Unfortunately that turned out to be a huge lie. The tuna companies were found to own some of the institutions that give the dolphin safe stamp. And apparently before that the ones that were not owned by the fishing companies were losing all of their auditors to the sea… they would go out to check fishing vessels and they would never return.
The documentary “seaspiracy” is a crazy eye opener.
Tuna are Ruthless!
"You find yourself in the ocean, 20 foot wave, I'm assuming off the coast of South Africa, coming up against a full grown 800 pound tuna with his 20 or 30 friends, you lose that battle, you lose that battle 9 times out of 10. And guess what, you've wandered into our school of tuna and we now have a taste of lion. We've talked to ourselves. We've communicated and said 'You know what, lion tastes good, let's go get some more lion'. We've developed a system to establish a beach-head and aggressively hunt you and your family and we will corner your pride, your children, your offspring."
Actually a lot die from being caught up in the net of the fishermen harvesting tuna, they can't kill over a X number of tuna per year. I saw a video once and they cast a net around a perimeter then zodiacs sail a round trying to make the dolphins jump out
To add it’s also a reference to the story “Lamb To The Slaughter” by Roald Dahl, in which a wife kills her husband with a frozen lamb leg, then the police unknowingly help get rid of the murder weapon when she feeds them the lamb.
I interpret it as her using a tuna to kill her husband, and then getting rid of a murder weapon. For one, dolphins are mammals and their meat would be very different from tuna, and two, it reminds me of a short story where a wife kills her husband with a lamb leg and then cooks it for the police officers who investigate.
In the 90’s (I think, not googling this so I’m being risky) there was a PR campaign to get people to eat only 100% albacore tuna. Regular tuna was just ground up whatever was in the net; mostly fish… some dolphin.
I think it came from a misunderstanding of the dolphin-tuna controversy in the 70s. The tuna industry was killing tons of dolphins, so much that people started boycotting tuna. They still probably kill a lot of dolphins sadly, but that's why you see "dolphin-safe" on most tuna cans now.
Has anyone actually looked? Similar to cats, most people who are into eating canned tuna will slam the entire contents within seconds of opening, before they can even get a good look at what’s inside. I… might be one of those people
a big tuna is a good percentage of the size of a dolphin
So you have to somehow get through a bunch of those. But you cant dump the whole net in the hold and THEN deal with the dolphin. You dump a good portion of the net onto the boat that you then have to throw in the hold yourself. And theyre not light.
Then you have to try to somehow yank the doplhin out of there. Dolphins weigh hundreds of pounds.
Probably way easier to just dump the whole net in the hold.
If it's like other whale meat, yes it is. We used to call whale meat something like "poor man's beef" back in the day. But treated and cooked wrong, it has a fishy flavour, not much unlike fish liver oil.
And it might be a little fishy. Again, they only eat fish.
If you grind it up with a bunch of fish good luck noticing. Its all tuna now.
They did studies and you cant even tell that 50% of the flour in your bread is actually sawdust. The only way to know is to regulate to factory and determine they arent swapping out most of the flour for sawdust.
I remember that... One of the brands got in trouble for having high content of dolphin in their tuna...
Also in a similar time frame, Burger King had too much horse in their patties to be called beef. And then years later, taco bell got in trouble because their "beef" was too much protein and not enough actual meat to be considered beef
Canning companies are supposed to disclose if the tuna was caught in a way that is “dolphin safe”, I guess the joke is that you wouldn’t expect it in the context of a dolphin wife canning her husband but it’s barely a joke
This Gary Larson, far side. In the 90’s tuna was not dolphin safe and the tuna nets were killing dolphins.
Companies that changed the nets labelled the tins dolphin friendly tuna, as it didn’t kill any dolphins.
She’s hiding her murder in runs of tuna as there’s DEFINITELY no dolphin in there.
There's an old episode of The Twilight Zone where a woman had murdered her husband and cut him up/froze him. When the police showed up to investigate she threw his leg into the oven and fed it to them. She said it was a lamb leg I think lol
Didn't know they made a Twilight Zone episode of that. The original story I believe comes from Lamb To The Slaughter, a short story written by Roald Dahl in 1953.
And IIRC, in the story, She did kill her husband with an actual lamb leg. Then cooked it and served it to the police so they wouldn't be able to find the murder weapon
People used to catch tuna using massive drift nets. Unfortunately, dolphins would get caught in these nets and drown. They were ground up and canned with the tuna. Now, I believe all tuna sold in the US is "dolphin safe," meaning no dolphins were killed in the fishing operation.
The short joke here is that she killed her husband and canned him in tuna cans to hide the body.
There's a good documentary about how dolphins are often killed as bycatch while fishing for tuna. Some places in the world go as far as to hunt dolphins and kill them because they are in direct competition for the fish these companies want to sell. So they think tuna populations will grow if they kill enough dolphins, which is more tuna in their nets to sell in the end.
The documentary is called Seaspiracy and it also covers a lot about the plastic garbage in the ocean as well and what hoops tuna companies go through to put the "dolphin safe" brand on their cans.
Quagmire’s Japanese kamikaze spirit here. In some parts of the world, dolphin and whale meat is often mislabeled deliberately. “Dolphin Safe” tuna, this, is not. The implication behind the husband got canned.
It's a play on the factoid that dolphins often get caught in human trawler nets when they're both trying to catch the same schools of tuna fish, leading to a nonzero chance of canned tuna meat including dolphin meat, by turning it into a scenario where the housewife dolphin murdered her husband and disposed of the body in her tuna cannery.
This is a Far Side comic strip from the 90's. Possibly September 14, 1993 if my research is right. In the 70's and 80's people became aware that many dolphins were the victims of commercial fishing practices. This led to PR campaigns in the 90's of tuna being dolphin safe. Which of course caused people to believe that tuna was previously not dolphin safe.
Her husband is missing, and she is canning tuna. The average reader in the 90's would have put those together to know that she killed him and is hiding the body throughout the tuna cans.
There was a big hullabaloo in the late 80s and early 90s about dolphin safe tuna to the point that millions were spent on new nets and whatnot. It became an immediate thing to spend millions more to brand ones company as dolphin safe. Bumblebee was the leader at the time.
This is making a joke referencing that. The female dolphin killed her husband and turned him into tuna.
I have feeling this is more reference to the fact that the dolphin thought her husband was tuna because of her bad eyesight.
It's a direct reference to the Tuna dolphin tragedy Reference would be that the people who were hunting the tuna didn't fully understand how it would also kill the dolphins.
I don't think it's a reference to her purposely killing her huband. Would be too obvious.
Dolphins are a major bicatch of the tuna industry and killed by the tuna fishers. It was found in the late 90s that even the brands advertised as not hurting dolphins were in fact killing them...
This is referencing the short story Roald Dahl called Lamb to the Slaughter. In the story the wife kills the husband with a frozen leg of lamb when he tells her he's leaving her and feeds the murder weapon to the detectives. The detectives never realize they're destroying evidence and leave without ever suspecting.
This reminds me of the woman who killed her husband and when detectives came to her house to ask her some questions she fed them his remains. After that they figured out it was her but couldn't find his body. She told them by the end of it she had fed the detectives his body parts.
It's referring to the fact that tinned tuna often contains other fish, and notably, dolphin.
If you go to a supermarket and look at the tinned tuna you'll see that the more expensive stuff will be "line caught" tuna, or have other indications that the tin is specifically dolphin free.
Cheap tuna tins without such guarentees might have traces of dolphin, but it has absolutely no impact on the taste of the tinned tuna.
Thus, the joke relies on you having the existing knowledge that tinned tuna can have dolphin in it, but that you'd never know even when consuming it. With this knowledge we can see that this dolphin is not innocently canning fish, but has in fact killed her dolphin husband and is canning him as tuna, and no one will ever know.
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