western consumerist values is driven in deed by market demands, The problem with this little paradigm is that is not sustainable, or even questions it ethical foundation.

Of course 95% of humanity would not even understand the concepts I'm talking about, tehrefore humanity will cease to exist thanks to it's own stupidity.

It is not about tuna, it is about intelligence.

Have to say, that in a globalized era, this values apply to the rest of the world. Adam Smith def couldn't see into the future to see how his theorems will drive greed to the point of implosion.

I hear Charlie the Tuna is prowling the black market for nuclear bomb components.

The problem won't stop once the bluefin are extinct, it'll just move onto the next big/easy/tasty fish. That Mistubishi is hoarding the fish against future scarcity is a distinct acknowledgement of the problem.

Eating something to extinction is short sighted and stupid. And if the West stops harvesting the fish, the Japanese will just collect more of it cheaper.

That's sort of the problem with any sort of conservation nowadays: If I cut my consumption of something it just leaves more of it for assholes.

What is Charlie the tuna's take on this situation?

I'm surprised a company hasn't figured out how to farm raise Bluefin tuna yet given how expensive it is

They're impossible to farm because they're fast, far-ranging fish. They get big because they eat a lot of other fish (hence the warnings about mercury content because as predators, they accumulate toxins from their prey) and because they get a lot of exercise swimming in large swaths of ocean chasing down that prey. You'd have a hard time growing enough smaller fish to feed bluefin in captivity, never mind the enormous fish pens you'd have to use to give them enough room to move around in but keep them from escaping.

They already did that and it was one of the factors for a World War!

Japan loves fish and their diet mainly consist of Seafood, their economy also depends on this.

Go rent "The Cove" and everything will become clear.

Didnt they say in The Cove that the organization offered to pay them the same amount they were earning from fishing not to fish- and they declined? What would we say if people began eating lions?

We are all buying korean products now anyway...

No, we're not. We're all buying Chinese products. Korea is so 1990s.

perhaps too intellectually stimulating for most people.

BTW: there is more than one documentary that talks about this issue but still obscure for most people.

There are FREE movies that totally relevant, but they are oh so boring.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8zljd_the-future-of-food-the-future-of-fo_shortfilms

Do you realize if those nips did this 75 years ago and they all died of starvation there would never have been a Pearl Harbor?

Hahah it is funny 'cause it is racist. Good one!

Japan should just start occupying their neighbors for useful resources and see how that goes...

along with cannibalization..

Japan's population is falling. More people die than are born and immigration is not a realistic option. Maybe Japan wants to drag some other species down with them. Or maybe it's just that tasty.

Don't you know that as a divine race they have a divine right to divinely glean the oceans of all edible life.

Amen.

Immigration is not a realistic option only because they're too xenophobic.