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.
And 3,300 unborn children are ripped apart while alive in abortion clinics EVERY DAY too. Any comment, PETA???????
Saw a scene from an asian marketplace where they sold live snakes as a take-home food item. Customer bought a snake they wanted to cook, seller skinned the snake alive and wrapped it in brown paper.
I believe humans are not animals, and should show compassion, even though in the animal world there is none. I wouldn't take a knife to a cow out in the field and just start cutting away pieces of its flesh.
LET'S GO WINGS!!!
Aren’t raw oysters eaten alive?
I don’t expect to see many octopi on the ice tonight or for the rest of the series.
You guys only held serve.
>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.<
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Hell, I had live sushi in a restaurant in Little Tokyo in LA in 1968 when most Americans didn’t even know about sushi.
Yes, and now I’m hungry for oysters..
I was told my a friend’s friend who is a sushi sous-chef (say THAT ten times fast) that the test of good, fresh sushi is when you slap it on the table, it should flip up a little. The slapping releases the neurotransmitters.
Snookie seems unimpressed. (Nah, she’s not fat enough to be the real Snookie.)
Indeed.
I’d have to get A LOT more hungry to try that. A LOT more.
LOL. You need some Chang Beer to go with that!!
Most excellent — as they say these days!!
Thats a violation of Noahide Law. And its totally savage.
Such people are behaving like subhumans.
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