Urban Nature Pictures 3/11, plus some links

[urbpan]

I've been sitting on this hermaphrodite chicken story for a while, and then I heard them talking about it on NPR. I just wanted to use my tag again.

I didn't eat any whale while I was in Greenland, though I saw it for sale. If I'd known it was so forbidden in the US I might have, just for the experience. There they eat the non-endangered Minke whale. If you wanted some meat from an endangered Sei whale, then you could have gone to HUMP, a sushi restaurant in L.A. until recently, but then the Feds shut them down for selling horse and whale meat. (For the record: I am against selling endangered whale meat, very much FOR selling horse meat.)

HEY look at the cool frog!

Comments

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, but the processing was already happening and was made illegal, which is silly. It wasn't made illegal because of the difficulty or risk involved, but on a solely sentimental basis.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

sure, and the cowboy used to be a vital part of our food supply chain too. nostalgia for the technology of a bygone era is no reason to support an impractical new system to replace something that's already long gone and not much missed.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Still the problem of what to do with those horse carcasses.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

i thought earth-movers and lime were standard?

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

though in fact, seeing as how active the local (by which i mean lj) taxidermy-art communities are, i'm not at all uncertain it would be unprofitable for some taxidermy types to be on hand to recover interesting/popular bits (skulls, say). but that would take some organizing, and you still need the lime pits.