The Food Chain That We Created

Well, I've been on Yvonne's blog and find her latest post quite humourous yet fascinating. As we all know, humans are at the top of the food chain (even though we can get eaten too) and we are also known as 'killers'.

So the food chain was all peaceful a few million years ago, until we came in!

So what's happening now? You could say that anything we eat is going to become extinct. We as humans do not know when to stop. Let's put it this way. A group of whales are swimming peacefully and chatting. Then we came along and brought harpoons with us.

I guess you could say that it's part of human nature to explore and try new things. There's crocodile meat. Ever tried that? The Aborigines killed kangaroos to eat but at least it was enough to survive. Ever since the settlement of the Europeans, everything is lead to money and I suppose that's when the mass killing of all species began.

Not only that but we are slowly killing down our forests. As a matter of fact, scientists have believed that some species were wiped out before we even found them and what's funny is that they're not stopping.

(Back to the whales)

So before we came, there were more than three thousands of them. Now there's a couple of hundred. Like I have mentioned before, humans would do anything for money. The Japanese said they'll stop, but are they? In a way, you can't really blame them. Before the new rules came in, killing whales was allowed. This meant that the person who killed it would make money; and humans need money to survive. If they stop, they'd have to find some other way.

You could say the food chain was very stable before settlement of many countries. The krills eat the planktons, the whales eat the krills, the orcas hunt down the whales. Isn't that peaceful?

As my science teacher once told me, to make a balance chain there must be more producers than consumers. As I have mentioned before, we as humans are on the top of the food chain. And with the increasing population, this stable food chain has been manipulated into some crap.

Now, Yvonne told me that we should start eating vegetables. Well, that's possible. But I believe the human race has gone to a point where they think they are very powerful which leads to the fact that they are ignorant and careless. So making a halt to the amount of meat we consume each day will take quite a while (and, I do mean a WHILE).

Making a halt to such a thing would be quite hard, as this is 'our' food chain now. We have reduced the population of several species to a number where it will take hundreds of years to recover. But in that time, I suppose Genetics Engineering can come in and support the fact that we should start eating vegetables and vegetables only.

Only when humans realise their mistakes, they also realise it's 'sort of' late.