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Comment by mangodrunk | Hacker News Reader

Well, why not stop eating them?

This is the route I took. I'm a meat-eater and eat plenty of it (including pork, which someone else mentioned in this thread), but I decided to stop eating octopodes. It feels a little funny compared to people who avoid meat in general or eat all of it, but at least for now it's the only thing I don't eat.

I bet there are other mammals you 'don't' eat - at least, that you'd refuse to eat. Man is the obvious one, but what about other primates, elephants, giraffes, etc.?

I bet there are more animals that you don't eat than you do, and maybe there are even more that you would not be prepared to eat than you would.

At the end of the day, if it comes down to me or that animal, I'm choosing me. But that's not the reality for any of us on Hacker News. A lot of us have more money than we know what to do with, we don't struggle feed ourselves, we're not out hunting animals in the woods. We can make choices.

Not really..

I would consider heating human. I have nothing against another mammal. However, I would require humane treatment of said human (or any animal or byproduct I eat).

I'm not going to pretend I'm some morally superior being. But I'd like to at least reduce suffering of beings. After all, something else must die for me to eat (and I can't live on milk and honey).

This can't be serious

I don't care for eating them either. I imagine them someday becoming the dominant species and eating us in return.

I don't fear that at all. The males die after mating and the females starve to death on their egg brood. So there is no inter-generational knowledge transfer.

They would revert back to natural tool users with each succeeding generation. As an order, they wouldn't even be able to dominate house cats.

They taste ridiculously good. However I am conscious of it, and I rarely have it.

Also, they are part of the few edible maritime species whose populations are increasing (http://www.humanosphere.org/environment/2016/05/rapidly-chan...).

Interesting!

I believe this is only a current indicator because of less predators. Ie over-fishing.

We don't know, but most studies that look at what does well in acidic oceans come up with jelly fish. Lots of jelly fish.

Yum, heavy metal infused jelly fish...

Did that 18 years ago. Haven't looked back once.

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