What is a Mermaid's Diet?
Hello Nerdfighters! Over the past few months of Dear Hank and John episodes , one of the conversations I've thought about the most has to be the "Mermaid Diet" discussion of Episode 106: Mermaid Cannibalism . In this discussion, John and Hank Green respond to a query from a listener named Laura. Laura's question went like this: "So a mermaid is half fish and half human, right? What do mermaids eat? I know that fish often eat other fish, and that's completely acceptable. But if someone is half fish and half human... would [they] feel cannibalistic eating a fish?" Now, disregarding the fact that mermaids are totally mythical, this seems like a huge dilemma. If I were a mermaid I probably wouldn't feel comfortable eating a fish, but then again being completely sustained by seaweed seems somewhat of a nightmare to me too. John and Hank eventually came to the decision that mermaids probably do eat fish and considering fish species are very biolo...