Those endangered species are much more significant to our world than most want to believe.

I love eating animals!
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But yeah, I don't want them to disappear. (Partly because then we wouldn't be able to eat them anymore.)

The animal kingdom is intricately and delicately linked together. Removing even one of those links can have negative effects on the ecosystem.

I'm not one for ordering endangered species platters, but if I'm out in the wild and it's me eating that endangered animal/plant or starving to death, I'm going for the food.

Out of many species on the Earth, why wouldn't we choose to eat the fast breeding ones?
So many beautiful animals are extinct for their fur. NOT food. Fur, that middle-aged women are going to wear as a coat...or neckwear. Yup, hanging a mink over your neck is stylish.

Not all those endangered/threatened/ectera are "fast breeding."

As a Vegeterian who avoids Leather and Fur I have to say of course you have to protect these animals. But not only these.
Here's a little information on why it's a good thing to be a Vegetarian:
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Just for those who are interested. I don't want to push my own beliefs onto others, which is why my fiance does still eat meat and I'd never make him change. I cook the food for him, even if it's meat. I'd be happy if he stopped eating meat as well but I would never force him to.

im not a vegetarian by any means but endangered species are part of a very fragile ecosystem and if so much as once species dies out it could mean disaster for humans and animals alike.

So, does anyone want to present an argument for why consumption of endangered species should be outlawed?

Eating endangered/threatened/vulnerable/ectect is a very good way to end up removing said animals from the ecosystem. The animal kingdom is intricately and delicately linked together. Removing even one of those links can have negative effects on the ecosystem.

For example...

The US has pushed the natural predators (bears, coyotes, wolves, cougars) of deer away, either by killing them or destroying habitat and forcing them to find shelter elsewhere. This caused a huge rise in the number deer. Which, in turn, caused problems with other animals having food, water, and shelter; "toll is taken not merely on agricultural crops and landscape plantings, but
on our native forests where certain plant species are being decimated"; road hazards; and rise is Lyme disease due to increased number of ticks link

Thank you, bri-marie!

Haha, you're welcome :)

Until they become un-endangered and there's a limit on how many to hunt.

I think the question should rather be "Should the Hunting of Endangered species be outlawed?"



But if someone presents me a bald eagle steak,why not?Not eating it won't bring it back.

You can hunt something without killing it. Most people don't eat live animals. (Or live anything, for that matter.)

Consumption is not just about eating, it can also be the consumption of the life for other purposes or in other fashions (taxidermy, furs, skins, genetic experimentation, fuel, clearing space for construction). Such consumption is not solely through hunting in the wild, either, in part because species are not just members of the animal kingdom. If endangered flowers like thorn mint are grown in a hothouse and then cut and pressed for decoration, that is still consumption of an endangered species. If bent grass or manzanita is destroyed to make room for emergency shelters in the wake of a disaster (like a tornado), that is still consumption.

If you want to ask about hunting, that's fine. But it is a different question...even if it's one that most people are trying to answer, having mis-read this one.

Yes, it should be outlawed, if it isn't already. The fact is, all of the endangered species, like with every other surviving species, has some kind of importance to the natural world and its functioning ecosystem and food chain. It might be that one goes extinct and another ends up endangered because it preyed on that extinct species and can't survive on another. Basically, we should be considerate of the other species on our planet... I don't why we haven't gotten this point yet, but humans are not the only important species on the planet... Probably one of the less important ones, actually... Yet, somehow, we seem to have placed ourselves upon this pedestal above other organisms.
Anyway, I shall digress now... We should remember that endangered species need more care that what we would admit to and that we should be fully aware of any implications surrounding this, including that of killing these animals for silly, irrelevant material goods, using their body parts and fur... As well as other such things. I really dislike it how someone feels that having a coat of fur is more important than the life, or more than one, of some poor, endangered animal. It makes me sick.

There are plenty of other animals to eat (just don't be wasteful about it). And killing off entire species is pointlessly evil and detrimental to the ecosystem.