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The King Of Sushi In Trouble

September 7, 2008 9:23 PM

Highly coveted as the definitive dish in sushi, bluefin tuna are being captured in rising numbers by modern methods that threaten to endanger the species. Bob Simon reports.

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by September 8, 2008 5:59 AM EDT
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.
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by anticippoint September 8, 2008 2:51 AM EDT
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.
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by no_nonesense September 8, 2008 1:02 AM EDT
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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by najamuddinmohammed September 7, 2008 11:59 PM EDT
All this excessive fishing of tuna is outrageous.
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by najamuddinmohammed September 7, 2008 11:57 PM EDT
All this excessive fishing of tuna is outrageous.
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