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Dolphin Safe - 27 July 1999
Last week, I visited the new aquarium in Newport near Cincinnati. It was a
wonderful building that was half empty, but they charged me full admission
anyway. Which is like trying to sell a bag of chips that's half-filled with air.
At one of the first exhibits that I was herded through, I walked up to a tank,
and saw nothing at all, I was about to walk away, figuring that the fish had not
yet moved in. when I noticed that there were many very tiny fish in the tank, I
put my face closer to the glass to see better and commented to the person next
to me that this was a nice exhibit and that the fish were very cute. The person
calmly pointed out to me that the little fish were the food for the actual
creature on display in that tank. upon closer inspection I noticed, cowering
behind a
plant, a horrendously misshapen creature about the size of my barbecue grill,
covered in what looked like barnacles. As I stared into it's beady little eyes,
I couldn't help but acknowledge that if millions of these creatures were being
killed each year in tuna nets, and you decided to invite all of the people in
the world who cared to your house, you probably would not have enough people for
a proper game of monopoly. Of course, it would still be more than the number of
people who care that millions of tuna are being killed in the tuna nets.
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