Quote Originally Posted by Witis View Post
By contrast fish are designed entirely differently. In the case of the grey nurse shark their criminal behaviours begin during pregnancy where there are approximately 20 shark pups in each uterus, the fastest developing pups eat all the other pups until there is only one pup left in each uterus - that's fratricide.

They will eat each other just for the hell of it - that's homicide and cannibalism.

Also they never stop growing, meaning that if you created a robotic shark it would continue to eat and grow until it takes over the universe, unless you kill it first.

So by eating fish you are saving the universe.

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It certainly isn't for the hell of it. There's a reason for that. You see it all over the place, too. There are lots of birds where the first born will push the rest out of the nest, or kill them. When a new queen bee hatches, it will generally sting and kill any other queen pupae not yet hatched. This isn't done for the hell of it, it's done because of competition for limitted resources.

As for cows and sheep, they have been bred domestically for thousands of years. We weren't breeding hostility or territoriality into them, for sure. Non-domestic animals don't play so nicely. Elk, deer, and every other ungulate that I am aware of, will kill each other. Deer have eaten baby birds, and it is likely that cows will, too. Pigs can be vicious, as can all domesticated fowl.

Meanwhile, you mention only sharks. Do you eat sharks? Maybe you do, but you have shown several pictures of salmon nigiri. Salmon do eat other fish, including other salmon (if they can), but not all fish do. How about tilapia? Do you not eat tilapia since they are vegetarian?

By the way, do you eat mushrooms? Do you care whether they are parasitic?