Post Sushi
We may well be the last generation to eat wild sushi. A report from the UN Environmental Programme released in May 2010 states that 30 percent of fish stocks have “collapsed,” and it warns that unless we alter our fishing practices, in 40 years we’ll be effectively out of edible fish. Paul Greenberg, author of Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, writes that globally we catch and consume 170 billion pounds of wild fish per year, an amount “equivalent in weight to the entire human population of China.” Greenberg points out that we would need four or five oceans to meet the appetites of the world’s seven billion humans.
If a human controlled demolition of wild fish stocks seems shocking, it would seem even more so to previous generations. Wild fish, to quote Greenberg, seemed “a crop, harvested from the sea, that magically grew itself back every year. A crop that never required planting.” For our ancestors, the very idea of us humans fishing the ocean to the point of collapse would seem preposterous. The oceans took months, even years, to sail across. The oceans were the very definition of vastness. But when a single bluefin tuna can fetch over $10,000, market forces become a deadly current that our oceans’ most delectable creatures must struggle against. Can we reverse that current somehow? Or is it too late now?
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It is unfortunate that we live in a world of bias but we do. All Vegan arguments are the same, as are all Carnivore arguments.
The science is clear - we are OMNIVORES - we need meat (not a lot, but some) and we need vegetables (a lot) and fruit. This is what our bodies need to function.
Because we have intelligence we believe we can elevate ourselves above our animal natures but we cannot and should not. We should be true to ourselves.
And being true to ourselves is that we do not need commercial butchering of animals to survive. We do not need their milk after 6 months of age. We do not need to slaughter millions of animals just to like store shelves with slabs of plastic wrapped meat.
This is where our greed has taken over our intelligence. If we can get $10k for a tuna, how much can we get for a million tuna? If we can milk a cow and make $3 a bottle, how much can we make off a million bottles?
The argument of vegan vs vegetarian vs meat eater is pointless. We all need a balanced diet of meats, grains, and vegetables/fruits. Write as many books and articles as you want but the truth remains.
What we do not need is the money-making aspect associated with over harvesting animals and plants.
One thing about American culture - we never look at the specifics, only what pertains to us and our "ideals". We want to defend our stance because we believe it is right. But it is only an individual stance and not one that is good for everyone. Look at any topic that is rammed down our throats because someone wants us to side with them - religion, politics, Mac vs PC - whatever. We need community to make us feel we are correct and doing the right thing.
"I am a vegan and thus I must fight for the vegan lifestyle." Good for you. But vegan diets do NOT work for everyone. We all have needs that only WE can know. And it's not about politics. It's about understanding our bodies and what we need to be healthy. Not some ideas from a disconnected author in a book that writes 1000 pages on generalizations from manipulatable statistics. What do YOU need to be healthy? Only one person can answer that question. And unfortunately that is the one mired in so many biases and opinions that we have forgotten how to listen to ourselves.
Fight greed, fight abuse. But don't fight what you need because you think it is right. Your body needs what it needs. That is science. Everything else is subjective rhetoric that is tired and stale.
Anonymous a
It is unfortunate that we live in a world of bias but we do. All Vegan arguments are the same, as are all Carnivore arguments.
The science is clear - we are OMNIVORES - we need meat (not a lot, but some) and we need vegetables (a lot) and fruit. This is what our bodies need to function.
Because we have intelligence we believe we can elevate ourselves above our animal natures but we cannot and should not. We should be true to ourselves.
And being true to ourselves is that we do not need commercial butchering of animals to survive. We do not need their milk after 6 months of age. We do not need to slaughter millions of animals just to like store shelves with slabs of plastic wrapped meat.
This is where our greed has taken over our intelligence. If we can get $10k for a tuna, how much can we get for a million tuna? If we can milk a cow and make $3 a bottle, how much can we make off a million bottles?
The argument of vegan vs vegetarian vs meat eater is pointless. We all need a balanced diet of meats, grains, and vegetables/fruits. Write as many books and articles as you want but the truth remains.
What we do not need is the money-making aspect associated with over harvesting animals and plants.
One thing about American culture - we never look at the specifics, only what pertains to us and our "ideals". We want to defend our stance because we believe it is right. But it is only an individual stance and not one that is good for everyone. Look at any topic that is rammed down our throats because someone wants us to side with them - religion, politics, Mac vs PC - whatever. We need community to make us feel we are correct and doing the right thing.
"I am a vegan and thus I must fight for the vegan lifestyle." Good for you. But vegan diets do NOT work for everyone. We all have needs that only WE can know. And it's not about politics. It's about understanding our bodies and what we need to be healthy. Not some ideas from a disconnected author in a book that writes 1000 pages on generalizations from manipulatable statistics. What do YOU need to be healthy? Only one person can answer that question. And unfortunately that is the one mired in so many biases and opinions that we have forgotten how to listen to ourselves.
Fight greed, fight abuse. But don't fight what you need because you think it is right. Your body needs what it needs. That is science. Everything else is subjective rhetoric that is tired and stale.
not frank purdue!
JUST STOP HUNTING THE FUCKING FISH! HA! MY MAN!
OFF THE TOPIC BUT I TOOK THIS SAME STANCE AFTER ALL THE BICKERING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN RELIGIONS. JUST STOP GOING TO CHURCH SYNANGOGUE, MOSQUE ETC ETC.
THE TRUTH IS THAT MANY MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALOT OF MONEY AND POWER INVESTED IN THE MEAT/DAIRY AND RELIGION BUSINESS. THESE SAME PEOPLE MAKE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICIAL PARTIES. MAD PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO MOW THEIR OWN LAWNS IF THE WORLD WENT VEGAN AND RELIGION FREE WHICH IS ALSO WHY THESE AGENDAS AREN'T TAUGHT IN ANY SCHOOLS ANYWHERE, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC. JUDAISM CATHOLOCISM AND MUSLIM FAITHS NEVER PUT VEGANISM ON THEIR AGENDA FOR A REASON.
not frank purdue!
JUST STOP HUNTING THE FUCKING FISH! HA! MY MAN!
OFF THE TOPIC BUT I TOOK THIS SAME STANCE AFTER ALL THE BICKERING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN RELIGIONS. JUST STOP GOING TO CHURCH SYNANGOGUE, MOSQUE ETC ETC.
THE TRUTH IS THAT MANY MANY PEOPLE HAVE ALOT OF MONEY AND POWER INVESTED IN THE MEAT/DAIRY AND RELIGION BUSINESS. THESE SAME PEOPLE MAKE MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICIAL PARTIES. MAD PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY HAVE TO MOW THEIR OWN LAWNS IF THE WORLD WENT VEGAN AND RELIGION FREE WHICH IS ALSO WHY THESE AGENDAS AREN'T TAUGHT IN ANY SCHOOLS ANYWHERE, PRIVATE OR PUBLIC. JUDAISM CATHOLOCISM AND MUSLIM FAITHS NEVER PUT VEGANISM ON THEIR AGENDA FOR A REASON.
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