• “Gas was an environmental disaster, anyway. Now we use alternative fuels.”

• ―Leela

• “Like what?”

• ―Fry

• “Whale oil.”

• ―Leela

Yeah, whale oil was the base for a large host of high quality oils. It just happens to be real good.

What do the whales need this oil for? Is there oil in other animals? Is there human oil?

I’m glad we found an alternative before people started using some sort of CAFO style farming for whale oil. All I can picture is like maple syrup tree taps in the poor animals heads.

Also the antifungus cream I’m using has synthetic sperm whale oil in it

Ah, the margarine of anti-fungal creams.

They’re still killing a few billion other animals yearly, just that those are “accidents” instead of being on purpose.

Very large numbers of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates are killed on the world’s roads every day. A Humane Society volunteer survey conducted over three Memorial Day weekends in the 1960s estimated that one million vertebrate animals are killed by vehicular traffic daily in the United States. A 2008 Federal Highway Administration report estimates that 1 to 2 million accidents occur each year between large animals and vehicles. Extrapolating globally based on total length of roads, roughly 5.5 million vertebrates are killed per day, or over 2 billion annually.