Comments on Tod's Continued Descent into Lunacy: Sea Pigs

You are the man. Thanks for pointing out the fact...

2010-05-30T00:25:47.872-07:00

You are the man. Thanks for pointing out the fact that there is nothing wrong wit eating dolphins. They're the gang-raping thugs who kill their own young and murder porpoises for target-practice. More and more, the people are actually realizing that these animals are wild animals that are violent like most wild animals are, and when they feel like it, will kill in an instant. Flipper really did some damage to the psyche of the Western populations. It's a shame, really. Dolphin meat tastes just as good as any other meat when treated well, just like other meats do when they are treated well.

So I finally saw The Cove a few weeks ago and I fi...

2010-03-03T16:09:26.216-08:00

So I finally saw The Cove a few weeks ago and I finally learned why we don't eat that delicious pre-brined sea bacon you desperately crave. It's toxic! Dolphins are at the top of the food chain and thus are full of mercury. Some of the meat tested in the film was way, way, way above (500x if I'm remembering correctly) the government guidelines for allowable amounts of mercury in seafood (which some argue is too high anyway). So it's the birth defects and general reproductive dysfunction that necessitates not eating dolphin.

Striking Distance was set on a river...not the sea...

2009-10-02T10:19:01.762-07:00

Striking Distance was set on a river...not the sea. He was a river pig.

If they didn't want him to make waves...why'd they put him in the water?

I thought a sea pig was someone like Bruce Willis&...

2009-10-01T22:09:40.062-07:00

I thought a sea pig was someone like Bruce Willis's character in the movie "Striking Distance."

Dophins do not look edible. They are too sleek.

2009-10-01T20:58:49.392-07:00

Dophins do not look edible. They are too sleek.

I've been giving this a little more thought an...

2009-10-01T14:59:17.777-07:00

I've been giving this a little more thought and I think it's unlikely that dolphins are that tasty...

The real scandal of The Cove isn't so much the dolphin slaughter but that the meat is then serripticiously funneled into the school lunch program.
Now...Japan is rather prideful in its consumption of whale meat (http://www.flickr.com/photos/eyesofrc/2165618616/) inspite of an international ban on whaling. Yet they keep their dolphin consumption on the downlow, the qt, very hush-hush. There's either something very taboo about dolphin consumption or perhaps it's just not tasty (like whale meat) and thus not worthy of the international scorn. Furthermore, dolphin is served in school lunches. I'm certain that you were never served anything remotely tasty on a plastic segmented plate-tray by a woman in a hairnet while in school. School lunches do not taste good and if dolphin meat is reserved for school lunch...dolphin does not taste good.

@M.R. I already covered that point.. "But as...

2009-10-01T10:00:00.450-07:00

@M.R. I already covered that point.. "But as far as the precision goes, it does not really matter. This is the Internet. It just has to sound precise. And it does. And it has to be roughly believable. And it is. So, following those rough principles, I can say pretty much whatever I want."

Or, to be more concise - I don't actually do the things I say. I just say them.

Until you actually confirm that dolphin tastes as ...

2009-10-01T09:47:58.863-07:00

Until you actually confirm that dolphin tastes as good or even better than bacon your arguments are all irrelevant.

First!

2009-10-01T09:45:55.467-07:00

First!

well, maybe that is why I couldn't leave a com...

2009-10-01T09:25:07.666-07:00

well, maybe that is why I couldn't leave a comment since I would have taken the happiness away from "first!"

Even if you called a dolphin a "sea pig" I wouldn't eat it, but then again I don't eat pig, or anything with flesh for that matter.

First!

2009-10-01T09:01:17.930-07:00

First!