august osage county great white sharks and orca's

[frenchy]

so i saw that movie august osage county with meryl streep and julia roberts and if you haven't seen it yet no worries i'm not gonna give it away so no need for any spoiler alerts .. i'm just gonna mention one little thing that was said while they were at the dinner table and thats what got me to thinkin .. the daughter said she didn't eat meat because she didn't want to eat the animals fear .. i thought that statement a little odd at first .. as if fear had a taste or somethin but if you think about it further you can only imagine what is pulsin thru your veins when you're scared .. especially for your life .. it could just change the taste from the chemicals that get dumped into the blood from all the adrenilen .. and who knows what that does to us when we eat it ?? it was food for thought anyway and then i came upon this video on youtube about great white sharks and orca's in the san francisco area .. it seems this great white shark was swimmin along and not a worry in the world .. after all he's a great white shark what does he have to worry about right ?? but the orca had a different idea and he grabbed that shark and killed it .. now here's where it got interesting .. there was always quite a few great whites in the frisco area .. other sharks too .. hundreds perhaps , but after that orca killed that great white they all disappeared.. all of em .. gone in like 15 minutes .. the shark watchers and the orca watchers couldn't quite explain it at first because you don't usually see the two species at the same time .. in fact the orca's were only spotted every few years or so .. the sharks were always around .. the guys who studied orca's were sayin that they will usually either eat seals or they'll go out to sea and eat fish .. but they usually don't eat both .. one guy was tryin to say the reason the orca attacked the great white was because it was a mother protectin her calf but then another orca watcher said no , i know that whale ( they can tell from their fins somehow sorta like fingerprints ) and she don't have any calfs.. so they were kinda baffled by it all .. it seemed that the orca just killed the great white so easy and that shouldn't have been such an easy task . then one guy who knew sharks came up with a theory .. he said that if you can flip a shark on its back it will pretty much go into a daze .. i think he called it tonic hypnosis or somethin and he thinks thats how the orca did it .. and then he actually demonstrated with a small lemon shark and sure enough once he flipped that sucker over it was like a little puppy gettin its belly rubbed .. and then he came up with a theory on why all the sharks left the area .. ( i'll bet you were wonderin how i was gonna tie this all together weren't you )  it seems that when a shark is afraid it gives off a scent that other sharks can smell .. and once they smell that they'll split in a hurry .. now how they exactly extracted that shark fear stuff they didn't say but that guy who was pettin that lemon sharks belly like it was a puppy put a few drops in the water and that shark flipped back over and was gone so fast .. as if he was gonna get beat like a redheaded stepchild or somethin .. .. which brings me back to august osage county and eatin meat that is full of fear .. it sounded so weird  when i first heard it but then it made me rethink it after this shark orca thing .. what if some of the food we're eatin is responsible for some of the things that happen to us ?? stress levels ?? heart disease ? strokes ?? blood pressure ? anxiety ?? its worth a look anyway .. the other thought that came to me if they could extract a bunch of that stuff is they could give it to sailors in case they end up in the water .. the uss indianapolis comes to mind .. that was the ship that quint was on from the movie jaws and while everything else in the movie was fiction the uss indianapolis was true .. they did deliver the bomb that got dropped on japan and they did get torpedo'd and 1100 men went into the water .. their mission was so secret nobody knew where they were .. i think they were in the water for about 3 days and when they finally found them only about 300 of them were still alive .. the sharks got the rest of em .. sad but true story .. anyway .. welcome to how my mind works .. what do you think about any of this ?? do you think the meat we eat can actually effect us if it was scared before we killed it ? i'm not ready to be a vegatarian just yet but it does make me think .. what about you ??  

[blithe spirit]

Sorry about the sister stuff Jo..you did what your heart called you to do as a sister..it's all you can do.
I come from a big close family and it's always amazes me how we share the same genetic material and do such different things and different takes of life..one of those things.

Frenchy, keep researching...it's always fun when you learn new stuff...have fun!