From “so long and thanks for all the fish” to “enjoy being space red-lined, fuckos”
We do, its just you you don’t.
They got great marketing. They act all cute and nice so we don’t think of eating them eventhough they are evil.
I’d rather not eat anything sapient. Crabs, chicken, and beef? Fine, but I’m not eating anything smarter than a 5-year-old human. No octopi or corvids for me.
How do you judge that? There are very many species of animals and there is variation within each species.
So you’re okay with eating toddlers, gotcha 👍
Sure, if they never grew up. But they do, so I won’t.
They don’t if you eat them first …
Did you mean sentient? :)
No, I meant sapient. Sentient just means “reacts to outside stimuli.” Plants are sentient. Its a really useless word.
Hopefully you don’t eat pigs then. They are one of the most intelligent animals.
I eat beef… But when you meet cows they are basically gigantic dogs…
Sometimes I go though phases where I don’t want any meat… But eventually my brain pushes those feelings back…
That said fuck factory farming, I really wish we had a better system
Too fast, I only get halfway through a bite before they swim away.
Religious reason: It’s not biblical under the Levitical food laws. In those laws, things like pig, dolphin, catfish, and vultures (to name a few examples) are not considered food to us (unclean foods due to what they eat).
I don’t believe it’s specifically forbidden, just that dolphins don’t have fins or scales. That includes a lot of things in the sea
If you look at the Levitical food laws, there are specific critera for what animal is considered food to eat. For seafood, it’s fish with fins and scales. If one doesn’t have the other, it’s unclean.
If everyone followed that “law,” nobody would eat pigs or catfish.
But most people do eat pig & catfish.
So your explanation doesn’t quite hold water.
If you take their answer as “historical precedent that’s never been overturned” then it makes sense, And the question becomes “why did it get overturned for pigs and catfish?”
People turned away from the faith because they wanted to eat unclean meats.
There’s a test I’d like to run.
Over a large and varied population, are unclean meats tastier or not?
Not defining key terms like “we” defeats the porpoise of the question.
!dadjokes@lemmy.world is that way mate.
That you, Jacques du Gatineaou?
Some people do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_mammals_as_food
Speak for yourself. Now someone pass me the speech centre of the brain!
I don’t want to eat an intelligent creature!
It’s okay. These dolphins spent all their money gambling.
Oh. Alright then.
Japan and other “island nations” doo eat dolphin meat.
IIRC since we poisoned our seas the meat is full of mercury
Why does that only apply to Dolphin. Is there something in Mammals that makes them accumulate Mercury more than Fish?
The dolphins are getting it from the fish. It just tends to accumulate more in the longer living bigger animals. You are actually advised to watch your fish intake due to mercury levels.
I didn’t know so search for it
Understanding Mercury Bioaccumulation in Dolphins
Mercury, a heavy metal, enters marine ecosystems through various sources, including industrial discharge, atmospheric deposition, and natural geological processes. Because dolphins are apex predators, they accumulate mercury through the food chain. Smaller fish ingest mercury, and when dolphins consume those fish, the mercury becomes concentrated in their tissues. This process, known as bioaccumulation, results in higher concentrations of mercury in top predators like dolphins compared to organisms lower in the food web.
https://iere.org/how-much-mercury-was-found-in-the-dolphin-meat-they-tested/
Anything at the top of a foodchain is mercury poisoned.
Tuna also has a higher mercury contentIt doesn’t. The process is called bioaccumulation and is a function of how long the species live and as a predator, how much of food lower on the food chain they eat.
Sardines are safer than Mackarel because they don’t live as long and predate less. Mackarel are better than Tuna because tuna is a longer lived predator that eats more, thus accumulates more mercury. Dolphins are top of the food chain, this have higher mecury levels.
Ahh!! Thank you!
Data point: This was addressed in the documentary The Cove, which is about dolphin hunting. Fishing companies insisted that dolphin meat was an important part of the Japanese diet, but when they interviewed folks on the street they looked confused and laughed at the idea of eating a beautiful dolphin.
Why don’t we eat humans?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_Oceania
The Korowai tribe of south-eastern Papua could be one of the last surviving tribes in the world engaging in cannibalism.
Sometimes we do.
Sometimes we should.
Because that’s our group!
That’s not sufficient.
It is for me.
Join me for dinner?
Cause we are humans
Tasty, tasty humans.
Long pig
Sometimes they bite back.
In the US, looks lile it’s illegal to trade in dolphin meat due to the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
It’s apparently legal in Japan.
