Would you wear this ?

[hemet dennis]

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Why do you assume they would kill them ? Don't you think they would keep them and harvest the slime ? They only make the slim when attacked, not when they're dead. Do they slit the udder open to get milk from a cow ? I don't even know how you got to hagnuggets, but if they're edible then why not ?

 

[Peaches Lee]

Wrong! Sorry..

The difference is that the hagfish won't reproduce in captivity and need an environment that is not economical if at all possible for the masses to utilize.... chickens are available to anyone, anywhere (save for a few stupid laws and ordinances which prevent it). IF the situation was reversed... we may all be eating hagfishnuggets and wishing we could have a chicken egg. It is NOT in anyone's best interest to harvest a wild animal for one thing......... the black rhino for example which is now gone, for the sake of his horn.

I doubt the poster has an issue with eating eggs or chickens so much as killing a non replaceable species for the sake of it's slime. I'd be willing to bet they may not be opposed to harvesting just the slime and freeing the fish if it were possible.

Well put SillyChicken, you summed up my thoughts exactly. And, in the video the hagfish they were messing with was dead. I don't want to deplete the hagfish population off the face of the earth for clothing.

 

[bluesub]

The Discovery article states that it would not be feasible to harvest the slime, they suggest that the slime-making gene be spliced onto bacteria and that the bacteria would produce the slime.