{"id":3645,"date":"2011-09-26T08:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T07:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2011-09-26T08:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T07:39:13","slug":"stupid-comment-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/stupid-comment-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid Comment of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"New York Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/23\/science\/23catch.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=cornelia%20dean&amp;st=cse\" target=\"_blank\">New Gear To Protect Sea Life<\/a> by Cornelia Dean in <em>The New York Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It\u2019s part of the collateral damage fishing causes,\u201d said Tim Werner, who directs the marine conservation engineering program at the New England Aquarium. \u201cYou deploy a net and catch a turtle, put out a pot for a lobster and entangle a whale, put out a trawl and pull up coral.\u201d\u00a0The problem affects marine species around the world, many of them endangered. Though much attention is paid to overfishing, \u201coften our greatest impact is not on the species we target to catch but the species we did not intend to catch,\u201d Mr. Werner said.\u00a0<strong>\u201cThe seafood on your plate,\u201d he added, \u201cis not the only animal that gave its life to feed you.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Grumpy Vegan wonders if Tim Werner asks personally every animal he eats if they&#8217;re willing to give their life to feed him. Further, what would he do if someone asked <em>him<\/em>\u00a0that question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Gear To Protect Sea Life by Cornelia Dean in The New York Times. &#8220;It\u2019s part of the collateral damage fishing causes,\u201d said Tim Werner, who directs the marine conservation engineering program at the New England Aquarium. \u201cYou deploy a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/26\/stupid-comment-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-moaning","tag-stupid-comment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}