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?
Octopi are the most intelligent invertibre! No joke!
Octopus should be smoked and eaten. Best in the world at Fresh Catch in Kaneohe. Good stuff.
Now if can just enforce this among animals...
if you go swimming at night in the ocean the octopus eats you live.
Hey, it's nature at work. Predators eat prey alive, it happens all the time. So why can't people do it? No, I won't - my mom made me eat octopus (dead) one time and I hated it.
Many animals actually kill or somehow incapacitate their prey (food) to prevent them from escaping - that’s more instinct than intelligence.
I saw a facebook video that had half a live frog in a bowl. The diner would eat the legs fresh and then pluck out the organs I suppose...all while the poor frog was staring up at you alive. Cruel. I cand understand that there might be certain emergency circumstances that an animal is eaten alive...perhaps a wilderness survival situation.
Otherwise I think it is cruel. Put the animal out of its misery and eat it raw if you wish, but render the poor creature dead first.
God’s law in Leviticus prohibits eating the flesh of a still living animal. People use to cut the humps off a camel and consume the flesh in times of need, that way they got a meal and their transportation was still alive.
No more swallowing gold fish?
I once ordered a fish dish in a Chines restaurant in San Diego. I sent it back immediately when it was served, fried alive, gasping. It had slits cut on each side to allow it to cook, avoiding the head. I did not know the fish was going to be served still alive. I assume this restaurant still is serving that dish—probably to Chinese.
If you’ve ever eaten lobster, it’s supposed to be alive when you drop it into the boiling water.
it’s even older than leviticus, it’s one of the 7 noahide laws (time of noah). Genesis 9:4
“However, flesh with its life-blood [in it], you shall not eat.”
There’s a tradition among fisherman; to eat the beating heart of the first tuna you catch. I have no idea who or why the tradition was started. UGH!
https://socalsalty.wordpress.com/2011/08/26/video-eating-the-heart-of-a-tuna/
It’s not macho, it’s gross.
What if it was smart enough to pick up a knife and stab you back?
LOL
Just imagine the outrage if industry professionals were doing this to very small live human babies and selling the pieces...
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