Pandas - why do we pay for them!?

[Pandamoneia]

Too much money is spent on Pandas.

- They pretty much only eat bamboo. If they don't eat bamboo, it's an accident.
- They cannot hibernate because a diet consisting of just bamboo doesn't allow them to get fat enough to hibernate.
- Panda cubs take forever to grow because their diet of low-nutrient bamboo means low-nutrient milk.
- In fact, lots of panda cubs die.
- Even better, this is probably the only species that actively refuses to fornicate. Millions are spent each year to get pandas to get down and do the dirty, and they just don't.

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

[Mon Ling]

Pandas are ADORABLE.

[Bakery Hill]

Thieving jobless scum need to pay their own fucking way.

[Achaea-Arcadia]

Oh you sick person, from where will we get all the funny panda memes if they all die?

(I'll let the long unneeded arguments to other people down this thread)

[Vassenor]

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

We could say the same thing about humans.

[Aellex]

We could say the same thing about humans.

No, we really couldn't.

[Principality of the Raix]

Too much money is spent on Pandas.

- They pretty much only eat bamboo. If they don't eat bamboo, it's an accident.
- They cannot hibernate because a diet consisting of just bamboo doesn't allow them to get fat enough to hibernate.
- Panda cubs take forever to grow because their diet of low-nutrient bamboo means low-nutrient milk.
- In fact, lots of panda cubs die.
- Even better, this is probably the only species that actively refuses to fornicate. Millions are spent each year to get pandas to get down and do the dirty, and they just don't.

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

I believe, so long as it is only China attempting to protect and care for it. If they want to waste money, in truth all species have a time and places like America should not have to pay for species not of our Nation nor hunted to extinction by man. Like example; Bison or wolves, it is more understandable to pay for the creatures that We almost kill. But Pandas are not really hunted, except by poachers and not as often as Elephants. So I do believe this is more China's national issue than being international.

[Keensa]

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

We could say the same thing about humans.

The difference is that humans are everywhere and have the resources to live in several different places, we can eat heaps of different things, have a massive population and are taught to be self sufficient by doing jobs to earn money for purchasing things in our own personal lives and covering bills. Our sheer numbers and widespread distribution make us a succesful species that is nowhere close to extinction. (Perhaps we've done too well however...)

[Principality of the Raix]

The difference is that humans are everywhere and have the resources to live in several different places, we can eat heaps of different things, have a massive population and are taught to be self sufficient by doing jobs to earn money for purchasing things in our own personal lives and covering bills. Our sheer numbers and widespread distribution make us a succesful species that is nowhere close to extinction. (Perhaps we've done too well however...)

That is true, we are anything but close to extinction as a whole; In the long run, we need to maybe think of creating artificial environments for ourselves. If we want any other creature besides Human to survive Us.

[Ifreann]

Too much money is spent on Pandas.

- They pretty much only eat bamboo. If they don't eat bamboo, it's an accident.
- They cannot hibernate because a diet consisting of just bamboo doesn't allow them to get fat enough to hibernate.
- Panda cubs take forever to grow because their diet of low-nutrient bamboo means low-nutrient milk.
- In fact, lots of panda cubs die.
- Even better, this is probably the only species that actively refuses to fornicate. Millions are spent each year to get pandas to get down and do the dirty, and they just don't.

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

Why do we keep paying for iPhones?

[Community Values]

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

We could say the same thing about humans.

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

[Principality of the Raix]

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

Nope, never had it before. I don't think Humans could even digest it, also isn't it like poisonous for us to digest. Don't qoute me on that, just speculative. But I think it may be.

[Aclion]

We could say the same thing about humans.

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

I could totally get fat enough to hibernate.

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

Nope, never had it before. I don't think Humans could even digest it, also isn't it like poisonous for us to digest. Don't qoute me on that, just speculative. But I think it may be.

The shoots are edible actually. Adult plants are basically 100% fiber though. Would come out as hard as it went in

[Vassenor]

We could say the same thing about humans.

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#Culinary

Weeeeeeellllll...

[Principality of the Raix]

The shoots are edible actually. Adult plants are basically 100% fiber though. Would come out as hard as it went in

So it is basically a poisonous edible, may as well eat blowfish. If your gonna be daresy like that.

[Community Values]

I don't know about you, but I've never eaten bamboo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#Culinary

Weeeeeeellllll...

Not gonna lie, that stuff looks pretty good.

[Achaea-Arcadia]

The shoots are edible actually. Adult plants are basically 100% fiber though. Would come out as hard as it went in

So basically, it is like any other plant almost. Half of it like roots and leaves (i don't know about leaves) may be poisonous to eat. While the stalk like bark, if eaten. I do hope both make your rear burn in regret for eating something not in our diet. Course, humans broke natural diet, after we made fast food and etc.

No,

Basically, it's like eating clothes

[Internationalist Bastard]

A thing called conservationism

[Principality of the Raix]

So basically, it is like any other plant almost. Half of it like roots and leaves (i don't know about leaves) may be poisonous to eat. While the stalk like bark, if eaten. I do hope both make your rear burn in regret for eating something not in our diet. Course, humans broke natural diet, after we made fast food and etc.

No,

Basically, it's like eating clothes

Well I just switched it up as if you read on the wikia. The stock is poisonous, just has to be like blow fish prepared a certain way to make edible. But I will take the eating of clothes, as a consideration.

[Ebnious]

The conversation turned from pandas to bamboo

[Internationalist Bastard]

The conversation turned from pandas to bamboo

Not the worst jump I've seen

[Galloism]

Because we haven't figured out how to make them work full time yet.

[Pandamoneia]

Pandas are ADORABLE.

That is not a sound argument for spending so much money on them. If adorableness were a criteria, why didn't humans stop the Formosan clouded leopard from becoming extinct?

The means of production in a species is reproduction. The panda bourgeoisie has somehow cheated themselves into the enviable position of having their non-reproduction subsidized by governments and various charitable institutions - just because they look pretty? Scientific and economical concerns must have priority over pandaring to the crowd.

This species has earned it's own extinction. They are in an evolutionary cul-de-sac. A leaf on the evolutionary tree. A failed mutation. A lineage whose time has come. Why do we keep paying for them?

We could say the same thing about humans.

Last I heard, dolphins aren't spending money to make sure humans procreate. We're doing that quite effectively - have you looked at recent human population graphs!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo#Culinary

Weeeeeeellllll...

Bamboo is merely a culinary supplement in some cultures; it is not a primary food source (or even worse, as is the case in the case of a certain moribund species, the only food source).

A thing called conservationism

At what point is it conserving just for the sake of conserving? What makes pandas more special than the formosan clouded leopard, or the eastern cougar, or the japanese river otter!?

The conversation turned from pandas to bamboo

Not unreasonable, since their insistence on eating bamboo and only bamboo is the second largest problem that this soon-to-be-historical last remaining member of the Ailuropoda genus has.

(The first problem is, obviously, that they're not producing heat between the shoots.)

[Internationalist Bastard]

Nothing makes them more important, they just are another endagered animal

[Sovaal]

A thing called conservationism

Bag, waist of money. Animals to dumb to not die from human activities deserve to go extinct!!!! /s