Current Events: Giant Squid Thawed

GIANT SQUID THAWED> On Tuesday, April 29, New Zealand scientist began to thaw out a giant squid of 1,089 pounds (about 494 kg). No one has ever seen a colossal giant squid live in it's natural habitat and futher examination of this squid can help scientist understand how these species live.
The squid was actually accidently caught by fisherman, who were fishing for Patagonian toothfish in Antarctica, when the giant squid started to eat the bait. When the fishermen found this out, they quickly captured the amazing creature and froze it to preserve it. The national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, later took possession of it.

Colossal squid, which have long been one of the most mysterious denizens of the deep ocean, can grow up to 46 feet long, descend to 6,500 feet into the ocean and are considered aggressive hunters. They also have the biggest eyes to the animal world. It can be the size of a basketball.

This giant squid is actually believed to be the largest specimen of the rare deep-water species Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, or colossal squid, ever caught. The previous largest colossal squid ever found was a 660 pound female squid discovered in 2003, the first ever landed. After it is thawed out, scientists will examine the squid's anatomical features, remove the stomach, beak and other mouth parts, take tissue samples for DNA analysis and determine its gender. If it is a male, it will prove that male giant squids exists as they have never actually found the male species of giant squid before.

FREE QUESTION: Do you think cutting up this rare species is good for educational purposes or do you think that we should just leave it in peace?

Animal Rights Part 02

Do you want to know where your meat comes from? If you pick yes, read on. No, I suggest you to re-direct yourself from this post.

Cows = Burger King/McDonalds
Chickens = KFC
Pigs = Bacon and Pork chops

These foods taste good and we know it.But have you have wondering where they came from. You imagine those fresh, green fields and happy milkers milking the cows and smiling farmers feeding the chickens and so on and so forth. Ever wanna feel that those animals are being well threated? Yeah sure. Good food. Good people. Good Environment. The serenity....well guess what. Welcome to reality. Those farms are really rare in the world now. Those small peaceful farms have now transformed into claustrophobic jail houses for these poor animals. Some cows, chickens and pigs can't even move or turn around because they are so cramped up with all the other animals. These cramped spaces leads to diseases and fights and deaths. Because chickens fight for space and food in this little "high rised pens" the farmers have to cut off their beaks to stop them from hurting each other. Calves that have been taken from their mothers are being feed cow blood to make them grow faster and the corporate farm owners are giving them growth hormones or them to produce milk, cows and grow faster. Then eventually, they go into factories where everything is working at high speed, just to make the profit rate go higher. Then it comes to your home on your plate and down your throat. Boom. You've just eaten a factory raised meat. Do you think that this is right for us and the animals? All our cows and chickens and pigs used to "run free". Now because we've raised them for so many generations, they've lost their wildness and they become ... lame. They can't survive by themselves out there and they depend on the farmers to take care of them, even when they are going to be killed and served in KFC boxes through drive-through. These animals need to be raise and breed with care and we humans want to eat meat that is breed in an almost sanitory place, not something like this....

and imagine the stuff that comes out the rear end of these animals and how much and how fast it was accumulate with this speed and size. This creates pollution to the outside environment too.

So which will you pick: a pig that has been raised on one of these farms and treated like this, or a wild pig that had to chance to run their whole life but just got shot by a hunter. I would pick the hunted pig than the captive pig because if it hadn't crossed the hunters path, it would have not died and be serve on a plate with and apple in it's mouth.

So, do we have the rights to kill animals to eat? I'm tying this up with my previous post on animal rights. Yes, we do have the right to eat these animals. We have to. We we brought into this world to eat meat. It's part of who we are. If we are disciplined vegetarians or vegans, we would find supplements to meat but we will have to work really hard. We have to eat meat to stay healthy.

But we can change the meat that we eat. Just by checking on milk and egg cartons and meat that you buy from the market, for the word free range (which means brought up with space to run and grow) it will change the profit for those farms so they can kept their work up. Buy healthy, eat healthy. Help raise our food properly. Seriously. Do you want your food to be brought up in this environment?

Animal Rights

What is a right?
- A right is something you come with. You're born into the world with the right to live. It isn't something that you can earn but it can be taken away. It depends on how a person or animal uses the rights can you take it away. If something has more rights than others, they must have the responsibility and also have more responsibilities than a person or animal that disobeys other's rights. So then do we lose our right for living if we take other's life, even if the other is less or more superior than us. Everybody has rights and they have the power or authority over whatever they have the right to. They have power of their lives and their actions. If someone is taking over their lives and what they do, its the same thing as taking this person's or animal's right to live on this planet. You take away another's right to live, you may take your right to live and the authority over your life by doing a wrong.


What animals would we use to dissect (Why?). Which animals don't we have the right to dissect (Why?)
- We don't have the right to dissect any animals. No matter what they are still equal to us. Sure we may have more developed brains, but they still have the right to live. Mosquitoes have the right to bite us and suck our blood because it's the way they can reproduce and LIVE. If we don't let them have the right to suck our blood, they would never live. But since we give them to suck our blood, they can suck all the blood they want and they are the ones taking our right to live. If animals did not have the rights to do anything, they would be all living under our command. We would be able to dissect all the frogs we want because frogs don't do anything to impact our lives on this earth. Sure they won't like it but we are giving ourself the right to take their lives. I think we should only get frogs that are almost dying anyway. We would just be putting them to rest and giving them peace, also giving us the real experience to see what is in a body and how it works. Leonardo di Vinci dissected humans but they were humans that let him dissect them. We can't just ask a frog whether they want to die or not because we don't communicate in the same language.
They have lives to live. True, they don't have Ivy league colleges and Disney World and cars and clothes. But a thing more important than that is lives. They live and they have still time to experience things. They aren't even harming us right now. Rats have their small little homes with other rats they live with. They have emotions just like humans but you won't be able to see it and if you kill a rat you make the other rats scared, angry, and sad because they just lost a family member and they're scared that they're next. They have the right to live peacefully.


We do not have the right to dissect (as a class) the endangered species or any animal for that matter. The one animal that I would fully support on not dissecting are primates. They are the most like humans and taking them away is like killing a fellow human being. They have the same right as we do to live. Taking it away would be the same as committing a homicide.

Every single animal has the same rights as humans. What if animals ruled the world and they took one of us to dissect for educational purposes. S**** educational purposes! most people would say. We want to live just as every thing else. So should they have the right to live? Let the animals go. Let them to be free to decide for themselves whether they want to live.
But if a frog came into a science room and lie down on the table spread-eagled pointing at a scapel, i would think it wants to die. Then the humans should just toss it back into the pond to knock some sense into it.

(i would rather discuss this in person if you guys have anything else to add. i suck at stuff through written or typed words)