Talk about unnecessary cruelty, lemmings are quite cute creatures, can't imagine what was going thru their heads ("the Disney filmmakers") when they threw all those lemmings off a cliff to their deaths for a film.
The most important attribute for animal rights causes it seems. If Facebook campaigns are any measure...
Fish, though, yeah, they're not getting any cuteness bonus. Not much outcry about "factory farming" in aquaculture.
I have recently, and irrationally, stopped eating octopus because they're so smart. Maybe some viral videos of tuna doing amazing things would help...
Ah come on![0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJgCDBx2bU
EDIT: P.S.
> Not much outcry about "factory farming" in aquaculture.
I try not to eat Salmon; it's pretty much always farmed, often in ugly conditions which is a travesty for such a noble creature.
Of course, as I say, the farmed salmon is not the same fish as the wild one. The flesh is dyed pink. The flavour doesn't benefit from the wild salmon's varied diet, and the texture isn't developed by all that swimming upstream.
There is a very wide variance in the quality of farmed salmon too, to the point where you really can't be sure what you're eating unless you actually know the farm it's coming from.
I've heard it said that farmed salmon carries little of the health benefits of wild salmon. Personally I'd prefer to just pay a lot to eat salmon very rarely than to eat farmed salmon frequently. But everywhere you go there is otherwise indiscriminate demand.
Even animals react to it. A live and let live attitude (if not one of protectiveness) towards harmless/cute living things is perfectly healthy it seems.
How many species have gone extinct for purely natural reasons again?
Humans are a non-linear term in the equation, but the idea of an untouched and immutable nature is incorrect.
"Imma make lots of money from this"
https://youtu.be/huGJmQU4Piw?t=159
Notice how the jaguar can't move from that spot even with a bunch of large caiman right in front of it? It's almost like one of the jaguar's paws were pinned down to keep it in one spot. Wonder why? Could it be cameras were heavy and clunky contraptions back then that you could realistically focus on one area at a time? Can't capture jaguar footage if the jaguar is allowed to move out of frame. Or it was drugged so much that it had no idea what was going on.