@ragingloli Comparing it with animals dying when they are hit by a car is unfitting. How so? In many cases animals that are hit by cars are a result of urban sprawl. If people did not feel the need to ever encroach on rural areas that wild life live on, they would not have to compete with man for space.
@thorninmud If the major packers are under market pressure to offer only “dolphin safe: tuna, then the fishermen will be under pressure to adopt the technology. How is that to work anymore than the “Buy American” idea? You can’t get the majority of US citizens to insist on buying American to stem outsourcing, how will they ever get together to pay more for tuna but because no dolphins are harmed when the taste is not any better?
@Leanne1986 I don’t see how this isn’t logical to you. It is illogical to me because the fishermen did not target the dolphin because it was competition for the tuna, etc, their getting caught in a net is a byproduct of tuna fishing, no different than animals getting hit are a byproduct of us having ever wider roads, for our convenience. Unlike a developer who knows they are invading the habitat of foxes, owls, dear, etc, I don’t see people passing up on buying new homes because the developers bulldoze the habitats of native animals to make a profit.
@Coloma Watch the documentary ” The Cove”, to see the suffering of Dolphins at the hands of Japanese fishermen. Tragic and avoidable The dolphins in that were the intended target, not just caught up in the process of hunting or fishing other prey. To link it to tuna fished caught dolphins would be to say developers built roads through deer country so cars could plow them down better.
How much more are people willing to spend to say no dolphins were harmed in getting that can of tuna, $2.70, $4.25, etc?