I have been asked for my opinion of Sea Shepherd. Three quotes from Paul Watson: Sea Shepherd is a marine wildlife conservation organization that focuses on the enforcement of existing international conservation law protecting marine species and habitats. Sea Shepherd ships are vegan ships. We do not serve animal products on board our vessels. We are not hypocritical. However there is a big difference in hunting down endangered species in the wild and the slaughter of domestic animals. In Africa they call the slaughter of gorillas, giraffes and elephants the bushmeat trade. The killing of whales by Japan is no different. Whales are aquatic bushmeat and whaling is illegal. The bottom line is that Sea Shepherd is not protesting what people eat, Sea Shepherd is opposing the illegal slaughter of aquatic wildlife. My ships are vegan because we are conservationists. There are simply not enough fish in the sea to continue to feed the ever expanding populations of humanity. By 2030 every single commercial fishery on the planet will have been destroyed. We have already seen the destruction of the Northern cod, the bluefin tuna, the orange roughy, the Patagonia toothfish and so many more species. There is a major biological holocaust being waged against life in the oceans. More than 50% of the fish taken from the sea is converted into animal feed making pigs and cows the largest aquatic predators on the planet. Domestic chickens eat more fish than all the worlds puffins. Domestic cats eat more tuna than all the worlds seals together. We catch 50-70 fish from the sea to raise one farm raised salmon. We are vegans because it is an ecological crime to eat fish; we are vegans because we are marine conservationists and not because we are animal rights activists. Sea Shepherd concerns itself with marine conservation. It is not, and never has been, an animal rights organisation and, if it were, it would be one massive single issue campaign. Whatever good it may be doing for marine conservation, please do not argue that Sea Shepherd does anything intentional for either animal rights or veganism. If anything, it reinforces speciesism.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 12:35:40 +0000
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