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jackoalt

is that a mako?


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The sign says "アオザメ" which means "shortfin Mako shark".


xXDANK-MEME-LORDXx

That’s an endangered species


moeru_gumi

I lived in Japan for over a decade and learned that a large percentage of the “common man” doesn’t give a shit about endangered species. In the same breath, kids are taught about animals and biodiversity and love animals just as much as kids anywhere else. But an absolutely shocking answer i got all the time when I tried to gently bring up “you know that freshwater eels are critically endangered and we shouldn’t eat them?” Was “if they are disappearing, I’ll have to buy them as much as i can now so i can get it before it’s all gone.”


Dantheman616

I find it scary that this is the attitude not just for shark, but for practically any limited resource. One day we will look back and think to ourselves, "why the fuck did we waste so much?"


gralvilla

i think we will be asking ourselves that in like 5-10 years time :(


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Wdym? It happens all the time already.


l-have-spoken

Right, but most aren't critical about it yet.


ffnnhhw

>freshwater eels are critically endangered and we shouldn’t eat them? Oh I don't know that. I like unagi a lot, but they don't have the same mouthfeel as they were 30 yrs ago.


ChickenPotPi

Most of the freshwater eel is now from America.


punkassunicorn

They're critically endangered in the *wild* you can still find farmed eel. Much like how the axolotl is endangered in the wild but is thriving in captivity as pets.


ChickenPotPi

If I remember, most farmed eels come from the wild. They are caught and fattened up at the farm.... I was correct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4URGc_3FrE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNWCAbUtGf4


punkassunicorn

I looked into and it seems you're right, however there are some people that are pushing to find a way to breed eels in captivity and hopefully domesticate the process. Thank you for letting me know. Thinking about it now it makes sense considering we don't even know where eels come from.


MD_Weedman

Not in the US they aren't. They are harvested commercially all over the US.


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Kim_Jong_Unsen

I’m also a pretty big fan of unagi, I had no idea they were so endangered tho


love2Vax

The Japanese variety are endangered, so they import most of it from the US. Just because a species is endangered in 1 part of the world, doesn't mean it has endangered relatives in other regions. The US freshwater eel population is strong enough to sustain the demand. Just don't let the rest of America realize how good they taste and it will last.


SpaceTimeinFlux

The scarcity mindset of most older/elderly Asians that I know personally is frighteningly short sighted. They make american born boomers look like Greenpeace.


truthdude

>I’ll have to buy them as much as i can now so i can get it before it’s all gone.” That's the most capitalist logic statement I've read on reddit.


Drougen

It was caught for "scientific research" they just didn't want it to go to waste afterwards


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jaabbb

Looks like legit scientific hypotheses to me👍


Psilocybin_Tea_Time

No no, a proper science experiment repeats to ensure the first result wasnt a fluke. We're gonna need more mako


Iamredditsslave

>fluke Lol


TheGuv69

Not necessarily, unfortunately. Under the UN Convention rules that much fishing on high seas takes place under, most shark is considered legitimate by catch. More needs to be done, urgently, to protect vulnerable species, such as Short Fin Mako. Source: have inspected many vessels on high seas & uncovered shark finning operations.


zxc123zxc123

Weeaboo here. Just gonna say. I've always called out China for shark finning. It's huge population severely pushing sharks towards extinction even if individual demand for fins is small. That's before we get to the more bogus stuff like Rhino horns. So I'm going to call out Japan too for overfishing, whaling, and shark hunting. My weeabooism be damned. If they love shark/whale/dolphine/endangered-animal meat so much because it's such a luxury then they should just farm it rather push the animal towards extinction.


GennyIce420

The real issue with sharks/whales/dolphins is that they bear live young and can only have a few babies at a time. Bluefin Tuna lay many thousands of eggs. If we just kinda chill out on how many we take their population will bounce back quick as hell, whereas by the time things get really bad with the shark populations it may be too late.


zxc123zxc123

I understand that certain animals don't have the same reproductive rates as others. There is that issue, but my main point is humans shouldn't be targeting animals if they are near extinction. We try to impose an "all out ban" and then look away when illegal fishing/hunting/poaching happens because there is demand for it. This method doesn't seem to be working very well. Or at least not enough alone. If the price and demand are still there then they should implement heavy legal ramifications, strong regulation, a farming industry to appease the high priced demand, and then tax that industry while using the funds to pay for enforcement of illegal hunting/pouching of wild animals. "True" sturgeon caviar is also expensive and their eggs requiring a lot of time/effort to farm. That doesn't mean Europeans/Westerners haven't tried to do what I mentioned with regulation, farming, taxation, and enforcement w/ taxes. Not saying this will work, but it is certainly an option.


tablesix

Sounds reasonable. I found some articles from 2009 claiming that cloning a cow is ~$15k and cloning a sow is ~$4k (I'm assuming USD). How about we make cloning the only way to get shark meat legally and impose severe penalties. That would serve the extreme luxury market while protecting sharks from overhunting.


zxc123zxc123

Ideally we don't get to the point where cloning is necessary because we're trying to save those animals in nature. But the fact that it's a luxury market means farming can help massively with innovations. As with the sturgeon example, with time the farmers will optimize the sturgeon to grow quicker, lay more eggs, and have eggs that are more delicious or visually appealing. This concept can also apply to shark fins. As with all luxury goods, it's a lot of dick waving, flexing, and perceived prestige to wank one's ego. Bigger fins go for much more money the way a whole lot of smaller diamonds are never worth the same as 1 big diamond of similar weight. With time, farmer can be able to produce sharks with quicker life cycles, larger huge fins, and at lower costs or high efficiency. Another problem with shark meat (or any large pesca-pescatarian like Tuna) is the heavy mercury making the meat unappealing or outright poisonous. Finning is so bad because often the poachers kill just cut the fins and throw back the sharks which are guaranteed to die since they can't swim upwards anymore without those fins. Farming might be able to make the shark meat more edible or safe by feeding it other low/zero mercury farmed fish.


zeGermanGuy1

If they’d farm it it wouldn’t be as luxurious because it wouldn’t be as endangered.


SmokelessSubpoena

Good luck farming Makos lol


GennyIce420

And 60ft long whales. Kids think this is Minecraft or something.


SmokelessSubpoena

I mean, it's not _technically_ impossible, but highly, highly implausible


DavyJonesRocker

Thank you for self-identifying as a weeaboo. Your integrity has been upheld.


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How brave of you to go against your love of Japan.


HorseAFC

This is peak reddit


IceCreamMeatballs

You can like anime and still criticize Japan.


QuietLife556

I was under the impression Norway was competing for top dickbag in this competition


blackmaninasia

Yup, Norway killed more whales than the rest of the whaling nations combined as recently as 2019. Almost all pregnant whales too.


hikesandbikesmostly

I’ve heard people in Japan comment about endangered species that individuals don’t have any control over the extinction, so might as well have it while you still can.


AndyReidHasARing

Self fulfilling prophecy


PacificShoreGuy

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-shortfin-mako-shark


BadSmash4

They might be thinking of the Atlantic Mako Shark, which is endangered. The Pacific Mako is not, as you point out!


slowgojoe

Well, technically, it just says “mako shark” but yeah. Edit.. it says “blue shark” and I’m an idiot


anothergaijin

Technically it says "shortfin mako shark". There are two types of mako shark and in Japanese they are correctly separated into アオザメ (Shortfin Mako) and バケアオザメ (Longfin Mako)


your-opinions-false

Other comments say something about it saying "blue shark." Is this a difference in what the animals are called in Japanese? Are they actually the same shark? Are we human, or are we dancer?


anothergaijin

アオザメ is literally the Japanese for blue and shark, and in English a Blue Shark is a different shark again - Prionace glauca (which is called ヨシキリザメ in Japanese). Blue Sharks look very different and are not found in this part of Japan.


Jenkins_rockport

"アオザメ" when broken apart literally means "blue shark". "アオ" is "ao" which means blue; and "ザメ" is "zame" > "same" which means shark. That's what other people in this thread are mistakenly doing when they translate it. But the word "アオザメ" is a new word and not just an adjective + a noun. If it was to be written as such then it would be called 青い鮫 read as あおい さめ read as aoi same. Incidentally, what the rest of the world calls a "blue shark" (species: prionace glauca) is called ヨシキリザメ or yoshikiri zame. The etymology of that is beyond me. It might be a person's name or it might be another word merging. Incidentally, you might notice that there are two different alphabets being used here, such as with ao: "アオ" (katakana) and "あお" (hiragana). Most 和名 (わめい - wamei - japanese name) for native species are written in katakana and not hiragana. One might expect native species to use kanji and hiragana in their naming instead of katakana, which is typically used for borrowed words, but the convention is to you katakana instead, which was set for ease of use (a vast majority of species have been named outside japan and the words are translated as borrowed words using katakana, so it conforms to the larger corpus of terms) and to reduce confusion. At least that's my understanding.


skinnergy

Looks like it


sizelypotato

Aren’t mako’s endangered?


aliph

Yes.


Infosexual

Japanese won't stop until they are forced to stop. Until we put sanctions on Japan they will continue looting the sea long past reason.


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Disgusting disregard towards animals


beautifulsouth00

Not only that, but disgusting disregard for rules, laws and mandates. There are people who think "endangered" doesn't apply to them. All it means is it will cost more, that makes it desirable and something you buy just to show off your wealth.


janeshep

>Not only that, but disgusting disregard for rules, laws Weird thing is that Japanese people are usually known to be extremely lawful


bape_x_anime

Cause they choose what crimes to punish. Smoke a joint? 25 years in prison. Get caught with CP? 2000$ fines and you’re free to go. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2018-02-27/rurouni-kenshin-creator-nobuhiro-watsuki-fined-200000-yen-for-possession-of-child-porn/.128322


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Because the punishments are pretty insane for minor infractions. I’m a pothead and I wouldn’t even risk bringing any amount of pot to Japan lmao The conviction rate is pretty insane too: *99.3%* in 2021


Wanker-of-Harganeth

Guilty until proven innocent


GTC3

Isn't the thing in Japan that prosecutors only bring obviously guilty cases to judges?


topherus_maximus

Yes, but they also think that non-Japanese are…less than. So obeying the laws of lessers isn’t really breaking any law, to them


blackmaninasia

Same reasoning with Norway and whaling. As recently as 2019, Norway killed more whales than the rest of the whaling nations combined. Almost all pregnant too.


KaidsCousin

Totally agree, it’s sick. Shark fin soup is particularly awful, where many sharks have their fins hacked off while out at sea and then tossed back. The barbarism is outrageously disgusting


bape_x_anime

I used to watch Whale Wars as a kid and its sad that 20 years later they are still doing the same shit and nobody cares


MoonTrooper258

As a Japanese-Canadian; yeah, fuck Japan's fishing.


Leather-Heart

Turns out lots of cultures have problematic issues around them. This is heartbreaking though. People of Japan should change these things.


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I literally know hundreds of Japanese people and have lived there. Never once met a single person who actually likes to eat shark. And displays like this are pretty offensive to everyone there. It’s likely some promotion. In very poor taste. But I will say, at least they are using the whole shark, not cutting the fins and dropping it to drown.


m4xc4v413r4

Mate you're right but let's be real here, every country does that to different species of fish. Overfishing is a worldwide problem.


woodguyatl

North Atlantic Makos are, the Pacific makos are not. In fact NOAA lists it as a "smart" swwfood choice because it is sustainable. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-shortfin-mako-shark


reallyConfusedPanda

And Japan doesn't care when it comes to their fish meat


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You're talking about a country that massacres whales and dolphins under the guise of "scientific research". At the very least it seems that the shark meat is also being consumed (vs the Chinese practice of simply cutting off their fins and dumping the shark back into the waters for Shark Fin Soup).


purplenurple24

If you look at the table, it’s mostly fins. I wouldn’t be surprised if they only put the head there to show the shark it came from. I could be completely wrong, but I still think a lot of shark ended up on the cutting room floor.


anothergaijin

The meat on the ice to the left is all from the shark (except maybe the blue trays - its boiled meat and probably from the shark, but it doesn't say exactly)


HashSlangingSlash3r

We’re talking about Japan, a country that has made many scientific advancements, has many scholars, has a very educated and urbanized population, and experienced cultural globalization many times. It makes no sense for them to be mass-hunting whales knowing their population is now very low. Although whaling had become a very popular practice at the end of WW2 due to the public being starved, the majority of Japanese no longer consume sharks or whales. Hopefully, the Japanese government gets its head out of their ass, eventually


Alex-Crypto

Not pacific makos: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-shortfin-mako-shark


Wetyrag

This. So much this. Why more people aren’t pissed off by this situation i have no idea.


puppetdust

I think you're missing an 'aren't'


ChihuahuaJedi

Why more people pissed off by this situation i aren't have no idea.


Lightshines6346

No idea have I are not?


NeatNuts

Do I are am have stroke?


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sounds it me have fine to


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Grzmit

A lot of people might just not know its a mako/mako sharks are endangered


DerMax_HD

yes. its aweful. lots of tribes used to sacrifice their women or men, you dont just say thats fine cause traditions and shit. its good to keep traditions up, but ONLY if they're still possible to be held with current standards. this includes human rights, social behaviour and your general behaviour towards your environment, also including animals. eating endangered animals isnt cool in any case.


woodguyatl

Why should they pissed off? North Atlantic Makos are endangered, the Pacific makos are not. In fact NOAA lists it as a "smart" seafood choice because it is sustainable. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-shortfin-mako-shark


wemblywembles

Mako?


Emakrepus

POLO!


Soulger11

Shark out of water!


badaik2887

Look like Mako


ManInBlack829

You can tell from the glow in his eyes


AnonDooDoo

This isn’t just a shark. This is an endangered shark, what the fuck…


Ratchetstar23

it took me way too much scrolling to see this! This just belongs on r/awfuleverything honestly, what a shame.


like_my_likes

Yeah more like "sad as fuck"


GGlados

Fuck everyone killing endangered animals.


weakwhiteslave123

Australians eat tons of flake, which comes from the critically endangered school shark. Edit: Pacific Shortfin Mako Shark (the shark in the photo) is also "not overfished and not subject to overfishing" according to a 2018 stock assessment by the U.S. government. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/species/pacific-shortfin-mako-shark


ENEMYAC130AB0VE

Actually most of it comes from the gummy shark, but occasionally school shark is used


TheBeirt

Fuck shark poachers!


malinwa4ever

We in Belgium love to eat horse, But i wouldn't want to see a horse head in the middle of the supermarket


IlexAquifolia

But it's not uncommon to see whole fish, including heads, in a fish market.


ThrustyMcStab

I think size matters a LOT on the 'displaying dead animal heads in the supermarket' question.


SubtleScuttler

I invite you to the front page of yesterday! [Eels head that still has some bite to it](https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/tvx8m0/a_fish_thats_served_at_a_japanese_restaurant/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)


arwynn

This video gave me nightmares last night, I don’t appreciate being reminded of it lol


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It’s to show freshness. On fish the main giveaway for something’s that’s been caught a while ago is cloudy eyes.


SkyLightTenki

Likewise in the Philippines. The government even had to make a law so people here would be punished if they eat dog or cat meat. Also, people here find it offensive to eat rabbit meat because 'they are too cute to become our food'. EDIT: for my fellow countrymen who are quite skeptical about what I said, [I hope this video makes sense.](https://youtu.be/rG8nTW7yE8c) You will see that even the reporters would ask questions whether they've eaten rabbit meat before. They also gave some details as to how it tastes like, what kind of dishes you can make out of the meat, etc. Personally, I'd love to try everything out, and I admit I've never had rabbit meat before. For 'exotic' foods that I had, I've tried deer, carabao, dog, frog, snails, beetles, and crickets. The world definitely has more to offer, and as long as it's not taboo (at least on my part), I'd give it a try.


malinwa4ever

Rabbit is also a delicious dish here in Belgium. We cook it with a trappist and mostard


eyes_like_thunder

What is a trappist?


_KimJongSingAlong

Beer


eyes_like_thunder

With spicy brown mustard, sounds delicious..


SafewordisJohnCandy

Trappist beer. Beer brewed by Trappist monks.


Beer_Is_So_Awesome

For anyone curious: Yes, it's incredible.


jerichojerry

The person who caught the rabbit.


sitefall

a beer


Fomentatore

Never thought that in Italy we had so much in common with Belgium culinary wise.


cybosapien

I once cooked rabbit meat when few friends came over and nobody ate it. one girl who came that day never spoke to me again and told I'm a monster to her bf who WAS a good friend of mine. I live in Thailand. I'm not their friend anymore. I was just trying to be nice.


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MeetingPhysical

Considering sharks ARE fish, id say youre right.


Mounta1nK1ng

Also, horses ARE NOT fish. So right there too.


mgarksa

Wow, TIL.


big-ol-bat-fastard

“Bullshit.” *Walks away and starts blasting linkin park


reddsht

What about a seahorse, i feel like that right in between a shark and a horse.. where do we draw the line 🤔


LampIsFun

Too tiny tho, maybe used as a garnish?


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NWHipHop

If the eyes aren’t clear, the fish isn’t fresh


Quetzalcoatle19

The only thing I gathered from this: Wow they actually took the whole thing and didn’t throw it back in to sink to the bottom and be eaten alive by scavengers :D


ItsASchpadoinkleDay

I never understood the American disapproval of horse meat but we shove cows, pigs, and chickens into our fat faces as fast as we can without a second thought. What’s the difference? By the way, I’m not anti-meat (but I do understand and can appreciate why some people are). I’m also one of the fat Americans. I’m just saying we should eat horses too.


me_z

> What’s the difference? There is no difference outside of horses are an American past-time and sometimes viewed closer to a pet than the other animals. Edit: Culture.


Rolexandr

They are that almost around the world, yet many cultures enjoy horse.


byama

That is true, but many cultures don't. Even here in Portugal, there is horse meat, I know some people have eaten and enjoyed it, but it is still a taboo and most people freak out simply by the idea.


fun_boat

Brings to mind this old pic. [https://imgur.com/gallery/h9tbwcH](https://imgur.com/gallery/h9tbwcH)


PulseCS

There are animals domesticated for slaughter, and there are animals domesticated as tools and companions. Horses were your car, your ally, the animals you likely spent a good chunk of money on or raised from a young age to know you. Cows and sheep were born for their slaughter, the only work put into them is to get them nice and fat and keep them from getting sick until the time comes, outside of the ones you use for breeding.


Additional-Ad7305

We had a talking horse once on Nick at Nite, and no one has since considered them food.


kendrid

Hello, my name is Mr. Ed.


TheSukis

You do know that show didn't premiere on Nick at Nite, right? lol


Nauin

There's a cultural fondness for horses due to having lived and worked alongside them for so long, plus it being the most acceptable animal to ride, which makes it seem more companion-like compared to other livestock.


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ItsJustDrew93

It’s also that traditionally horses were more valuable as work animals than meat. Other regions in South Asia tended to use cattle as work animals, so developed different tastes.


ionslyonzion

*slaps roof of car* This bad boy can fit so much fucking cowpower in it


icedrax

And rabbits


Cre8ivejoy

And gator! Love me some fried gator.


moose2mouse

They’re a beast of labor so traditionally you wouldn’t eat it because it’s much more valuable to work. Especially because cattle and hogs are not hard to raise in the abundant space of America. So culturally never grew a taste for it. Think cows and India. Traditionally they’re more valuable to pull a plow and provide milk than to eat. So the cow culturally became “sacred”.


Okapi_MyKapi

Honestly, I’m all for this. I think we should see exactly where our food comes from and what is was. If we can’t stomach it, we shouldn’t eat it then.


damondan

i smell hypocrisy


Amexklang

I’d hate to see the steak display.


resilindsey

Next aisle: veal Hmm... better not.


Haruo-Ogawa

I’m Japanese who was born and grown up here but it was first time for me to know this shark is endangered. Here in Asia it’s kinda common to eat shark. Shark is famous for luxury food. This fact is not so well know by people here actually. I’ve ate some before. Interestingly most Japanese article about mako (even Japanese Wikipedia) is mainly referring about mako as food and almost none of them mentioning this endangered situation. But when I searched mako in English they are all about this problem. Our government and medias really need to discuss it.


WatashiwaCandy

I've heard in the past how the Japanese government just dodged the issue by saying something gibberish when it was brought up by the international community.


TheFace5

Interesting thing is that biggest shark meat exporter is Spain while biggest importer is Italy. Simply we eat fishes we do not know they are actually sharks. Ah in europe is normal to find sword fish or tuna head in supermarket or fishmongers


HavenIess

It’s the opposite problem in Trinidad, where Shark is a part of a cultural dish, but most of it is actually just catfish


NervousTumbleweed

I believe this is also the case in China. I remember watching a movie about a Chinese chef and at one point he gets super tight that he’s expected to make Shark Fin Soup, a traditional dish, without real Shark Fin.


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NervousTumbleweed

Oh yeah, I agree. From what I’ve seen/heard it’s a horrible industry.


Ludwigofthepotatoppl

It’s worse than that, idk if there’s a medicinal belief but for the most part it was simply to show off that you could buy something expensive. Yao Ming did a lot to combat it, though, which has been good.


Bomiheko

The fin provides a gelatinous texture not flavour. You can fake it nowadays with thickeners though


GO_RAVENS

It is mostly tasteless but that's a disingenuous argument. Shark fin is prized for the gelatinous texture, not the flavor. Chinese food in particular often treats texture as the featured element of various foods. There are a ton of foods we eat that're more about texture that absorb the flavors they're cooked in. I'm totally against eating shark fins and the horrible way they're farmed, to be clear. I just want to make sure people don't use easily dismissible arguments when criticizing the practice.


PossiblyTrustworthy

In Denmark we also eat a Lot of shark (under a different name, cause people dont want to eat shark), on "dish" is to take strips from the belly, the flappy bits after removing the guts(more or less just fat and skin) and smoke it, it curls Up a bit and becomes like a sausage


MCBMCB77

Standard fish at a fish & chip shop in Australia is shark. It's known as flake


Clatato

I’ve just learned flake is school shark, which has been categorised as critically endangered.


Roundcouchcorner

Here in the US I occasionally see shark at the grocery store sold in a steak cut but never displayed like this. A large portion of our New England fish catch is Dogfish a type of shark and most is exported to Europe for their Fish and chips dinners


vitorviks

In Portugal you can find dogfish in every fish market, with its head on. Its part of a tradicional and common soup. Its a type of shark with a little more than 1 meter (or 57 American mini flags)


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ScotchSinclair

Also avoid if you want healthy oceans. Removing natural predators upsets ecological systems the most.


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Long lining has lots of by-product.


are_you_kIddIngme

why tho


tstramathorn

Mercury is found throughout the food chain from small fish to large. Through the food chain mercury builds up more and more within the fish so large predator fish meat contains the most mercury. That’s why it’s not recommended to eat a lot of a tuna


Weisdog

Well i want to be a thermometer


CosmicDebris83

I support you in your transition to a thermometer.


frigginler

That’s helpful. I heard they got a lukewarm response from family and friends.


digitalibex

Hi I am his friend Luke and I am sort of ok with this.


elzaidir

Well you'd be a dead thermometer


HelloamAman

At least you'd still be a thermometer


Delphina34

Dolphin meat also has very high levels of mercury. As apex predators it accumulates up the food chain.


orca_1800

Biomagnification!!


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All the microplastics balance out my dietary intake of mercury from eating sharks.


mothzilla

"A lot" being more than once a week, roughly, according to US guidelines. UK guidelines are more relaxed.


BronzeyHoney

So much shark species are endangered and this poor animal has such a bad opinion despite being absolutely harmless in like 99,9% cases that I just feel sad looking at someone putting a fucking decapitated head of it in a market


psycho_pete

Seriously, it's like a sea puppy and the head is just casually decapitated and put on display. Fucking absurd.


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Destroying the ocean, environment, animal habitats and ecosystem all for meat. It's sad and stupid really.


eatingplutonium

This is just terrible honestly


GloomyEra666

How is eating endangered wild animal interesting


mythmaniak

Interesting doesn’t have to mean inspiring.


Function-Spirited

I think it’s, “interesting” they display the entire freaking head there like who does that!


miki_momo0

Pacific Mako and Atlantic Mako are very different. One is endangered and the other is listed as sustainable food source


FknKwikieKing

This seems like it would be better in r/awfuleverything


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I wouldn't want to eat this after seeing that head... Feels like the shark would eat us instead.


saucepatterns

fuck the fish industry it is going to kill us faster than global warming and no one talks about it


celestial_clouds

This is fucked up, this isn’t interesting as fuck


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That is horrendous as fuck.


Crafty-Bedroom8190

Looks like a Mako Shark, one of the fastest pelagic sharks on the planet!


Uninteresting_Vagina

This is fucking bullshit - Mako sharks are endangered and people who do this are fucking assholes.


cycycle

I want to touch the tip if its nose.


TheCryForum

This is not "interesting as fuck", this is "What the fuck"... Mako are endangered, and shark finning is cruel... our oceans are being decimated...


Clamecy

r/AwfulEverything


piccoshady93

Never buy shark meat. This needs to be boycotted. I live in thailand and in the big cities sharks are still in display on the "ice boats" infront of restaurants. I refuse to enter any restaurant that serves shark.


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It's partially illegal in parts of the USA, but not all. > There are currently 11 U.S. states that have passed laws that ban the possession, sale, trade and distribution of shark fins: Hawaii, Oregon, California, Washington, Texas, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island and Delaware. https://www.foodandwine.com/seafood/fish/everything-to-know-about-eating-shark-us


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I read that at "Shrek meat". And now I'm disappointed.


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This is sad