Isn't this a form of mammalian discrimation based soley on pretty looks? Has anyone tried to train a Tuna?
2007-07-12 06:04:16 · 28 answers · asked by MichaelB 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
haha... good question. because dolphins are supposed to be all flippy and you dont want a flippy dolphin in your tuna sandwitch. plus, tuna prolly tastes better.
2007-07-12 06:11:09 · answer #1 · answered by mia 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tuna is pretty much untrainable, in relation to a dolphin. Dolphins are much smarter. That said, people DO eat dolphin. There are lots of places all over the world where you can get a dolphin steak.
2007-07-12 13:07:02 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Taco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually this exact topic has come up in a few conversations I’ve had with friends.We figured out that most omnivores would eat anything that was pre-killed and tasted good, regardless of how intelligent the animal was, as long as it wasn’t like us. Apparently great apes would be turned down not because of their intelligence, but because of how close they are to humans.
But dolphins aren’t like us, yet people are still more hesitant to eat them than say, piggies. And no one wants to see them get hurt. I think for a lot of people it may have something to do with how dolphins are portrayed in society - we hear so much about how smart and wonderful they are, and it seems they’re so often presented as being our friends.
2007-07-12 13:26:49 · answer #3 · answered by cookiesandcorn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't we recycle and save the trees,
why don't we eat tofu and save the cows,
why don't we use carboard and not plastic,
The list could go on but i think it's because dolphins are higher in the food chain therefor the is a smaller population of dolphins, and as tuna is lower there is a higher population of them.
2007-07-12 13:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dolphins are more likely to survive in the ocean than tuna
2007-07-12 13:42:03 · answer #5 · answered by Wish You Were Me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Basically you are right. I am sure a lot of animal right people will say different, but tuna are becoming harder and harder to catch and it is a form of discrimination.
Also dolphin does not taste good with mayonaise and bread.
Just cause dolphins are 'cute'.
2007-07-12 13:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dolphins look nicer than tuna
2007-07-12 13:06:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
A tuna suggested that, but he got canned.
Nobody eats dolphins (porpoises), so why kill them unnecessarily? (The dolphin you find on menus is another fish entirely, if you google dolphin, you can find pictures of it.)
I guess we're species-ists.
2007-07-12 13:16:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tuna is not a mammal, it's a fish. So discrimination of mammals does not apply. Dolphins are considered intelligent mammals and are not fish.
2007-07-12 14:27:56 · answer #9 · answered by foodieNY 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They do not taste as nice ;-)
But seriously, if we eat cows, why not dolphins. They may be smarter, as some people say, but so are other animals people eat in the world. Monkeys in Indonesia, Cats and Dogs in China, etc.
We also kill whales for other purposes and are as smart as dolphins !!!!
Tell you what....lets all be vegetarians.....not !
2007-07-12 13:10:39 · answer #10 · answered by corneliovaca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋