The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
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The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
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#2Dang, are you seriously not going to reinstate this account?
I don't know why, but I feel personally slighted by your ban.
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#4This article is unimaginably bleak. Fascinating, morbid, and just plain gruesome. I wonder how long until descendants of ours look back on our existence with similar gut-wrenching sensations of "that's...evil" .
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#5This article is unimaginably bleak. Fascinating, morbid, and just plain gruesome. I wonder how long until descendants of ours look back on our existence with similar gut-wrenching sensations of "that's...evil" .
The image of thousands of penguins every day being rendered into oil makes me deeply sad, and I've no idea why it affects me more than the other animals we raise as livestock. It's not just that they're cute - since cows are IMO quite adorable - I cannot put my finger on it.
Re: The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
#6This article is unimaginably bleak. Fascinating, morbid, and just plain gruesome. I wonder how long until descendants of ours look back on our existence with similar gut-wrenching sensations of "that's...evil" .
The image of thousands of penguins every day being rendered into oil makes me deeply sad, and I've no idea why it affects me more than the other animals we raise as livestock. It's not just that they're cute - since cows are IMO quite adorable - I cannot put my finger on it.
There's no other reason than the fact that abusing cows is widespread. When everyone does it, it becomes normalised.
Re: The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
#7This article is unimaginably bleak. Fascinating, morbid, and just plain gruesome. I wonder how long until descendants of ours look back on our existence with similar gut-wrenching sensations of "that's...evil" .
The image of thousands of penguins every day being rendered into oil makes me deeply sad, and I've no idea why it affects me more than the other animals we raise as livestock. It's not just that they're cute - since cows are IMO quite adorable - I cannot put my finger on it.
The other thing I don't entirely get -- and I am not entirely sure I want to know -- is why penguins. The article highlights that they're a bad "oil" animal. Rendering livestock remains down is not a new idea and is something that would have been done industrially on land at the time of this expedition.
I am a lifelong vegetarian, but I am not sure that my partner would let me get away with going totally vegan. Things like this make me want to: at least plants don't have a central nervous system and the ability to feel pain or fear. They're also far more energy efficient as a food and fuel source.
I feel like I need cheering up after reading this article!
Re: The Penguin Oil Industry (2019)
#8> Unbelievably, within four years of their arrival,
they had near wiped out all the seals
Not really that unbelievable, given that's pretty much how it went for every seal population when they were hunted for skins by Europeans.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
The image of thousands of penguins every day being rendered into oil makes me deeply sad, and I've no idea why it affects me more than the other animals we raise as livestock. It's not just that they're cute - since cows are IMO quite adorable - I cannot put my finger on it.
The other thing I don't entirely get -- and I am not entirely sure I want to know -- is why penguins . The article highlights that they're a bad "oil" animal. Rendering livestock remains down is not a new idea and is something that would have been done industrially on land at the time of this expedition. I am a lifelong vegetarian, but I am not sure that my partner would let me get away with going totally vegan. Thin…
Why penguins? Because they were there, in large numbers.
And were fatty, as are many sub-Antarctic warm blooded animals.
That's... about it.
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#10The article lacks IMO the most gruesome tool that was used for processing penguins, the penguin press:
https://ssz.fr/brdl/presse-manchots.jpg
I took it on Kerguelen island, that's not a very good picture but you get the idea, a nice engineering detail is that the handle that turns the spiked rollers also has a blade and slices the pressed penguins into smaller slices.
Most of the time though (at least on Kerguelen) penguins were only used as fuel to render seal oil. The penguin oil itself was not used as much because it was less valuable.
Edit here's another picture of the same tool which better shows it maybe:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_etp6gd-6WC0/TOpnWK6ZBYI/AAAAAAAABR...
