{"id":3821,"date":"2011-04-21T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T12:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=3821"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T20:06:13","slug":"shark-feeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=3821","title":{"rendered":"Shark Feeding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read commercials from operators that offer opportunities for adventures where they feed the sharks while you watch and film. I am an advocate for NO shark feeding, or feeding of any kind. Because of that, I will not participate with that operator so not to promote or encourage the continuation of feeding. Human feeding of wild life is not in the best interest to both us and them. Darwin believed that any interaction with wildlife will embed that interaction\u00a0into the genome of the creature and that memory will be\u00a0passed to future generations.<\/p>\n<p>Should we be associating food\u00a0from humans as a way to get a meal? How does that affect the ability to hunt when habit has them coming to humans for their next, easy meal?<\/p>\n<p>What are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read commercials from operators that offer opportunities for adventures where they feed the sharks while you watch and film. I am an advocate for NO shark feeding, or feeding of any kind. Because of that, I will not participate with that operator so not to promote or encourage the continuation of feeding. Human feeding of wild life is not in the best interest to both us and them. Darwin believed that any interaction with wildlife will embed that interaction\u00a0into the genome of the creature and that memory will be\u00a0passed to future generations.<br \/>\nShould we be associating food\u00a0from humans as a way to get a meal? How does that affect the ability to hunt when habit has them coming to humans for their next, easy meal?<br \/>\nWhat are your thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Shark Feeding - Divetalking<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=3821\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Shark Feeding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=3821\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Divetalking\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-04-21T12:27:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-04-22T20:06:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=3821#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=3821\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/02d5721103fd9d171fcc8cfb74d80947\"},\"headline\":\"Shark Feeding\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-04-21T12:27:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-04-22T20:06:13+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=3821\"},\"wordCount\":135,\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=3821\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.divetalking.com\\\/?p=3821\",\"name\":\"Shark Feeding - 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