{"id":19,"date":"2010-07-10T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T06:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/?p=19"},"modified":"2010-07-10T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T06:40:06","slug":"amazon-river-dolphins-being-slaughtered-for-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/07\/amazon-river-dolphins-being-slaughtered-for-bait\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon river dolphins being slaughtered for bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, you might be thinking &#8220;what do you have against dolphins&#8221;?  I used to have NO problem with dolphins.. until I read that they can mate with whales, resulting in WOLPHINS! No joke. I read it on Yahoo. It must be true.<\/p>\n<p>So because dolphins can help perpetuate the whales, they fall into the &#8216;anti&#8217; bucket. <\/p>\n<p>Apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20100710\/ap_on_re_la_am_ca\/lt_brazil_amazon_dolphins_slaughtered\" target=\"_blank\">Amazonian river dolphins are being caught and and their flesh used as bait. <\/a> Yanno.. people that live there.. first you destroy your rain forest, now you get rid of your river dolphins. I&#8217;m all for the latter, but really? You are going to run out of natural resources and that makes me sad, because you have some really unique natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Best line of the article: Simple economics exacerbates the problem: Killing dolphins is free, and their meat is valuable<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/07\/amazon-river-dolphins-being-slaughtered-for-bait\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, you might be thinking &#8220;what do you have against dolphins&#8221;? I used to have NO problem with dolphins.. until I read that they can mate with whales, resulting in WOLPHINS! No joke. I read it on Yahoo. It must be true. So because dolphins can help perpetuate the whales, they fall into the &#8216;anti&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/2010\/07\/amazon-river-dolphins-being-slaughtered-for-bait\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/antiwhale.org\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}