I bought a game for Freya – my three year old daughter – called Fish Attack. Basically it is a game where you try to hook plastic fish with plastic fishing rods. Freya soon took both rods to maximize her semi-synthetic polymerization product catch. 
Whilst we fished away in plastic fantastic world, I noticed that one of the fishes looked suspiciously similar to a dolphin. 
I know that catching dolphins is usually regarded as a bad, so I was curious to find it there – plastic or not. Perhaps the game was made somewhere where dolphins are slaughtered to make cute purses or fried snack food. What do I know? Now, I don’t have a problem with this. I have a very basic rule when it comes to food. If it tastes ok and doesn’t look to weird, I’ll eat it. I can even void the second part of that if I’m hungry. But it made me curious if perhaps there are other games around the world equally politically incorrect. Norway would have a “Club that baby seal” game for sure and Japan might have a really big game dedicated to harpooning whales. As I have yet to find the depth human depravity can reach, I thought I’d look for board games like that on the web. I couldn’t find any so it seems as if there is a potential market there for Hasbro or Fisher Price to make one. I did find a few web games though.
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