The issues usually fall to two things. Some find it abhorrent to eat sapient creatures. Others are opposed to eating an endangered animal you don’t need to.
Sapience is very ambiguous and hard to judge. Could definitely get away with saying chickens are less intelligent than a whale, a cow maybe, but a pig probably not.
The whales currently being hunted, the minke whale and byrdes whale, are not endangered. The fin whale which they’re currently considering in this article is vulnerable but not endangered. Probably shouldn’t be hunting if it’s vulnerable but there’s a bunch of other fish that are vulnerable that no one gives a shit about eating.
Perception is key here. A lot of advertising talks about “endangered whales”, but doesn’t say, “these whales are doing okay, but these other whales are on the brink of extinction.” I certainly couldn’t give you a list of endangered vs not endangered whales. Possibly because I live a thousand kilometers from where any whales are going to be found.
The issues usually fall to two things. Some find it abhorrent to eat sapient creatures. Others are opposed to eating an endangered animal you don’t need to.
Sapience is very ambiguous and hard to judge. Could definitely get away with saying chickens are less intelligent than a whale, a cow maybe, but a pig probably not.
The whales currently being hunted, the minke whale and byrdes whale, are not endangered. The fin whale which they’re currently considering in this article is vulnerable but not endangered. Probably shouldn’t be hunting if it’s vulnerable but there’s a bunch of other fish that are vulnerable that no one gives a shit about eating.
Perception is key here. A lot of advertising talks about “endangered whales”, but doesn’t say, “these whales are doing okay, but these other whales are on the brink of extinction.” I certainly couldn’t give you a list of endangered vs not endangered whales. Possibly because I live a thousand kilometers from where any whales are going to be found.