Comments on: Should We Let Giant Pandas Go Extinct?

By: poned

poned — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 06:51:53 +0000

So, save the cute animals, don't care about the ugly? Like let's take the Yangtze river doliphin, also from China. Ladt huge extingtion of a mammal. It looked like a big peice of pink fat with pig eyes. Never would of made it in a drawing or painting, or anything people would buy. But if it was big and fluffy and cute, it probobly wouldn't be extint.

By: poned

poned — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:51:53 +0000

By: Janet Vandenabeele

Janet Vandenabeele — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:47:08 +0000

This is similar to the uproar over the Spotted Owl from years back. True conservation isn't about saving a single species; it's about preserving entire habitats. You don't save the panda, you save where it lives. You find sustainable products and processes. In turn, this saves a lot of species.

Of course, you still need to poke people with the PR pitch now and then: Don't eat pandas (PEOPLE EAT PANDA MEAT???), don't eat whales, don't eat/medicate with/starve then fear tigers or rhinos, careful with the sharks, too … don't wear cheetahs … don't make ashtrays from gorillas … try to catch tuna, not dolphins, etc…

By: jozjozjoz

jozjozjoz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:39:43 +0000

I am totally laughing at the thought of Lucky Panda Foot. They'd be so big and heavy to carry around.

How about Lucky BABY Panda Foot?!

By: mjrdomo

mjrdomo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:20:31 +0000

exactly! that's what i'm saying! speaking of panda express, i just saw a pe commercial and those pandas were more violent and plotting and abusive to humans than the cute, cuddly Ursidae we think we know…and then there is the panda that has bitten three humans in a china zoo! ok, the people were studpid enough to get in the exhibit with a bear (no doubt darwin candidates), but still. perhaps panda tomato or panda, tofu, and cabbage IS a solution.panda jerky? lucky panda foot?

By: jozjozjoz

jozjozjoz — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:47:24 +0000

If someone did this, they could actually serve panda meat at Panda Express! How about Orange Panda or Mongolian Panda and Broccoli??? Mmmm… PANDA!

By: mjrdomo

mjrdomo — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:10:52 +0000

how about we just raise them domestically like cattle? that way we could keep them around for future generations AND develop some tasty recipes for them. ok ok ok, i guess i should not actually advocate panda steaks, panda stew, or panda burgers, but there would seem to be a market for them…look what we've done with the ostrich, quail, turtle, bison, and kangaroo.

before i get hate-mail…i'm just kidding…well, mostly kidding…

By: Linda Chan

Linda Chan — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:19:33 +0000

I see his point too, about money being wasted. Then again, following his logic, you could make the argument for letting other lost causes go. How would he feel about terminally ill people–should we let them die on their own, or persist in looking for a cure?