This is just another example of man living on the Earth instead of with the Earth. We decimate species left and right and then pat ourselves on the back if we save a few. I have no doubt the blue fin tuna will see numbers dwindle to a shadow of it's former numbers. Our technology will once again outstrip our personal growth.
Asian cultures in general are outrageous at what they have done to many endangered species, from rhinos to elephants, to grizzly bears, to leaving driftnets all over the oceans to kill everything. They eat anything and everything, and they grind up animal horns and organs into ridiculous hocu-pocus concoctions for of all things, aphrodisiacs. Asia has stone-age attitudes when it comes to the environment. Take Viagra, and leave the animals alone.
As far as eating goes, humans will starve eventually, and then animals will rule again. Its nothing to get upset about. Human supremacists, usually delusionally religious, think they are superior to nature, when they are really at its mercy.
Fisherman have nothing to cry about when they are out of business, just like the codmen of N America.
Ignorant people like you blame asian cultures. Nothing else need be said. Mr white boy, betcha not an asian. Cultures withstood the test of time, be as timeless and stone age they might, you fancy lil tourist love it and infest upon it. Appreciate the cultures and dont blame only japanese for eating tuna, its a global concern not just asians, dimwit. your comments irk me and like minded people.
This is a prime example of market failure. The incentives of sushi consumers do not match those of profiteering fishing companies. The Japanese public, for one, is woefully uninformed about how the strip-mining of maguro stocks is destroying one of the cornerstones of its food culture. Market economies have served a broad swath of people in wealthy countries well for the past hundred years or so, but their shortcomings in protecting public commons like air, fish stocks, and drinking water have become glaringly evident. Until recently, before the Internet, information dissemination was so poor that price signals were the only reliable means of facilitating efficient production and the scale of production was small enough that many ignored the attendant harmful effects of industrial waste, air pollution, and resource depletion. But these effects are now too large to overlook. Whether we can counter the most harmful excesses of "raider-style" capitalism is perhaps the foremost challenge facing us today. We need truth tellers to challenge the fatuous fiction that we can eat whatever we want whenever we want at cheaper prices without permanently depleting our natural food stocks; that the marketplace, without global watchdogs and well-funded regulators responsive to the public%u2019s common interests, is the best steward of our natural food stocks; that uninformed, rampant consumerism is compatible with a environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable future.
You can''t change the heart''s of the greed mongers, so I hope they deplete the tuna so they can suffer the consequences of their conscienceless behavior. Maybe then their children will behave differently. Nobody will die from not eating fish.
Man, also known as the weapon of mass destruction.
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Take Viagra, and leave the animals alone.
As far as eating goes, humans will starve eventually, and then animals will rule again. Its nothing to get upset about. Human supremacists, usually delusionally religious, think they are superior to nature, when they are really at its mercy.
Fisherman have nothing to cry about when they are out of business, just like the codmen of N America.
Man, also known as the weapon of mass destruction.