International talks to save Atlantic tuna begin in Morocco 5

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   caniscandida Posted 3:10 am
   18 Nov 2008

   tyranny of fashion, sushi editionForty-six nations are represented at this meeting (yet another hand-wringing, do-nothing meeting?).  But the truly interesting player is Japan.
   By curious synchronicity, these are the days when the Japanese whaling fleet, bearing mighty instruments of death, is leaving port, heading for southern oceans ...
   The Japanese are certainly not the only fishers who are pillaging the Mediterranean Sea.  To their great shame, Spaniards too (an example of local culprits) have a hand in over-fishing, everywhere.
   But it is worth consideration, that the by now globalized taste for sushi bears much responsibility for the unsustainable pressures placed on tuna populations.
   As one who professes that through Art comes salvation for Humanity, I find it a bitter truth that artistic expression and appreciation have so often required the deaths of many animals.  After the fact, hope sometimes glimmers through -- as when the Audubon Society was founded by American ladies protesting the women's fashion of wearing pieces, or even entire corpses, of birds on their heads.
   And so, hopefully, however high tuna-based sushi ranks as a culinary artistic treat, the fashion will pass before very much longer.

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   Biodiversivist Posted 3:31 am
   18 Nov 2008

   Not good, 61,000/15,000 = 4If we don't do something, bluefins will go the way of the bison. Buffalo hunters would also have bitched endlessly about quotas, had they existed.
   An industry actually sprung up after the bison were exterminated to use the bones found lying all across the plains to make black dye.
   Consuming the planet one a hundred species at a time.

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   Wolverine Posted 5:34 pm
   18 Nov 2008

   Forget The IndustryJust save the fish.

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   Biodiversivist Posted 1:23 am
   19 Nov 2008

   Good point, CanisSushi is a fashion statement.

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   Wolverine Posted 2:17 am
   19 Nov 2008

   SushiYou go too far, biod.  Sushi is a traditional food that began hundreds of years ago, in a slightly different form, in southeast Asia.  If not overeaten in either quantity or frequency, it's a healthy form of protein and if made well it tastes great.  Maybe some people eat it to be hip, but we eat it 'cause we love it.  And the spinach and seaweed salads that we order as appetizers are also very healthy and taste great.

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