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Re: Tuna

#11
post #10

Ahh chinese traditional medicine, a blight on our poor animal friends.

> a blight on our poor animal friends.

Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead.

For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

Re: Tuna

#12
post #10

Ahh chinese traditional medicine, a blight on our poor animal friends.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

No thank you.

Re: Tuna

#13
post #10

Ahh chinese traditional medicine, a blight on our poor animal friends.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

Yep. Most human activity is a blight on animals.

Re: Tuna

#14
post #10

Ahh chinese traditional medicine, a blight on our poor animal friends.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

There's a massive difference between farming protein sources of domestic animals for nutrition and paying people halfway around the world to kill severely endangered animals for fake quackery and bullshit.

Re: Tuna

#15
post #3

I'm confused, Wikipedia lists the Atlantic Blue Fin Tuna as "least concern". Is the author being dramatic or is the wiki page inaccurate? That being said, the part about people speculating on animal extinction was new to me and saddens me deeply. One wonders in what way such a person views themselves, I can't imagine it being very favorable.

The Monterey Bay Aquarium fish guide puts bluefin in the “avoid” section: https://www.seafoodwatch.org/recommendations/download-consum...

Re: Tuna

#16
post #10

Ahh chinese traditional medicine, a blight on our poor animal friends.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

Farming is vastly more destructive for ecosystems than animal husbandry.

(For maximum efficiency we now combine both, of course, but it's indstrial farming that's the real killer, not cow farts.)

Re: Tuna

#17
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

There's a massive difference between farming protein sources of domestic animals for nutrition and paying people halfway around the world to kill severely endangered animals for fake quackery and bullshit.

I think the point here is that they are equally unnecessary, not necessarily equally bad.

Of course some people truly do depend on animal protein. Almost anyone reading this almost certainly doesn’t.

That makes it seem at least a little bizarre that we ridicule TCM yet continue munching animals on a daily basis.

If you’re only concerned about conservation then farming wouldn’t be a concern at all. It just depends on where you’re looking from.

Re: Tuna

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

Farming is vastly more destructive for ecosystems than animal husbandry. (For maximum efficiency we now combine both, of course, but it's indstrial farming that's the real killer, not cow farts.)

Animal husbandry is farming, isn’t it? Or is the dictionary definition getting a little stale?

Re: Tuna

#19
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a blight on our poor animal friends. Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead. For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.

There's a massive difference between farming protein sources of domestic animals for nutrition and paying people halfway around the world to kill severely endangered animals for fake quackery and bullshit.

Well, as long as there are people insisting on calling animals “protein sources”, instead of what they are (living, feeling beings) how can we expect anyone to develop the empathy required to see killing animals “for quackery” – or any other reason for that matter – as wrong?
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