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Japanese Creating "Super Tuna"
motherpusbucket writes "The Telegraph reports that Japanese scientists hope to be breeding a so-called 'Super Tuna' within the next decade or so. They have about 60% of the genome mapped and expect to finish it in the next couple months. The new breed will grow faster, taste good, have resistance to disease and will totally kick your ass if you cross them."
Or you know, we could just stop overfishing them.
WTF is wrong with you people?
Instead of questioning ourselves on our energy consumption, we just hope that tomorrow will bring new photovoltaic modules with 12000% efficiency.
Instead of questioning ourselves on the fact that we eat too much meat and fish, we keep on depleting fish resources around the world, while some Japanese (incidentally, the biggest tuna consumers & fishers) scientists might come with a super-tuna "next decade or so".
Problem is, it might already be too late.
It is high time we learned to take some responsibilities and stop relying on dubious techno-science stuff.
Look at the fertility rates in countries where starvation and famine aren't a problem (Western Europe, US, Japan). Then, compare that with the fertility rates in sub-Saharan Africa.
Yeah, because there are no differences between western countries and sub-Saharan Africa other than the amount of food available. No economic differences, cultural differences, environmental differences, etc. Nice controlled scientific experiment there.
Honestly, the argument the GP is making is that we should, by our inaction, allow some poor people in some far away country to starve to death.
I don't think that is really his argument. From what I can tell, his argument is that rather than trying to continually increase resources which will eventually reach a natural limit, we should try to moderate consumption. The post isn't too specific about how to do that, but population control is only one likely component of a real plan. Others might be lessened consumerism and increased efficiency.
But really, your argument seems to come down to this: any behavior/planning which doesn't lead immediately to feeding poor people in far away countries is immoral, and people who engage in such behavior should kill themselves. So what did you eat yesterday, and why didn't you send that food to sub-Saharan Africa? What are you doing posting on Slashdot today when you could be using that time to make more money to feed poor children?
And another question that always bothers me a little: why should poor people starving in far away countries bother me more than poor people starving in my own country?