Tuna
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"Is importing thousands and thousands of pounds of Bluefin tuna from the Mediterranean to Tokyo fish markets. They also have a massive freezer, where they have acquired a stock reserve of Bluefin tuna. As the number of fish reaches a record low, the price of tuna meat will continue to rise. Mitsubishi will be able to greatly profit off of the extinction of Bluefin tuna because of their reserve stock".
https://www.projectcensored.org/mitsubishi-profits-worlds-tu...
Any conservation effort will simply fail in this conditions.
Is a few hundred at most with stones and sticks against megacorp Goliath. Tuna will be either domesticated or extinct. And is not easy at all to domesticate.
Anyhow, skipjack is the most common species of tuna in the Pacific and those are doing reasonably well. The countries with fishing waters are all part of a multi-nation compact that limits the number of fishing days that can be sold. This limit (as well as other limits on fishing techniques) serves to ensure that it’s not being overfished.
Pacific bluefin is absolutely being overfished, even if the much bigger threat is lack of feeder fish due to the triple threat of climate change, pollution, and overfishing.
In what regard? Culinary, or?
Japanese companies are buying a lot of net caught Mediterranean tuna also since 2000 at least
It is human nature. I'm not defending it, just observing.
Let's not forget that most of the world kills and eats our animal friends when they can just eat plants instead.
For most of us, animal products are no more necessary than Chinese traditional medicine.
Of course some people truly do depend on animal protein. Almost anyone reading this almost certainly doesn’t.
That makes it seem at least a little bizarre that we ridicule TCM yet continue munching animals on a daily basis.
If you’re only concerned about conservation then farming wouldn’t be a concern at all. It just depends on where you’re looking from.
In the context of industrial western narions, there is nothing behind this argument except arrogance and superiority complex.
(For maximum efficiency we now combine both, of course, but it's indstrial farming that's the real killer, not cow farts.)
If you get rid of animal farming you'll also get rid of a substancial amount of agriculture (not all of it if course, humans will still need to eat, but not as much as cows, pigs, chickens etc combined)
So either we go back to the same total population we had thousands of year ago or we start thinking how we can be more efficient with our food.
Humans raise animals on grass, but relatively few animals. If we only eat grazed cattle, then very few people will get to eat it — or — we would all need to eat far less of it.
Further, evidence of grazing storing carbon effectively has been largely debunked, and it’s clear now that grazing land would likely be best left to the wilderness, allowed to be restored as forest or meadow or whatever it was. We stand to gain far more from allowing natural ecology develop and thrive than from eating more steak.
No you cannot scale up grass fed meat, you should not, and the entire idea is so full of holes it can barely hold itself anymore.
I'll need a citation on that, because the world certainly doesn't lack grazeable grass.
(Cattle is fed farmed grains today because it's more efficient logistically, not because there's a shortage of grass.)
That being said, the part about people speculating on animal extinction was new to me and saddens me deeply. One wonders in what way such a person views themselves, I can't imagine it being very favorable.
At least they’re honest about it. The people responsible for the extinctions just shrug and either ignore it or lie.
There’s no way to point to your warehouse of bear gallbladders and say anything other than, “These are gonna be worth a ton once all the bears are dead.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_bluefin_tuna#Conserva...