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Except we farm most of our fish. And sharks are out of the equation?
“Most”, yeah 50%. What about the other half? Just because we farm more fish now doesn’t mean we catch less in the wild. It just means we’re farming more.
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Does it change the fact that they are mass-murdered for cosmetics?
Yes, a lot. Even if you're a die hard animal rights activist, can't you see that 3.2 million deaths from a population of a hundred million (say) is a much smaller deal than 3.2 million from a population of ten million? One means possible extinction of a species, the other does not.
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Mass-murdering sharks for cosmetics is unethical and evil. They feel the pain just like we do.
It may come as a surprise that research seems to show that sharks don't feel pain. "Snow and his co-workers concluded that elasmobranchs lack the neuronal machinery absolutely essential for the perception of pain." http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/s_pain.htm
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Mass-murdering sharks for cosmetics is unethical and evil. They feel the pain just like we do.
Why do people think that humanity collectively has the same concept of ethics? What is good and bad? You seem to think every human is on the same page of what life is
It’s more upsetting to know that over 2.7 million are killed for cosmetics. Humans truly know how to dispense misery on mass scale.
"An astonishing 7 out of 8 creams surveyed had animal squalene. This equals roughly 2.7 million shark lives taken a year for our cosmetics."
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Mass-murdering sharks for cosmetics is unethical and evil. They feel the pain just like we do.
It may come as a surprise that research seems to show that sharks don't feel pain. "Snow and his co-workers concluded that elasmobranchs lack the neuronal machinery absolutely essential for the perception of pain." http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/topics/s_pain.htm
At best this shows that shark pain perception has a different neurological basis to humans. We still have no idea what sharks do and don't "feel".
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The opposite has been shown to be true. For example, see the effect of wolf reintroduction upon biodiversity. They keep other populations in check which themselves would overall cause harm. Look at the situation in the Scottish highlands. The entire landscape has changed beyond all recognition because of the loss of apex predators (wolves, bears). The deer population is massive, and it prevents forest growth and rege…
The same has happened with whitetail in the eastern US, and a lot of people around here are still foolish enough to get upset with the DNR when they do a cull. That the resulting venison goes to homeless shelters seems not to move these weepers over Bambi; presumably, in their coldly rational utilitarian calculus, the life of a deer exceeds in value that of a human, at least once the human's circumstances have been f…
These people don’t understand that we have to manage the environment we created (removal of predatory animals that eat deer) and part of that is harvesting deer to prevent mass starvation from lack of winter food. I’d bet if you showed them footage of a deer starving to death in winter, they’d agree herd culling is more humane.
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Please, please consider your privilege first, before beying condescending about the world population. Helping the Earth is very, very high on Maslow's pyramid, just appreciate that you are that high on it and think how to bring more people at thay level. Plagues and wars cannot help the environment, but the bettering of the condition of man kind can, and is the only way forward. In order to help the Earth, we first h…
Wars, and plagues do help “the environment" when the latter is meant in the way too many environmentalist view it - as a no-human wilderness.
a) you keep the human population minuscule, at a primitive techonlogical level
b) you completely wipe out all humans
c) humans become so advanced they transcede their natural limitations
I'm okay with killing half a million big fish to end this pandemic.