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	<title>Comments on: Desire for Pacific bluefin puts fish on red list of threatened species</title>
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		<title>By: Mark Caponigro</title>
		<link>http://smithsonianscience.org/2015/01/desire-pacific-bluefin-puts-fish-red-list-threatened-species/#comment-26384</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Caponigro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So long as we continue to think of tuna and other marine animals as &quot;resources,&quot; we will never cease misunderstanding our place in the world, including ocean ecosystems, and will never cease committing grave injustices against our fellow living creatures.


So far as tunas and other marine animals are concerned, there can anyway never be such a thing as a &quot;sustainable fishery,&quot; correctly understood.  The term belongs to an old-fashioned, proto-scientific way of thinking at best.  In fact, ecosystems are far vaster and more complex than we can understand at all well; the interplay of organisms is too hard to comprehend; and then, the effects of global warming / climate change, including especially the increasing acidification of ocean waters, are an important and huge new set of factors.  So for a number of reasons, the prudent thing is to give up expecting tunas ever again to be reducible to a menu item.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So long as we continue to think of tuna and other marine animals as &#8220;resources,&#8221; we will never cease misunderstanding our place in the world, including ocean ecosystems, and will never cease committing grave injustices against our fellow living creatures.</p>
<p>So far as tunas and other marine animals are concerned, there can anyway never be such a thing as a &#8220;sustainable fishery,&#8221; correctly understood.  The term belongs to an old-fashioned, proto-scientific way of thinking at best.  In fact, ecosystems are far vaster and more complex than we can understand at all well; the interplay of organisms is too hard to comprehend; and then, the effects of global warming / climate change, including especially the increasing acidification of ocean waters, are an important and huge new set of factors.  So for a number of reasons, the prudent thing is to give up expecting tunas ever again to be reducible to a menu item.</p>
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		<title>By: MaryFinelli</title>
		<link>http://smithsonianscience.org/2015/01/desire-pacific-bluefin-puts-fish-red-list-threatened-species/#comment-26383</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MaryFinelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Request that they offer vegan alternatives instead.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Request that they offer vegan alternatives instead.</p>
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		<title>By: MaryFinelli</title>
		<link>http://smithsonianscience.org/2015/01/desire-pacific-bluefin-puts-fish-red-list-threatened-species/#comment-26382</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[MaryFinelli]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As stated by renown marine biologist Sylvia Earle: &quot;What about the tuna? When can the ocean be safe for them, too, from large scale killing by humans, at least? The problem is not setting nets around whale sharks to catch tuna. The problem is treating tuna -- wild animals -- as commodities. Save the tuna! Save the ocean! Save ourselves!&quot; 


Indeed, we need to acknowledge tunas as the sentient beings they are and stop treating them like food. If you eat seafood, opt exclusively for the many marvelous vegan seafood alternatives that are convenient, affordable, and delicious - including vegan tuna. Recipes, products and more, along with more information about why we should genuinely respect and protect fish can be found on the Fish Feel website.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As stated by renown marine biologist Sylvia Earle: &#8220;What about the tuna? When can the ocean be safe for them, too, from large scale killing by humans, at least? The problem is not setting nets around whale sharks to catch tuna. The problem is treating tuna &#8212; wild animals &#8212; as commodities. Save the tuna! Save the ocean! Save ourselves!&#8221; </p>
<p>Indeed, we need to acknowledge tunas as the sentient beings they are and stop treating them like food. If you eat seafood, opt exclusively for the many marvelous vegan seafood alternatives that are convenient, affordable, and delicious &#8211; including vegan tuna. Recipes, products and more, along with more information about why we should genuinely respect and protect fish can be found on the Fish Feel website.</p>
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		<title>By: Irina Temnikova</title>
		<link>http://smithsonianscience.org/2015/01/desire-pacific-bluefin-puts-fish-red-list-threatened-species/#comment-26379</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irina Temnikova]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 11:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I absolutely agree with you!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I absolutely agree with you!</p>
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		<title>By: C Kilduff</title>
		<link>http://smithsonianscience.org/2015/01/desire-pacific-bluefin-puts-fish-red-list-threatened-species/#comment-26374</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[C Kilduff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boycott bluefin tuna. Like the boycott on Facebook and ask your local sushi restaurant to stop serving it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boycott bluefin tuna. Like the boycott on Facebook and ask your local sushi restaurant to stop serving it.</p>
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