If Food Network plays its cards right, this could make for one hell of an Iron Chef episode.

Tiger, tiger, burning bright, in the forests of the.....whoops. Strike that.

And before someone starts screaming that this is a WWF press release--it doesn't mean it's a lie.

lomnoir: Bobby Flay vs. Larry London perhaps?

Bobby Flay vs. Andrew W.K.

It would be a recipe for DISASTER.

If creationists aren't on that list, then I'm sad.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: If Food Network plays its cards right, this could make for one hell of an Iron Chef episode.

I sincerely doubt that. Ted Nugent, like most hunters, is a conservationist by necessity. You get rid of the source of your prey and you have nothing to do anymore.

jekxrb: farm5.static.flickr.com

If Klondike Bars are going extinct as well, I'm going to weep.

Profusely, too.

We lost Ecto Cooler, after all. We have to be careful.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: If Klondike Bars are going extinct as well, I'm going to weep.

I just assumed they were made of polar bear.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: :-/

Well, as a Canadian, I look at it this way. Without the Polar Bears, there'll be more cute, fluffy white seals to club.

Would Ben & Jerry's mind find seals an acceptable replacement for polar bears?



HAS NOBODY CONSIDERED THE DAMAGE TO THE ICE CREAM INDUSTRY IF POLAR BEARS GO EXTINCT?!? *shakes fist at sky*

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: jekxrb: farm5.static.flickr.com

If Klondike Bars are going extinct as well, I'm going to weep.

Profusely, too.

We lost Ecto Cooler, after all. We have to be careful.

And the Hamm's Beer Bear has been extinct for some time now. Who should we blame?

Am I the only one who is tired of the bloody Panda? I don't even find them that cute. They're just dual colored bears! They're also crappy breeders so they sort of have it coming.

I support the polar bear, penguins, tigers, rhinos and tuna. I don't support the butterfly because I'm afraid of insects and wish for their extinction frequently if it wouldn't destabilize or destroy the ecosystem and probably bring about the end of life as we know it in a very bad way.

Reads like an advertisement for the WWF.

Not that there's anything wrong with conservation.

Why are you hatin' on the Nuge?

jekxrb:


HAS NOBODY CONSIDERED THE DAMAGE TO THE ICE CREAM INDUSTRY IF POLAR BEARS GO EXTINCT?!? *shakes fist at sky*

What a man eating killing machine? May I suggest a grizzly or a Kodiak? They're cute too you know.

Poor Lonesome George

log_jammin: Maggie_Luna: I don't support the butterfly because I'm afraid of insects

did you really just admit to being scared of butterflies?

The wings are pretty but the larval stages and the actual body of a butterfly freak me out because they ARE NOT PRETTY! They're bodies look likes those of dragon flies a bit. *Shudder* I can only kill it if it's very small. If it's not I'm likely to cry or stand in mute horror. I am 75% sure that if someone dropped an insect on me as a joke that I'd physically harm them. I'm 25% sure that I'd freak out. This is a phobia not one of my pansy-mansy sensibilities that I can get over when needed.

Maggie_Luna: Am I the only one who is tired of the bloody Panda?

No. Pandas are carnivores that grew too slow to catch prey and now live on bamboo. Problem is, they still have a short, carnivore-type digestive tract that is horribly inefficient at digesting plants. Add in their specialisation to one particular type of bamboo and you have an animal practically begging to die out. In years that their favourite bamboo does poorly, do they eat something else? No, they starve.

Stupid pandas. "Cute" is their only survival trait.

Ted Nugent has probably given more money to conservation than everyone collectively who will eventually post on this thread.
This is doesn't stop him from being a giant Douchebag, it just means that people who hate all hunters are bigger Douchebags.

Species aren't Pokemon. We don't have to keep them all. It's nice that we have an attachment to them, and they're really interesting and all, but we don't really need them.

Yes, it's sad when species go away, but they take up habitat needed for humans. In some cases they consume food needed for humans. In general they use up resources needed for humans.

If you want to keep growing more people you have to take resources from the animals. If you don't you're causing a shortage of food or building materials or something else that will keep future populations alive.

People or gorillas. Pick one.

NittLion78:
I sincerely doubt that. Ted Nugent, like most hunters, is a conservationist by necessity. You get rid of the source of your prey and you have nothing to do anymore.

Nugent is an embarrassment to humanity. Any time hunters say that they're not just kill-crazy assholes, they would have to amend it with "except Ted Nugent".

From Wikipedia:
In a 1992 radio interview, Nugent referred to Heidi Prescott of the Fund for Animals as a "worthless whore" and a "shallow slut," asking "who needs to club a seal, when you can club Heidi?" and was ordered by a court to pay $75,000.

Nugent owns a hunting ranch near Jackson, Michigan, called Sunrize Acres. Anti-hunters claim this fenced facility offers "canned" hunts. Nugent has said, "I understand the criticism from those who say canned hunting violates the ethic of fair chase," though he still operates the facility and euphemizes canned hunting as "high fence hunting". Nugent was recently interviewed by Field & Stream magazine regarding "canned" hunts.[24] At Sunrize Acres he personally guides customers on a hunt for trophy bull bison ($5,000), Russian boar, or white-tailed deer ($1,000 each).

And my favorite:

In 2007, Nugent voiced his opposition to Democratic Party presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In a videotaped August 2007 concert performance, Nugent waved a machine gun and stated:

"Obama, he's a piece of shiat. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey Hillary, You might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless biatch."

FTFA
"The Tiger has topped the World Wide Fund for Nature's list of species most at threat of extinction."



Wow, Elin must have an amazingly fierce divorce lawyer.

PeopleSuck: Species aren't Pokemon. We don't have to keep them all.

I'm fairly certain that you only had to *catch* Pokemon, not keep them.

It has been quite a while though...

DOES HULK HOGAN KNOW ABOUT THIS????????/

PeopleSuck:
People or gorillas. Pick one.

Gorillas. That was easy. Next.

The problem with humans causing species to go extinct is not the one or two, it's the thousands of species man is wiping out. Biodiversity is important, ad there are already far too many people. Making the earth a monoculture with only one species would obviously be a disaster, even if cannibalism were not generally frowned upon.

It's less obvious, but just as disastrous, to have a planet with fewer and fewer species, with the resources overwhelmingly devoted to just one. It's even a disaster for the dominant species.

Dubai Vol: Stupid pandas. "Cute" is their only survival trait.


In a world where man dominates nature, cute might be the best survival trait.

I'm sure this was a list of the "10 endangered animals most likely to elicit an emotional response from donors", rather than a true "most endangered" list.

Won't anyone think of the redheads?

Tuna is the only one on that list that bothers me. I don't eat any of the other species listed.

Maggie_Luna: log_jammin: Maggie_Luna: I don't support the butterfly because I'm afraid of insects

did you really just admit to being scared of butterflies?

The wings are pretty but the larval stages and the actual body of a butterfly freak me out because they ARE NOT PRETTY! They're bodies look likes those of dragon flies a bit. *Shudder* I can only kill it if it's very small. If it's not I'm likely to cry or stand in mute horror. I am 75% sure that if someone dropped an insect on me as a joke that I'd physically harm them. I'm 25% sure that I'd freak out. This is a phobia not one of my pansy-mansy sensibilities that I can get over when needed.



Arghhhhh! Imagine that landing on your ear and then working itself inside your earhole and it getting stuck, and as it struggles its wings beat against your eardrum.....for...all...eternity...Bwhahaha!!1!

There is no way in hell tigers and polar bears are going to go extinct. Both species have large healthy captive populations, and should they go extinct in the wild it would be possible to do what they are doing with the California Condor and release captive bred tigers and polar bears into the wild. Tigers in particular are as easy to breed in captivity as house cats.

WWF?