Sunday, June 1, 2008
Trip to the Antarctic part 3
Today, Robert and Max took me to a spot where they usually fish. We were walking there when suddenly a huge piece of ice fell off. One more step and we would have fell. Max and Robert would have been fine but I would be in trouble. Falling into that freezing water would hurt me. We went to a different spot that looked safer. We did not find many fish for a while. Then we found a couple. The fish we found looked like a lot for me, but Robert needed a lot more. We stayed for a couple hours. Then Max started talking. "We penguins need to eat fish to live. I heard that humans have all kinds of food. Why don't they just eat that food instead of ours?"I told him "Humans like to taste different things. The companies that take the fish get as much as they can because they will always find someone to buy the fish. So the more fish they get, the more money they get." "Why do people need money?" Max asked. I replied "To buy food and other things". "That's stupid. Why don't they just find their own food? I f they did, we wouldn't have a shortage of fish" he said. "How" I asked. "No one would need a lot of fish if they were just trying to get their own food" He said. I replied “I guess you're right, but that would never
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