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Just had some dolphin friendly tuna for lunch and got to wondering why we favour tuna/swordfish and the like over dolphins for food. I know they are claimed to be intelligent animals but then so are pigs and we (the British) are pretty happy to chow down on them.

Are dolphins endangered, too smiley looking or just not very tasty?


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 1:57 pm
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the Japanese do, and hunt them in one of the most barabric ways possible


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 2:03 pm
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what do you think "scampi" is ? 😐


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 2:05 pm
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"scampi"

usually monk fish tail if it's cheap or norway lobster if it's true scampi


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 2:07 pm
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yeh they [i]tell[/i] you that, ....

it's dolphin and kitten 50:50


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 2:24 pm
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If lack of intelligence is suitable justification for not eating something, why don't we eat racists?

And while I'll accept that cats are quite smart sometimes, I'd happily eat one.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 5:47 pm
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Hopefully if we ever get a visit from an advanced alien civilization they will exclude the more intelligent species from consideration as a potential food source.

Although of course there is no moral reason why they shouldn't eat touchy-feely humans just because they get overemotional about stuff.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 5:58 pm
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for what porpoise do you ask?


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 6:03 pm
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Maybe the Cornish? having 6 fingers helps keep hold of the slippery buggers. 🙂


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 6:05 pm
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And while I'll accept that cats are quite smart sometimes, I'd happily eat one.

Yeah I don't mind eating pussy either.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:10 pm
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Well we used to eat whale in WWII. By all accounts it didn't taste very nice. A bit soapy.

I would assume that dolphin tasted similar.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:24 pm
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for what porpoise do you ask?

This is a serious subject, no place for puns. Please stop talking pollocks.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:33 pm
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for what porpoise do you ask?

This is a serious subject, no [s]place[/s] plaice for puns. Please stops talking pollocks.

You don't need to be a brain sturgeon to see where this is going.
I'll mullet over and get back to you.


 
Posted : 25/03/2012 9:39 pm
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Will you all stop carping on with these fish jokes.


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 8:45 am
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Eel never let it lie now.


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 10:42 am
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Hopefully if we ever get a visit from an advanced alien civilization they will exclude the more intelligent species from consideration as a potential food source.

Although of course there is no moral reason why they shouldn't eat touchy-feely humans just because they get overemotional about stuff.

Maybe they're already here and are just fattening us up ready for harvest. Forget the 'Obesity epidemic' - it's aliens all along!


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 10:48 am
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Posted : 26/03/2012 11:02 am
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I think considering how intelligent whales are no civilised being would eat them.

That goes for a lot of other animals and animal products that are eaten for no good reason, monkey brains and tigers knackers as two examples.

Then again humanity is a bunch of irrational, delusional, insane apes, so anything goes!


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 11:46 am
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Do any nations eat Dolphins?

we do, we just call it dolphin unfriendly tuna


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 11:52 am
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Have you tried birds eye 'chicken' flippers?

Cod roes, I've had a bream about eating them for ages, halibut I've managed to resist it for all our hakes.

[i]sorry, slow day, time for a brew[/i]


 
Posted : 26/03/2012 12:20 pm

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