Overfishing dolphins and whales

poor dolphins. imagine if 20,000 people died each year, just in japan, because dolphins ki11ed them. would that change their mind? think how many humans there are compared to one species of dolphin.

Okay you don't get it. Dolphins are intelligent and if you were actually reading more articles about thisttopis. Then you would understand that the fishermen use this thing called drive fishing.So what drive fishing does is it disrupts a dolphins sonar. Obviously if you disrupt a dolphins sonar it wouldn't know what to do but swim to shore, but at shore the japanese have set nets to capture the dolphins who tried to swim away. Maybe for all of those people who think that dolphins are smart should read up about his so more. And please enjoy what I have told you. Thank you.

What I really mean is that how we are treating the world today and how our numbers are increasing rapidly, we take over the resources and we get greedy without caring. If we continue to do horrible things to the planet there will be no future, Also we are cutting down trees for our use.85% of our trees have disappeared because of us and this is causing twice as much deforestation,global warming, erosions and landslides. If you think Im lying think about why don't you ever see this stuff on the news? Its simple, if we found out that our trees are getting destroyed by clearcutting them(means going in the forest and cut down random trees without thinking and destroying the animals homes) then businesses wouldn't get $. You might not care but by what we are doing, we are killing the planet and ourselves.

This is a shame that we are what we are doing to this beautiful world. We are just destroying it carelessly without a feeling in our souls saying what we are doing is wrong. People don't know this because they are blinded by how much money they will recieve. They don't care at all because they think they will be happy forever. I have something to say though, by how we are treating the world, there will be forever. The Earth is taking care of us while we are destroying it. Why ca't we do the same for the Earth? There should be a law about overfishing and overharvesting. They are not only hurtin the planet, they are also hurting themselves and their loved ones if they know it or not.

it is horrible to kill dolphins and whales because there is a limited supply, so to speak. whales especially are endangered. pigs and cows are farm raised to be eaten, and are easy to breed. sharks are also ki11ed and eaten too, but are not thought of as cute dolphins and whales.

its sad; ignorance does not rid us of our dependence on earth, the problem is not the meat or food itself- its over consumption, which will inevitably lead to depletion; leading to our own decline

enjoy:)

G.lad, you do have a point there. It does have to be said that dolphins are not afraid of humans, perhaps that is their downfall sometimes. They are usually very interested in people and have quite often saved humans from shark attacks etc..

As to the doner kebab, I've never eaten one in this country so don't know. In Greece they are wonderful, all pork or sometimes lamb.

GOW, without falling out, if dolphins were nearly as intelligent as humans, how come they keep getting caught in boats fishing nets? with their sonar, they should be able to hear the boat engines for miles,

Most other wild mammals birds and fish that I know of leg it at the sight or sound of man or other creature higher up the food chain,

It's only because dolphins look like they are smiling at us when they surface, that some of us would think it immoral to eat them, (like eating friendly cats dogs and horses), but it is deemed ok for us to eat burgers mincemeat and steaks, because on entering a field, cows don't make a fuss of us

Even though I know I could survive without meat, I still eat it, but I often wonder what is in this donor kebab meat, is it all lamb?

Yes but probably nowhere near as intelligent as dolphins! Dolphins may be almost as intelligent as humans.

How about answering the other two questions?

Pigs are intelligent GOW and we eat them don"t we?

Well, icanlol, I've explained why I think it's wrong to eat dolphin; do you disagree about their intelligence?

How would you like it if cannibals removed your family from your home and ate them?

Would you say it was no worse than if they had eaten a cow or a sheep?

OK, everyone who has been hating on me is either a holier than thou vegan or a hypocrite. I say that I have no problem with farmed animals, so farmed zebra is fine by my morals. Wild caught fish is seen as ok by most people despite dwindling fish stocks. Why is dolphin seen as particularly wrong when compared to cod?

Also to people who say how would I like to be ki11ed for meat, farmed animals would not exist if it wasn't for humans to eat them and if they are not caged all their life I'd say that a life with a sharp ending is better than dying slowly and painfully, or even worse no life at all. I buy free range meat and eggs because I care about the animal. I do not care what particular species that animal is however, although logic dictates that what is readily available (cow, sheep and pig) is the best choice.

TL:DR If you eat fish and are grossly opposed to others eating dolphin, you are very hypocritical.