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The asda/sharks thread set me thinking.
I'm not a hippie environmentalist - (although I'm now thinking of becoming an apprentice "hippie environmentalist") - but there are a number of underwater creatures I don't or won't eat...
Cod - except Icelandic - because I saw a program about North Sea cod-fishing and couldn't believe it...
Shark - ever since I read on this forum that a gazillion of them are killed each year and they only produce young twice a century...or something like that. And I often leave a restaurant that serves shark-fin soup.
Marlin - 'cos I've seen one of these strung up on a weighing station and it was one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen displayed in one of the saddest ways imaginable. I just wished it was back in the water for me to see while diving.
Octopus - incredible, fabulous beasties. I went diving a little while after having an octopus curry and saw my first octopus underwater on that dive - guilt, guilt, shame, embarrassment and guilt,
Squid - ditto
Turtle - obviously
courgette - doesn't qualify as an underwater creature I know but it's a disgusting vegetable that no-one should eat anyway.
So what other fish / sea-creatures should I not be helping send to early extinction? Tell me now, before I accidentally eat the last one.
tas
The asda/sharks thread set me thinking.
I'm not a hippie environmentalist - (although I'm now thinking of becoming an apprentice "hippie environmentalist") - but there are a number of underwater creatures I don't or won't eat...
Cod - except Icelandic - because I saw a program about North Sea cod-fishing and couldn't believe it...
Shark - ever since I read on this forum that a gazillion of them are killed each year and they only produce young twice a century...or something like that. And I often leave a restaurant that serves shark-fin soup.
Marlin - 'cos I've seen one of these strung up on a weighing station and it was one of the most beautiful creatures I've ever seen displayed in one of the saddest ways imaginable. I just wished it was back in the water for me to see while diving.
Octopus - incredible, fabulous beasties. I went diving a little while after having an octopus curry and saw my first octopus underwater on that dive - guilt, guilt, shame, embarrassment and guilt,
Squid - ditto
Turtle - obviously
courgette - doesn't qualify as an underwater creature I know but it's a disgusting vegetable that no-one should eat anyway.
So what other fish / sea-creatures should I not be helping send to early extinction? Tell me now, before I accidentally eat the last one.
tas