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I had an environmental ethics professor in college. Her pet cause was the plight of the atlantic bluefin tuna. She frequently lamented that only the cute animal
by cnasc 8y ago
I had an environmental ethics professor in college. Her pet cause was the plight of the atlantic bluefin tuna. She frequently lamented that only the cute animals get any real support.
- biztos 8y agoAnd yet we eat both bunnies (cute) and pigs (arguably not cute). Fish, though, yeah, they're not getting any cuteness bonus. Not much outcry about "factory farming" in aquaculture. I have recently, and irrationally, stopped eating octopus because they're so smart. Maybe some viral videos of tuna doing amazing things would help...
- codycraven 8y agoOnly you can prevent blob fish hatred.
- rusk 8y ago> and pigs (arguably not cute). Ah come on![0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJgCDBx2bU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJgCDBx2bU EDIT: P.S. > Not much outcry about "factory farming" in aquaculture. I try not to eat Salmon; it's pretty much always farmed, often in ugly conditions which is a travesty for such a noble creature.
- krageon 8y agoIf you're going to eat salmon anyway (and lots of people do), it's much less destructive to eat it factory farmed. This actually goes for every single fish.
- rusk 8y agoThis is completely true, but don't be kidding yourself you're eating something you're not!
- jlebrech 8y agofactory farming contributes to ocean dead zones
- rusk 8y agohow so?
- garmaine 8y ago...how?
- rusk 8y agoThere's a kind of a compromise going on here. Wild Salmon stocks are limited and were it not for farming demand would outstrip what's available. Apparently the tradeoff here is "dead zones" in the ocean unfortunately. Of course, as I say, the farmed salmon is not the same fish as the wild one. The flesh is dyed pink. The flavour doesn't benefit from the wild salmon's varied diet, and the texture isn't developed by all that swimming upstream. There is a very wide variance in the quality of farmed salmon too, to the point where you really can't be sure what you're eating unless you actually know the farm it's coming from. I've heard it said that farmed salmon carries little of the health benefits of wild salmon. Personally I'd prefer to just pay a lot to eat salmon very rarely than to eat farmed salmon frequently. But everywhere you go there is otherwise indiscriminate demand.