NuRayZ said:
wtf are you talking about. people are upset at elephants getting killed lol. If you didn’t know, the African elephant is on the endangered species list. So yeah people are *edited*ed about it. I don’t see the Japanese repopulating the whales they slaughter. But *edited* it, those whales are stupid so if we kill em all it’s their fault right?
While i don’t mind people killing animals for food, i do mind when it drives a species closer to extinction. We have driven whale populations in the past to near that.
You missed my point, people are *edited*ed but apparently not enough because there are no TV shows about it. Just like whales, being on the endangered species list also doesn’t stop them from being used as food. In the vast majority of cases, pure use as food does not drive a species to extinction. There’s always another contributing factor, such as high-value byproducts, poor reproduction rates, natural predators, limited adaptation to environmental changes, or a mass-population event like a flood.
The Japanese alone have been whaling since the 1100s, if their intention was to drive whales to extinction they’re sure taking their sweet time doing it. The fact of the matter is that over a dozen countries have a long history of sustainable whaling, including the US (Alaska), it’s the oil byproduct that caused the overhunting. Placing severe restrictions on whaling forced an alternative to be developed and now everything’s peachy. Japan now catches 400-500 per year which is more than fair and much less than you probably thought they did.
NuRayZ said:
I just wish we could have saved certain species like the DoDo bird.
*edited* they would have been awesome to see be all goofy.
They weren’t really goofy, they were just dumb. And if you think humans were the sole cause of their extinction… lol
Let’s just say the meat was so bad even predators (dogs/cats) we introduced to the island didn’t consider them worth the effort.