DailyDirt: Endangered Or Extinct Meals
from the urls-we-dig-up dept
Getting a craving for a McRib when it’s just not available from the golden arches is definitely a first-world problem. There was also that brief period of time when Hostess Brands’ Twinkies weren’t for sale. Fortunately, these junk food shortages are relatively short-lived events, and if anyone really, really wanted to re-create a homemade version of these products, it wouldn’t be impossible. However, some foods are actually gone forever (or are on their way to extinction). Here are just a few foods that probably haven’t been on your dinner plate.
- The passenger pigeon was probably the most abundant bird on the planet.. until they were hunted out of existence. Americans used to be able to easily grab a passenger pigeon dinner during its nesting season, but the last known specimen died in a Cincinnati zoo in 1914. [url]
- Sea urchins from the Atlantic ocean are disappearing. Maybe it’s due to over-fishing or maybe an invasive kelp is killing off these creatures, but in any case, if you like uni with your sushi — you might want to savor it a bit. [url]
- Whale meat is a not-so-uncommon item on the menu in Japan, but some whale species are getting more rare. Yes, whale sushi is always uncooked, but it might also get harder to find…. [url]
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Comments on “DailyDirt: Endangered Or Extinct Meals”
Just recently a Saudi Prince led a hunting party that killed more than 2,000 endangered birds;
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/21/saudi-prince-hunts-birds-endangered-species-_n_5187319.html
People are idiots who learn nothing from the past. They won’t be happy until every animal in the world has been hunted to extinction.
well, duh
And just about every other creature on this planet, in the LAST 500 years…Advent of Gun powder and the Mechanical age has decimated MANY animals…
Then ADd to is the Advent of MODERNIZED FARMING, in the last 100…WE kill off insects and Animals alike.
Between Modern SHIPS, fishing them to death, OVEr populations in the countries that RELY on fishing..
It used to take 6-12 months at sea on a Wooden BOAT to get a full ship of Whales..AND STILL that wasnt LOTS, but Even Then they saw a decline. Whales are not RATS, 1 and maybe 2 Calves per year..
And the Sailing fleets dont give a DARN what they catch..IF its edible, they will EAT IT..
Do I have to say anything about POLLUTION.. And SHIPS losing oil and DUMPING ballast, in he waters?
The Gov. has a list of locations and someone did a CHART showing the MAJOR points in the USA polluted over the years..Im talking about the 1850’s ON..and the EAST coast is saturated.. Cleanup sites that will NEVEr be clean.
Cloning, anyone? (Then again, if animals could be cloned, “Star Trek IV” would have been a very different movie.)