Posted on 11/22/2016 9:33:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
Eating live animals has been around for years, and is still extremely popular in countries like Korea.
People might claim that it’s a delicacy but to be honest, wanting to consume a creature that’s squirming with pain on your plate is a bit sadistic, no?
That’s not to mention the fact that its tentacles can latch onto your throat and choke you. Just sayin’. Animal activists PETA agree, and their latest investigation focuses on the barbaric practice.
Investigators visited restaurants in Los Angeles in September of this year and filmed chefs pinning down live octopuses and ripping off their limbs.
One chef is seen tearing off the limbs of an octopus and revealing that he only needs half the octopus for one dish, so will leave the octopus left to one side – writhing in agony – until someone else orders it.
It will then have its intestines ripped out, before being left to die.
The chef was preparing a dish called ‘sannakji’, which features chopped up moving octopus tentacles.
‘The octopus, which you’ve been chopping to pieces, is feeling pain every time you do it,’ cephalopod expert Dr. Jennifer Mather told PETA.
‘It’s just as painful as if it were a hog, a fish, or a rabbit, if you chopped a rabbit’s leg off piece by piece. So it’s a barbaric thing to do to the animal.’
Invertebrate zoologist Dr Jaren G Horsley confirmed to PETA that: ‘A lobster is in a great deal of pain from being cut open … [and] feels all the pain until its nervous system is destroyed.’
The video also shows restaurants serving other live creatures, including lobsters and prawns, served with their still live bodies served next to their cut-off tails. All for human amusement.
PETA is calling on the US government to introduce a law that prohibits animals from being mutilated, prepared and served alive.
While only people who live in New York and California can sign, last time we checked, the latest people to sign were from Europe, so you may as well head on over and show your support anyway.
Because, let’s be honest, we’re guessing most of you aren’t in favour of cutting off the limbs of a live animal?
Evil.
Pure evil.
Hipsters.
Off topic, but the octopus can regenerate its tentacles like a starfish can regenerate its own arms.
No, it should be made illegal for other reasons, because octopus meat is rubbery and too chewy.
There is also the matter of parasites and parasite eggs that can be in live seafood.....
Mmmmmmm... tapeworms...
Gagh!
Why not? There seemingly are no limits to government in the US.
Calamari made the right way is soft and delicious.
What about live scungilli? Not out of the can.
I wish someone would put you back in the can.
No complaints about boiled lobster though.
Maybe PETA likes the taste too much.
Remember when they wanted to call fish sea kittens?
There is NO good reason to do this.
It’s wrong, it’s cruel, and it’s just barbaric.
Off topic:
I once came across a youtube vid of an anaconda eating a large croc head first. The crocodile’s tail was flapping violently, obviously it was still alive. I promptly shut down my computer, and had nightmares all night. Though, am sure the anaconda didn’t care - top of the food chain.
I think you kill an octopus by stabbing it between the eyes.
The tentacles would still wriggle - it’s residual nerve action - just as they would cut from a living octopus.
Eating the tentacles would still be perverse and decadent, but at least the octopus would suffer no more than the usual death.
“Well, y’see, this is a real special pig.”
No. It sounds kind of fruity. You sure it wasn’t you who thought it up?
I think it’s grotesque. I understand being part of the food chain, but I don’t understand making something suffer.
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