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    sallysassalotEllie Shechet
    10/27/15 4:33pm

    I thought about the last question the other day. Orcas kill a very large variety of prey around the world. Each group adjusts depending on the area, but it seems they have no qualms killing manta rays, seals, great whites, whales, and other dolphins.

    It’s very curious why they don’t even attack us when they have no issue killing and eating other intelligent and emotional creatures.

    Do we smell bad?

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      andsmokeit is building a house in ryan fitzpatrick's beardsallysassalot
      10/27/15 4:37pm

      i mean i feel like if you go sit on a ice floe in the middle of the peak hunting season and there weren’t any tasty blubbery mammals around

      your ass would be eaten like

      pronto

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      Vanguard Knightsallysassalot
      10/27/15 4:43pm

      Yes humans smell bad.—Cats of the world.

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    Ellie ShechetEllie Shechet
    10/28/15 5:20pm

    Update: This post originally stated that Carl Safina and Miley Cyrus were protesting a wolf cull in the Great Bear Rainforest, which was incorrect. The controversial program takes place in several other regions in the province.

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      badmuthaEllie Shechet
      10/27/15 4:28pm

      That was wonderful. Thank you for this interview.

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        RedStateBlueWomenbadmutha
        10/27/15 5:01pm

        This was terrible. This man knows so little, and most of his "research" is based on his own feelings toward the animals. It's like watching Peter Singer talk, but in a written interview.

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      JessiekayEllie Shechet
      10/27/15 4:36pm

      Great interview, although I’d have liked more discussion on solutions — even far-fetched, science fiction ones — rather than individual moral qualms about eating a fish. If there are no solutions, what does that say about us? What does one do? Not eat fish?

      I don’t know any solutions. Nothing I’ve seen on the horizon will even make a dent in this global holocaust. Overpopulation and rampant development look unstoppable. We’re strip-mining the ocean of life and lighting the forests on fire.

      Preserving genes in the hopes of someday repopulating them seems like wishful thinking, like taking pictures of a book-burning. “Look at all those books, they sure were great.”

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        RedStateBlueWomenJessiekay
        10/27/15 5:34pm

        THIS! So much of the conversation from people outside conservation looking in (and even this asshole, who describes himself as a conservationist but I have serious qualms with) is about our stupid feelings about animals. They probably don’t give as many shits about our stupid feelings as whether or not we turn their forest into a gold mine, or their savannah into a farm, or their rivers into resorts!

        And people keep talking up eco-tourism: tourists require hotels and roads and airports and FOOD. Eco-tourism leads to development and isn’t this magical silver bullet.

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      MostlyKelp ( Now, you people get that oven, or die trying. You hear that, Stormy? DIE.)Ellie Shechet
      10/27/15 4:17pm

      No surprises here, we treat each other like shit. Needs a puppy pile-on:

      GIF
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        JuiceEllie Shechet
        10/27/15 5:05pm

        the older I grow the more incensed I become with the horrific premise that the human species is more important or different in any positive meaningful way- and the results of living in a man made world where the foundation for our civilization is that that we are more important than all the other species (merely because we have thumbs) makes me incredibly angry. This feeling is always accompanied by a sense of hopelessness. But books like this or the Jane Goodall book which covers how some humans have been able to reverse our impact on particular species give a little hope that one day humankind as a whole or majority will view the world as a place for all to live, and not just ours to trample, exploit, kill and destroy.

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          lethekkEllie Shechet
          10/27/15 5:27pm

          I want humans to have to answer for what we’ve done to animals like these.

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            mental icebergEllie Shechet
            10/27/15 4:29pm

            Uuuugh reading comprehension skills! I quick read the headline as “Conservationist Carly Fiorina” not “Carl Safina” and couldn’t figure out why Carley Fiorina was suddenly into animal rights more than women’s reproductive rights......and it’s 5 o’clock somewhere, I need a drink!

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              VerucaExtraSaltEllie Shechet
              11/01/15 3:59pm

              I like this guy but there’s one enormous fallacy in this interview that I cannot get past - when he talks about soybeans and how eating tofu is worse for the environment than eating a fish you caught yourself. Only about 6% of the world’s soybean production is for human consumption - 85% of it is for animal feed. So, no, tofu is not the cause of the gigantic soybean farms that are deforesting the prairies and Brazil - industrial beef production is. This is a huge mistake in logic, and seems like something he should definitely be aware of if he’s going to speak publicly as an “expert.”

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                Dr_ZoidbergEllie Shechet
                10/27/15 4:47pm

                I can sum this up in two words: people suck.

                My desire for a world-wide plague that kills every last human gets stronger every day. We’ve had our chance, and we screwed things up fantastically. Time for some other species to take over.

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