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.
Doesn’t an octopus eat fish while still alive? Just checking.
Anyone should be allowed to eat any animal alive if they own it.
sounds interesting.. i wanna try it!
But, a baby being BORN alive is a-ok.
Now there’s a meal that sticks to your ribs.
Save the octopus for when Detroit wins its next playoff series.
Not to mention your bowl, your chopsticks, your fingers, your cheeks...
Don’t forget the parasites that might be along for the ride, hee hee.
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.
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.
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.
I imagine the octopus saying, you want to kill me, I'll kill you back....:O)
“Don’t forget the parasites that might be along for the ride, hee hee. “
Mmmmm sweet tasty parasites.....
Gakh tastes better eaten live than cooked, as well. Or so I am told.
I like the colors of that 8 legged critter...It should be made into a broach.
I don’t think I’d like dead puses.
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