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Is there an ethical way to obtain sturgeon? And would it go well in a stroganoff? With beans? (lemm.ee)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

you can't trust it was killed for a legitimate reason

I'm probably being a little facetious here, I think I kind of get what you meant, but isn't the whole reason "to sell it to someone who wants to eat it" regardless of which one was killed?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Like, if it was it was road kill (?) or something. Maybe a conservationist came into the possession of a freshly dead sturgeon and wants OP to cook it. I dunno, I've had similar things happen, I posted about the time I got to try kopi luwak here.

Otherwise, no, it's farmed or you're SOL. Eating endangered animals is generally agreed to be a dick move.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like, if it was it was road kill (?) or something

I keep running into sturgeons in my car. Hate when that happens.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hmm, I bet that would mess up your tires. They have tooth-like scales IIRC. It could be for research or some other kind of accident, I guess. The point being that it wasn't a kill for food purposes.

Lemmy punishes being inexact so much ("ACKTUALLY") I have to admit I'm a bit butthurt people are coming after me for mentioning the only edge case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure I understand. I'm speaking specifically about this particular situation you mentioned : what's the difference in terms of legitimacy between the two kills, if both were made to be sold to feed someone else?

I understand the legal aspect, like endangered species protections, etc, but that's another topic entirely. Or is it actually not and you actually meant "legality"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The point would be it was killed for unrelated reasons, and then is made available post-mortem for consumption somehow. And verifiably so!

As for the ethics:

Eating endangered animals is generally agreed to be a dick move.

I feel like that sums it up pretty well. I don't know OP but I'd bet money that they would agree it's to be avoided, so that's the light I answered the question in.

If this is a vegetarian thing, I did make a mention of that in my OP. Dispensing a lecture instead of answering the spirit of the question would have been unhelpful.