d not only be less obese, but also less animals would have to lose their habitat.

By: Sid

Sid — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:23:57 +0000

And they aren’t just for breakfast, anymore!

By: steinum heavyaxe

steinum heavyaxe — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 08:08:59 +0000

this fills the lack of curiosity of what whales look like anatomically.

this puts me into a worse mood than i was.

it is better to know than not know the practices of other cultures.

By: ilker

ilker — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 04:58:26 +0000

That is one big fish! =)

By: Aleki

Aleki — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 01:07:23 +0000

cl… A lot of the time you “bleed” the animal before you cut it up. It’s a lot cleaner that way. I’ve seen Inuits cutting up whales before. It’s actually pretty clean.

By: katioh

katioh — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:54:23 +0000

pic!

By: katioh

katioh — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:51:37 +0000

Here’s a link to a site about them- at the very end you will see that Whale sharks are classified as a “vunerable species”

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By: cl

cl — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:31:05 +0000

just curious, but how come there’s no blood when they’re slicing it? one would think that cutting any huge animal, there’s bound to be lots of blood.

By: thecorbinator

thecorbinator — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:10:58 +0000

Unlike what you might think d.maile most shark species are also endangered. They are also extremely important to the ecosystem since they are at the top of the food-chain and have been for 200 million years. Killing sharks is pretty much the stupidest thing humans have ever done (and yes I. They are not man killers as one might think (5 shark related deaths a year, less than dog related deaths) they are not stupid and we know very little about them because of our fear of them. So maybe there should be a little more shark activists I think.

By: jen

jen — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:20:18 +0000

Aren’t they endangered?

By: d.maile

d.maile — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:12:51 +0000

Hard to believe some people are hung up over this. A whale shark may be called a whale shark for its size, but it’s still a shark, not a whale. I understand how a lot of people feel horrible when they see whales being hunted, etc., but this is still a big fish, and human beings in ocean-harvesting cultures have been eating fish for thousands of years. At least it’s better than straight sport fishing where they don’t make use of what they’ve caught but to mount it on a wall.

Personally, I’d like to know how it tastes.

By: biltmore

biltmore — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 20:00:51 +0000

bye bye former reader, like we give a damn …

I wonder how it tastes, as I’ve heard from some people that it doesn’t taste good at all.

By: former reader

former reader — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:05:25 +0000

and this is supposed to be “neat”. f*ck off with this. i’m outta here.

By: Terry Ortiz

Terry Ortiz — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:46:50 +0000

Some more wikipedia-age:

“All four whale sharks were imported from Taiwan, where whale sharks are dubbed as Tofu sharks because of the taste and texture of the flesh.”

Blubbery may not be quite the texture, but whale sharks make me crave daifukumochi.

By: quinnn

quinnn — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:27:42 +0000

I caught a bit of Planet Earth last night and they had a bit on the whale shark and showed it and tuna eating the same bait fish (I think that was what they were). It was amazing to watch them work.

By: mario brandao

mario brandao — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:16:29 +0000

that’s disgusting!!!!

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:39:35 +0000

@Jimbo

It took me a moment to understand what you meant…until I saw…”it” in the background. Hehehe. Yeah that Peachy-Orange person seems to think he/she is…how do you say…”the shit.”

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:32:34 +0000

The statement is still true, Sammy – whale shark is more likely to eat (plankton, that is) than be eaten.

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:27:13 +0000

What is the reason for the flaming whatever in orange? Was it his/her idea to do this?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:56:56 +0000

“More likely to eat than be eaten”…

From Wiki: “The whale shark is a filter feeder – one of only three known filter feeding shark species (along with the basking shark and the megamouth shark). It feeds on phytoplankton, macro-algae, plankton, krill and small nektonic life, such as small squid or vertebrates.”

Not quite the blood thirsty killer most people think.

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:54:43 +0000

Egads! Well, at least it looks like they won’t waste any of it. Although I do think it’ll be quite chewy seeing it that the Whale Shark is pretty blubbery.