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Ugh what next, farm chimpanzees for their meat?
by davedx 3y ago
Ugh what next, farm chimpanzees for their meat?
- webkike 3y agoI mean, they aren’t farmed for meat but monkey farms do exist: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey-farm-breeding-medical-science-research/72339272007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/01/28/monkey...
- alwa 3y agoNot to be low-effort, but you know Soylent Green is people, right? I always was a little mystified at their choice of name over at the actual Soylent meal replacement company. And their choice to feature their green Soylent product as the main banner on their webpage.
- AlwaysRock 3y agoI always thought it was kind of tongue in cheek.
- collingreen 3y agoIt is; they even made a limited edition joke product that leaned all the way in called "Soylent Green - as good as humanly possible". I love sharing them on hiking trips although they are more funny than tasty.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoWe don't eat chimps much. We do eat a lot of octopuses.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoTake too long to reach maturity. Many octopuses live just a year or two. Takes no time to get to maturity. Anyway, whales and dolphins eat them too.
- addicted 3y agoDolphins also rape each other and kill baby dolphins. That’s hardly a justification for what humans should and shouldn’t do.
- JoeAltmaier 3y agoNO, but it reveals what wild octopus have to put up with. Humans eating a few is like, a drop in the bucket. Worry about something that matters. Like, to the octopus. Likely growing up in a safe well-supplied gentle pool without fear might even appeal to them. Btw you just gave an excellent defense of why it's ok to eat dolphins. They don't care, it's business as usual for them.
- Tostino 3y agoWhen I was growing up, my mother worked at a dolphin rescue center. I spent a whole lot of my early childhood there. Some dolphins would be make friends with specific other dolphins, and enemies out of others (bullying / attacking) and needed to be kept apart. Not all of them would actually recover enough to live to old age. I distinctly remember times when a dolphin had a friend die, they would display what I would consider depression symptoms. Not wanting to play with toys, less interest in eating, way less activity in general.
- efitz 3y agoNot farmed, but hunted, and not chimpanzees, but monkeys: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_meat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_meat (aka bush meat).