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PETA claims octopuses served alive
upi ^ | May 4, 2010

Posted on 05/04/2010 1:42:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono

NEW YORK, - A prominent U.S. animal rights group is accusing two New York restaurants of using live octopus in their san-nakji dishes.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said restaurants Sik Gaek and East Seafood Restaurant have been serving san-nakji, which comes from Korean and Chinese waters, without properly killing the sea creatures first, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

The group has been picketing the establishments and has sent letters to the district attorney's office in the city's Queens borough seeking animal cruelty charges against the businesses.

San-nakji is prepared by chopping the tentacles into small pieces that continue to writhe while being served with garlic and jalapeno peppers.

A Sik Gaek worker said the tentacles continue to move because they are served quickly after the animal is killed by having its head split open and its brain removed.

Tim Carpenter, curator of fish and invertebrates at the Seattle Aquarium in Seattle, said the tentacles continue to move due to nerve activity, the newspaper reported.

"There is a lot of nerve activity that occurs in an octopus' tentacles. It doesn't matter if it's dead or alive," he said.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Humor; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: jpb; octopus; peta
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1 posted on 05/04/2010 1:42:51 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Doesn’t an octopus eat fish while still alive? Just checking.


2 posted on 05/04/2010 1:44:17 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: JoeProBono

Anyone should be allowed to eat any animal alive if they own it.


3 posted on 05/04/2010 1:46:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Hypocrisy: "Animal rightists" who eat meat & pen up pets while accusing hog farmers of cruelty.)
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To: JoeProBono

sounds interesting.. i wanna try it!


4 posted on 05/04/2010 1:47:10 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced, tattooed, pierced, harley hatin, meghan mccain luvin', smoker and pit bull owner..what?)
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To: absolootezer0

But, a baby being BORN alive is a-ok.


5 posted on 05/04/2010 1:48:02 PM PDT by Cheryllynn
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To: JoeProBono

Now there’s a meal that sticks to your ribs.


6 posted on 05/04/2010 1:50:00 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: JoeProBono

Save the octopus for when Detroit wins its next playoff series.


7 posted on 05/04/2010 1:51:32 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: RichInOC
Now there’s a meal that sticks to your ribs.

Not to mention your bowl, your chopsticks, your fingers, your cheeks...

8 posted on 05/04/2010 1:51:47 PM PDT by magslinger (Tagline impounded as a threat to national security.)
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To: RichInOC

Don’t forget the parasites that might be along for the ride, hee hee.


9 posted on 05/04/2010 1:54:16 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: JoeProBono

That’s disgusting.

Eating Octopus anyway is disgusting.

Oriental cultures have gone so far as to serve up live monkeys with their skulls opened up so the diners can scoop their brains out of their screaming bodies.

PETA generally gets an “F” from me in the common sense area, but here I support them.

Human beings shouldn’t eat live things. Even the Noahide Laws confirm that.


10 posted on 05/04/2010 1:55:15 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: JoeProBono

See:

http://www.noahide.org/


11 posted on 05/04/2010 1:56:16 PM PDT by ZULU
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To: ZULU

I saw this show on Japanese cuisine and there was a restaurant in Toyko that had a big fish pond and you picked the fish you wanted to eat. They scopped it out, sliced it open and you ate it while it was still alive. I like sushi but that is too much for me.


12 posted on 05/04/2010 1:57:00 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: JoeProBono

So what? I love live clam at sushi places that are good and have seen this dish on TV as well. Good grief they are invertebrates for crying out loud.


13 posted on 05/04/2010 2:06:41 PM PDT by doodad
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To: JoeProBono
Could be hard to swallow.
14 posted on 05/04/2010 2:09:29 PM PDT by Hotmetal (Lead,follow,or get the Hell out of the way.554th REDHORSE)
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To: RichInOC
recently had a CSI program on it....found a octopus in the throat of a dead body...It had to do with how you consumed the critter, if you stuck it in your mouth the wrong way, the suckers grab hold of your throat and kill you....

I imagine the octopus saying, you want to kill me, I'll kill you back....:O)

15 posted on 05/04/2010 2:15:32 PM PDT by goat granny
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“Don’t forget the parasites that might be along for the ride, hee hee. “

Mmmmm sweet tasty parasites.....


16 posted on 05/04/2010 2:20:40 PM PDT by GraceG
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17 posted on 05/04/2010 2:22:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Gakh tastes better eaten live than cooked, as well. Or so I am told.


18 posted on 05/04/2010 2:25:37 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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To: JoeProBono

I like the colors of that 8 legged critter...It should be made into a broach.


19 posted on 05/04/2010 2:30:30 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: absolootezer0

I don’t think I’d like dead puses.


20 posted on 05/04/2010 2:30:31 PM PDT by boomop1
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