2y ago

hypocrite.

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Strawman.
What people are justifiably concerned about is pollution causing death and disease. Fuck off with this hYpOcRiSy bullshit
- Fuck off with this hYpOcRiSy bullshit
  I don't even find it hypocritical... I'd be sad too if I couldn't eat the fish... It could have at least died to fit in my belly rather than just dying for no good reason.
  
  Or some other creature that eats fish. Every death in nature should benefit someone, ideally. 😕 Us or other animals.
- Guarantee the person who made this is a vegan.
  
  You'd hope so, the more the better for the planet
- OP is minimizing an actually very important issue. They may as well work for an oil company (and they very well might)
- who do you think pollutes the waters? you get 3 tries but no phone-a-friend
  
  Mostly China and India.
I know it's a meme, but is anyone actually sad for the fish? I thought we were terrified about what was happening to our food. If someone autopsied a downed cow and a bunch of toxic plastic shit spilled from their stomachs, we aren't thinking "poor cow ate all that plastic and died." We're worried about our food supply.
- Lots of people are sad for the fish, but they're usually vegan
  
  I'm sad for the fish because if they're gone I can't eat them, and they can't eat the tasty little fish, and they miss out on all that lovely tasty phytoplankton...
  
  I'm sure a lion is gonna feel really bad for a human if they choke on plastic instead of getting to feed a lion.
- I'm sad for the fish. Imaging being forced into a massive pile of others just like you while being crushed by the weight of them and suffocating to death. It's fucked up
  
  That has more to do with farming practices though, not plastic pollution.
  
  Mmmmm smoked kippers. 🤤
  
  Lol OK.
- It is sad and gross in a way that's hard to pin down. I can find nature both beautiful and delicious at the same time.
If a fish die of plastic, you probably eat plastic while eating fish
- Don't think there is any probably anymore. You are eating plastic no matter what.
  
  Might as well leave the cheese singles wrapped while you eat it; you're getting the plastic anyway.🤷🏻‍♂️
- Then we die of plastic
We're not just eating tons per day, we're eating about 430-ish metric kilotons per day.
- Yeah, everything just sounds bigger on the metric system though
  
  A metric ton is 40lbs more than a 'long ton'
- How many per day are replenished then?
Maybe the latter has something to do with the former. Fish die from plastic; no fish to eat.
- This made me cry
- Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
  Kill a man's fish with plastic ... you don't feed that fish to him.
#govegan
- that doesn't stop either of the problems.
  
  easily solves the first one and helps with the second one as discarded fishing nets are a large source of plastic in the ocean
- Both are bad
I <3 the micro plastics in my body ✨️✨️
- It's like additional electrolytes!
People here are talking about fishes as our food source but what about fishes as a food source for other aquatic life? Or other animals that feed on those marine life? The effects can be far reaching. So the implication of a fish dying from plastic is a bit more complicated than what OP's making it out to be
- We can avoid eating animals though
It's weird. I don't like most fish, but I really don't have an ethical problem in general with eating fish as long as they were harvested sustainably. Unfortunately, most of the saltwater fish I have enjoyed over the years- shark and swordfish steak, cod, tuna- are not harvested sustainably, so I don't eat them. That pretty much leaves me with farmed trout and catfish, the only two other fish I like. And I just don't feel like it's the same as eating a cow or a chicken. Maybe I don't have any actual scientific basis to go on, but fish are just so different from us and so much more primitive that it just doesn't bother me.
Thats why I'm a pesca-pescatarian, I only eat fish that eat other fish. (joke stolen from Silicon Valley)
I love sushi. I'm going to have all you can eat next week and I'm gonna eat so much I shit myself. It's gonna be fucking awesome.
Comments have been locked due to toxicity. Sorry op.

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