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JackTheMimic yesterday
I am not saying it's inconsistent. I am saying that's why people feel that way. Most people don't eat octopus for different cultural reasons. Pigs are (incorrectly) not seen as intelligent by those who say "bacon is yummy." Either way, I have eaten many intelligent things, I just have a habit of thanking them for their lifeforce to sustain my own.
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Telluride Telluride@primal.net yesterday
Nothing to do with intelligence. —When whales are as common as pigs, I’ll agree. We’re not running out of pigs anytime soon and the ecosystem isn’t relying on them in the same way as large marine mammals
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JackTheMimic yesterday
That's a factor as well. I would just caution against thinking that we know how many fauna live in any given ocean. Things adapt. When whales realized humans hunted them THAT might be a bigger reason for their seeming disappearance. Better evasion techniques.
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