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Sato and others are incorrect in stating that killing animals raised in captivity for that purpose and killing wild animals like dolphins are 'equal.' From a social/ethical/moral point of view yes, they are equal. It's killing an animal for food. There is however a major difference. When animals are born, bred, and slaughtered in captivity, you effectively have a closed system. The effects of that system on our ecosystem as a whole are relatively minimal*. The natural population of wild cattle (if such a thing exists) doesn't change no matter how many cattle farms there are. When the japanese kill wild dolphins, to such a degree that we know their global populations are dwindling, they are harming the entire ocean system and the ecosystems that depend on it by upseting the stability of populations that have evolved over millenia. They are in fact imposing their own culture on the entire world, are they not?
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Ok, except cattle being the 2nd largest source of methane gas after termites, do have a significant impact on the ecosystem. 
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