HN Explorer

4 comments

[ 0.26 ms ] story [ 23.2 ms ] thread
leros
A blue whale weights about 150 times more than a cow. Ignoring the economics of raising whales for food, I've often debated whether it makes since to start ranching blue whales for food. Even if you consider them a "higher" life form than a cow, are they really 150x more valuable life forms than a cow? Probably not. So why not create ocean ranches to breed blue whales?
robbedpeter
Maybe you can train killer whales to work your whale ranch - orcas, cowdogs of the sea.
nsonha
That option is worth exprloring if it's deemed that killing is essential for human surfvival, which I don't think is the consensus these days.
pontifier
Seems more like a technical problem than anything else. I wonder how you'd go about actually doing it.