# Not veal! Think of the dolphins! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939 "2004-07-26T15:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/21 "2004-07-28T16:25:30Z")
How can anyone not be aware of the plight of the veal after the poignant 60s TV show “Hoofer”? Whenever an emergency arose, which seemed to happen with alarming frequency for these people, Hoofer would stand calmly in a field, chewing his cud, occasionally dropping a commentary on the prairie. Touching, really. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/22 "2004-07-28T17:56:31Z")
Good lord people. It is so obvious that you are pulling this crap out of your ass. I mean how could this thread go on this long without mention of the Central Plains Red-Bellied Piranha? ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/23 "2004-07-28T19:24:00Z")
> [@Eats\_Crayons](#): > > :eek: Oh, man, I HATE snow sharks (aka. Great White). A friend of mine nearly lost his leg to one. You should see the bite it took out of his snowboard. I thought the snow shark was the _Lesser_ White. A fellow from the Shark Research Institute once told me that the term “Great White” implies the existence of a “Lesser White,” and if there isn’t any Lesser White, then the proper term would be simply White Shark. BTW, what kind of wine would go best with manatee veal? Or is orange schnapps better, as manatee is a Floridan creature? ---
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/24 "2004-07-28T19:49:52Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I thought the snow shark was the _Lesser_ White. A fellow from the Shark Research Institute once told me that the term “Great White” implies the existence of a “Lesser White,” and if there isn’t any Lesser White, then the proper term would be simply White Shark. I dare you to look a White Shark in the eye and tell him he’s not “great.” If an animal can turn your Adam’s Apple into ground meat in less than 2 seconds, it can call itself whatever it damn well pleases. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/25 "2004-07-28T20:10:45Z")
I have to say I think it’s funny when people flip out over a few dolphins accidentally getting caught in the tuna nets…What about the millions of tuna purposely caught in them. (BTW this isn’t anything moral (for me anyways), I just wondered where the logic train derailed…oh right, at the cute animal stop.) ---
**Author:** ![Kallessa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7993a0/32.png) [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/26 "2004-07-29T02:04:08Z")
> [@tofergregg](#): > > I though _Snow Sharks_ were accidentally released from a South American research lab and have been swarming their way to the U.S. for years. Weren’t they supposed to make Texas uninhabitable or something? > > -Tofer First, this implies that Texas is habitable, which is simply not true. Second, as **vunderbob** (Happy Birthday!!), said, there is not enough snow for them to migrate. Third, as **carrot** pointed out, you are actually thinking of the Killer (or _Africanized_) Bumblebee Tuna, which, contrary to popular belief, are not dangerous and are an excellent source of fish pollen, a substance that will greatly enhance your life. Unfortunately, some misguided free-thinker in the eighties, during an experiment seeking to prove that Bumblebee Tunas communicated by rocking back and forth with flippers moving up and down in a see-saw pattern (often called the caucasian dance theory of Tuna communication), addicted the entire Bumblebee Tuna population to the music of _Queen_, an addiction which has now firmly established itself in the DNA structure. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/27 "2004-07-29T02:09:30Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > I have to say I think it’s funny when people flip out over a few dolphins accidentally getting caught in the tuna nets…What about the millions of tuna purposely caught in them. > > (BTW this isn’t anything moral (for me anyways), I just wondered where the logic train derailed…oh right, at the cute animal stop.) Hey, when a tuna can stand on its tail and balance a ball on its nose, gimme a call. Until then, get in the can, Charlie! ---
**Author:** ![tart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@tart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tart)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/28 "2004-07-29T02:21:01Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > I have to say I think it’s funny when people flip out over a few dolphins accidentally getting caught in the tuna nets…What about the millions of tuna purposely caught in them. It’s because dolphins appear to be smiling. Tuna have been trying to master the art of applying waterproof lip liner for centuries. poor little buggers ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/29 "2004-07-29T04:51:04Z")
> [@Joey P](#): > > I have to say I think it’s funny when people flip out over a few dolphins accidentally getting caught in the tuna nets…What about the millions of tuna purposely caught in them. > > (BTW this isn’t anything moral (for me anyways), I just wondered where the logic train derailed…oh right, at the cute animal stop.) Or maybe that tuna are simply fish with no notable cognitive abilities and dolphins are intelligent mammals??? The tuna are eaten, the dolphin die wastefully. And the deep water dolphins caught in tuna nets are not “cute” in my opinion. Definitely not cute like bottle nosed dolphins. But they are intelligent, they are mammals, and they are not eaten. Three logical reason to NOT pointlessly slaughter them in nets. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/30 "2004-07-29T05:10:07Z")
When I was young my family raised schools of free-range mercury-free veal. Until our fields were invaded and ravaged by Evil Nazi Dogfish, which burrowed around so intensively that all the veal were lost when their feeding grounds suddenly dropped 50 feet straight down. We tried to set trot-lines, but they just wouldn’t bite. ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/31 "2004-07-29T05:33:24Z")
What’s great is, we all have at least one friend like the girl in the OP’s story. ---
**Author:** ![SuperDuperMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@SuperDuperMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperDuperMan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/32 "2004-07-29T05:45:59Z")
> [@Scuba\_Ben](#): > > I thought the snow shark was the _Lesser_ White. A fellow from the Shark Research Institute once told me that the term “Great White” implies the existence of a “Lesser White,” and if there isn’t any Lesser White, then the proper term would be simply White Shark. I think they call it that because Big Ass White Thing That Turned My Leg Into A Drumstick Shark was too long. ---
**Author:** ![Fox\_Paws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/85e7bf/32.png) [@Fox\_Paws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fox_Paws)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/33 "2004-07-29T13:02:30Z")
> [@RandMcnally](#): > > What’s great is, we all have at least one friend like the girl in the OP’s story. [counts to himself] Wow, I have six! Unfortunately, I only see one of those on a regular basis, and since she became a mom she seems to have been bitten by the Common Sense Fairy. She isn’t nearly as fun any more 😉 ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/34 "2004-07-29T13:25:44Z")
Bit by a faerie? :eek: Better check for rabies, baby. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/35 "2004-07-29T13:35:04Z")
From the “truth is stranger than ignorance” department: On Oprah yesterday, there was a woman who has speared by a marlin, but instead of hitting her lung (and probably killing her), the marlin hit her silicon breast implant. 😃 I kid you not. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/36 "2004-07-29T17:12:22Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > From the “truth is stranger than ignorance” department: On Oprah yesterday, there was a woman who has speared by a marlin, but instead of hitting her lung (and probably killing her), the marlin hit her silicon breast implant. 😃 > > I kid you not. Maybe she was referring to [Marlin Perkins](http://www.wildkingdom.com/history/marlinbio.html). That penile projection on his head looks dangerous to me. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/37 "2004-07-29T17:17:14Z")
I have a question. If dairy products, are unacceptable because of the living conditions the cows are subjected to, whould beef and veal be allowed if it was the result of Veterinarian Assisted Suicide performed to let the animal end its suffering? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/38 "2004-07-29T17:29:49Z")
Which is why it was decided to breed an animal that actually _wants_ to be eaten. And is capable of saying so, clearly and distinctly. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/39 "2004-07-29T17:43:01Z")
Frikkin’ suicidal cows. They always think it’s gonna be greener in the other Pasteur. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939/40 "2004-07-29T18:12:16Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Frikkin’ suicidal cows. They always think it’s gonna be greener in the other Pasteur. As opposed to swine who do not want to live any longer, and commit sooeycide… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/not-veal-think-of-the-dolphins/256939.md?page=3)