Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says

Re:Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says by StavrosK on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:07AM (#21135966)

Personally, I don't mind fish, they smell and taste like nothing to me. I hate crustaceans/etc because they look disgusting, basically cockroaches of the sea. I can't understand how people look at them and still eat them (obligatory XKCD here https://www.xkcd.com/1268/).

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Re:Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says by DonHopkins on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:22AM (#21137421)

I was eating dinner at a Thai restaurant with an ideological vegetarian friend of mine, when I noticed that he ordered prawns.

So I teased him with "For heaven's sake, John! You're a vegetarian! Why are you eating Prawns??? Prawns are insects!!!" fully expecting to have an enjoyable argument about whether or not prawns qualified as insects for the purpose of vegetarianism, a hill I was willing to die on, for which I had a bunch of subjective emotional aesthetic talking points locked and loaded.

But he headed me off at the pass by accepting my premise and shutting me up: "Of course I eat insects. Insects are the enemy! We MUST eat them!!!"

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Re:Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says by Falling3 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:16PM (#21141355)

Shrimping is so bad for the environment and other marine life. The amount of bycatch involved is disturbing. He made a pretty lousy argument.

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Re:Ocean plastic waste probably comes from ships, report says by StavrosK on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @11:26AM (#21137460)

Damnit. He has a point.

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