tomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoTIL before 1972 sperm whales were killed in order to make transmission fluids for car transmissionsmagazine.washington.eduexternal-linkmessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1273arrow-down1external-linkTIL before 1972 sperm whales were killed in order to make transmission fluids for car transmissionsmagazine.washington.edutomatoely@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareWhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 days agoI’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.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoAccording to another comment here, we only truly found alternatives because whaling was getting banned.
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.
According to another comment here, we only truly found alternatives because whaling was getting banned.