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Greenland sharks are 500 years old and nobody seems to get worked up about killing them - eating them on the other hand is something to get worked up about [0].
by danieltillett 8y ago
Greenland sharks are 500 years old and nobody seems to get worked up about killing them - eating them on the other hand is something to get worked up about [0].
0. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_shark
- cwmma 8y agoyeah that's because their skin is basically soaked in urine, so it's a kind of niche market compared to the industrial harvesting of whales, a group of species known to be very intelligent.
- mosselman 8y agoThat is amazing, thanks. I don't understand what we humans do sometimes. We aren't the greatest.
- logfromblammo 8y agoHakarl is already a crime against humanity. Making it from nitrogen-saturated toxic meat is a crime against Earth.
- krylon 8y agoOn the upside, one might argue that people eating this stuff are already punishing themselves, so to speak.
- logfromblammo 8y agoPunishing themselves, and anyone else in the same room^Wbuilding^Wcity block.
- DalasNoin 8y agofrom this wikipedia article "The authors further concluded that the species reaches sexual maturity at about 150 years of age"
- yesenadam 8y agoOMG I read a lot about them last night...Swim less than 1 mile an hour, yet somehow eat seals and sometimes whole reindeer, migrate as far as the Gulf of Mexico.. I woke up this morning with my every thought invaded by those horrific parasites the vast majority of Greenland sharks have hanging from both eyes like macabre baggage tags that feed on the surface of their eyes, blinding them..