Philosophical Vegan Forum

Of all the animal consumption habits, IMO wildlife has got to be perhaps the worst and the while many people may have condemnation towards terrestrial wildlife hunting, they have a huge socioculturally indoctrinated blindspot in the shape of fish.
Fishing often involves a lot of by catch killed too like endangered fish,turtles, dolphins and baby whales and there is no bolt gun to kill fish either, they're just killed by suffocation.

I found this lecture at UCLA by Prof Jeremy Jackson very informative, titled a variation on Huxley's novel, as "brave new ocean".
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2fRPiNcikOU

How is the cove? I am yet to watch it. Pescetarians like Harris should watch this too.

garrethdsouza wrote:Pescetarians like Harris

I'm not quite sure where you got the idea that Sam Harris is a pescetarian. He has stated that he eats meat (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLFnJ8pWh8g)

It's hard to keep track of what Harris is doing. His cognitive dissonance is so strong, it wouldn't surprise me if he flip flops every week.

Overfishing, and particularly bycatch, is a very serious issue indeed. The Oceans won't last much longer; that's something I was actually surprised about, and I'm not often surprised -- the sheer degree of animal life reduction in the ocean; it was hard to believe.

I don't recollect but I thought I saw a talk show where he suggested he was pescetarian.
Its also turning into an ocean of garbage.
http://www.ted.com/talks/capt_charles_m ... anguage=en