Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
Do you really want to risk eating what might be the ONLY intelligent non-insane lifeform on the planet? We may not meet extraterrestrials for a very long time but these guys are right under our noses. I think we have a fairly good idea of how smart dogs are :slanted:
Actually I mostly avoid eating any animals but eating ones that could teach us something seems really really wrong.
Dolphins are waaaay overrated. Have you been reading John Lilly?
Sharks are infinitely cooler than dolphins, but how often do you hear people banging on about saving sharks, (several species of which are badly endangered)?
Dolphins: boisterous, squeaky creatures beloved by hippies; basically marine spaniels, with a nasty sideline in gang rape but a great PR team to gloss it over.
Sharks: silent, efficient, cold-blooded, dead-eyed killing machines.
There's simply no contest.
Edit: what can dolphins 'teach' us, exactly? I'm basically cool with the fact that I can't balance a ball on the tip of my nose, and I don't think I have the requisite organs to locate objects by sonar, no matter how badly I wanted to. I really dislike this lazy fetishism of animals as 'superior to people' because they, like, live in harmony with nature, maaan...the reason humans are the dominant species on the planet is that we're the most evolutionarily successful. To put it another way, the reason pandas are almost extinct is basically because they're shit. In the game of natural selection (of which humans are a part, being no less 'natural' than any other species), they simply haven't made the grade. That's not to say we shouldn't be making a big effort to save their habitats and stop them from dying out, because people are sentimental about animals and it would make lots of people very sad if they went extinct. The same goes for dolphins, I'm certainly not advocated killing them all, far from it - I'm just saying it's stupid to hold them up as some sort of role model for human behaviour. The only reason they're not massively over-reproducing, waging war and depleting natural resources is because there are hardly any of them (compared to us) and because they don't have a material culture. If they did, they'd be doing just what we're doing. In fact, they'd be us.
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