Ai Hasegawa
Second Year

I'd like to deliver a tuna...

This project is a conceptual proposal for a human mother to deliver a shark (or dolphin, tuna) instead of human baby. The project points to a contemporary dilemma about human reproduction and also explains how to technically deliver another species.
 
We have many issues and dilemmas concerning reproduction, including the foremost issue over population, that leads us to ask the question ‘do we need more humans?’ DNA has programmed our instinct to pass on our genes to the next generation. However, many experts tell that our future is not so bright, and we have responsibility for future generations to make sure that they will have a happy life in the years to come.

As a living thing, we must eat, it is one of our strongest instincts. But eating means killing another life. By eating some animals, we put some species under threat of extinction. Keeping various animal species has become a very important human mission. Concerning these dilemmas, my project proposes for human beings to be able to deliver a Pacific blue-fin tuna and a Spiny dogfish.

If your body tells you to have baby or use your womb, but you don't want to have a baby, why not deliver a threatened species of fish instead? You can also choose the smallest dolphin, the “Maui’s dolphin”, for the dream option. This is because they are an intelligent animal able to build a relationship with us, yet is also seen as a food by some people. Humans delivering fish or other animals might change our perspective of them as ‘food.’
 
Scenario
‘Hi, Ms Sakanada? How may I help you?’ I flash a warm smile to her, like every doctors do. A new patient sit front of me seems fine, quite healthy, but little bit nervous. Her age is about 35 according to a clinical record.
‘I.. I’d like to pregnant a tuna. I’d like to deliver a tuna...’ She added an awkwardly smile. ‘Tuna…? You mean the fish one?’ I shouldn’t laugh. I moved my facial muscles carefully.

‘Yes, the one in the tin and sushi bar.’ She seems not crazy. Her facial expression saying that ‘I know I am talking strange things… but I’m pretty serious.’

‘I’ve heard this hospital has made human female delivered a rat baby.’

‘Yes. That’s indeed… but it was happend as a byproduct of other research. That wasn’t our main purpose’

‘I need to cure of my wasted and neglected motherly instinct and a womb… These are keep whispering me “have a baby… must have a baby… use me…use me” But I don’t want to make my own baby bring to such a horrible world..and I’m not suitable person in this world, so my baby cannot survive well’ she almost screamed.’
‘Well, I can understand that point, we are the generation that “Think deeply before you make baby.” ‘

‘Yes, also I feel that are we in the dead end of evolution? Some life form doubt about making your baby… that is not normal…’

‘I agree about that.But why Tuna? why not rats? Rats would be much easeir.'
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We’ve been killing lots of animal, and many species are going to extincted. Tuna is one of them. but we human are spread and cover whole earth like cancer.’

‘I see… ok, how about dolphin or shark? well, my recommendation is shark. Because shark is ovoviviparous, between oviparity and viviparity. They don’t have umbilical cord, that use egg york to grow and after that eat other eggs. Also they are warm. Basically expand your womb by hormone pill and expander to make little space, and put a shark egg and adding amnion liquid and extra food for posthatch growth’
‘I see… er… how about dolphins?’

‘Actually dolphin does pregnant and the body temperature is about 35 to 37degrees C. That is makes less risks for the dolphin baby.’ ‘Ok, let me think a while, which one I’d like to pregnant.’

‘That is fine! I will research bit more until next time you will come.’ I smiled but some how I’m feeling bit tired. After she left I need have a short nap.

I had a dream in such a short nap about 15 minutes. I was standing next the beautiful stream. I was waiting for my baby to come back from sea. So my baby is a salmon. Some how that was such a good feeling. I was quiet happy in there…
I wake up and have a bit yawn. My one of instinct ask me to check the clock. 12:46PM. Lunch time.’What shall I eat?’

 




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