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Do you have objections to eating farmed dolphin/monkeys etc (3 Viewers)

Do you have objections to eating farmed dolphin/monkey etc


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Manyy sharks do not make good eating fish, most of the better eating fish a a lot lower down the food chain!
 

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we dont farm carnivores becvause of the higher costs in food and less return.

carnivores generally grow slower and need more food which is expensive lol

feeding some lions a sheep a day or letting 10 sheep run around and eat naturally occuring grass lol what to do


the thread isnt even about this though for fuck sake
 

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What do fish eat? I thought it was plankton.
other fish?

depends on the fish obviously

Manyy sharks do not make good eating fish, most of the better eating fish a a lot lower down the food chain!
whiting?
flathead?
sharks are not good eating fish lol they are still fish
penty of carnivorous fishes are delish mate
 

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Most eating fish are carnivores.

Land-based predators are not farmed generally because it is harder, given that predators require meat, space, don't breed as quickly and don't produce as much meat-for-your-money. Generally, modern farming practices remove disease-based limitations to farming predators.
 

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Well would an animal with a higher food chain absorb more contaminants from each species in the chain below them than one that just eats grass?
Yeah, but "contaminants" are rare in terrestrial animals, where generally the chain goes plant -> herbivore -> predator. You only really have to worry about biomagnification when you're talking about marine animals, where the chain can go bacteria -> algae -> herbivore -> predator -> predator -> predator etc.
 

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we dont farm carnivores becvause of the higher costs in food and less return.

carnivores generally grow slower and need more food which is expensive lol

feeding some lions a sheep a day or letting 10 sheep run around and eat naturally occuring grass lol what to do


the thread isnt even about this though for fuck sake
You basically described the problem of farming dolphins and whales.
 

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Theorem:

In order to love freedom one must hate dolphins.
 

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seeing as my post was deleted

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i already explained that i am aware of this and that we must disregard that fact before we can discuss thsi thread
 

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Ok, disreagarding the whole "To hard to reproduce the produce", i wouldnt eat whale or dolphin since their natural numbers are declining and they are smarter then they let out.


BTW who ever said anyone <80 IQ should die or something, LOL, bogans would be running scared.
 

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nah man farming (hypothetically) makes the fact that they are endangered or whatever null and void becasuse they would be bred up for us to eat lol

so then what eh?
 

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I dont really eat fish lol.

Then again whales and dolphins are not fish.

Dunno, probably wouldnt touch it.
 

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This thread is a bit retarded shane, didn't read.

You picked the least interesting species to discuss.

Pigs are among the most intelligent animals, generally regarded as equally intelligent as dogs. Yet they are subjected to among the worst conditions of all farmed species. We would not tolerate dogs being kept in such conditions. Why is eating pig okay? Why not farm dogs and cats for food?

I wonder what the current laws are on slaughtering dogs for food? Seems a bit inconsistent to prohibit it. I should be able to pick up lunch from the pound, they were only going to be put
down anyway.

Farming dolphins is far fetched. Minke whale harvest on the other hand, as undertaken by the Japanese, is sustainable. Tim flannery said so.

Eat minke, live.

Bit of a slippery slope though. I don't trust the catch remaining sustainable. Nor that it wouldn't expand to other, non-sustainable species. Needs to be heavily regulated by international agreement. Perhaps the taboo that exists on whale meat is for the best.
 

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its also not asking that

its asking whether you would have an objection to it being eated and farmed lol not necessarily you
 

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This thread is a bit retarded shane, didn't read.

You picked the least interesting species to discuss.

Pigs are among the most intelligent animals, generally regarded as equally intelligent as dogs. Yet they are subjected to among the worst conditions of all farmed species. We would not tolerate dogs being kept in such conditions. Why is eating pig okay? Why not farm dogs and cats for food?

I wonder what the current laws are on slaughtering dogs for food? Seems a bit inconsistent to prohibit it. I should be able to pick up lunch from the pound, they were only going to be put
down anyway.

Farming dolphins is far fetched. Minke whale harvest on the other hand, as undertaken by the Japanese, is sustainable. Tim flannery said so.

Eat minke, live.

Bit of a slippery slope though. I don't trust the catch remaining sustainable. Nor that it wouldn't expand to other, non-sustainable species. Needs to be heavily regulated by international agreement. Perhaps the taboo that exists on whale meat is for the best.
dude i used pigs as an example if you would read the thread lol

apparently kway doesnt consider them sentient like dolphins so its okay to farm pigs but not oversized water mammals

also i reaslise farming is unfeasible, i am asking that IF it was, you would object to dolphins being farmed
 

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