I don't know how replies and edits work on this site. I didn't see most of your post when I replied.
The problem I have with what happened to these penguins is how wasteful it was. Relatively little was produced and everything else was wasted. And using a living creature as fuel to render its compatriots into a low-quality, low-yield product. The fact that they died isn't really the upsetting thing to me here. It's the wasteful nature of the process and the impact on the species and the environment.
I'll happily, very happily in fact, eat bison. They're delicious. I would have no problem killing and butchering one myself. Shooting them en masse and leaving the carcasses to rot as happened early in the history of the US is beyond repulsive to me.
> Death in itself is not a tragedy. Living in poor conditions or past the point where you can function without pain absolutely is.
Do you hold the same stance when it come to human life?
Or what about the penguins in the article? They lived typical penguin lives and were presumably killed relativly quickly.