Should Eating Live Octopus Be Made Illegal?

Metro (U.K) ^ | Monday 21 Nov 2016 | Lisa Bowman

[MNDude]

Octopi are the most intelligent invertibre! No joke!

[Sgt_Schultze]

It's a good thing, in the wild, these octopuses eat only carrion. Occasionally, when they are really hungry, the quickly and humanely put down their prey before consuming it. All predators do this.

[Organic Panic]

Octopus should be smoked and eaten. Best in the world at Fresh Catch in Kaneohe. Good stuff.

[TheDon]

Now if can just enforce this among animals...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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?

Umm...yeah. A bit. There's a pretty disturbing video I once had the misfortune to run across on YouTube, of a lion eating a crippled water buffalo. The water buffalo was still conscious, moaning in horror and pain as it was eaten alive. A lion is a dumb animal, and it couldn't comprehend the needless suffering it was inflicting by not bothering to kill it's prey before it consumed it. I prefer my steaks medium rare, but it's not too much to ask that a human being give an animal a clean death before eating it.

[minnesota_bound]

if you go swimming at night in the ocean the octopus eats you live.

[roadcat]

It won't be long before they ban cats from eating live mice, and fining the human owners. I've watched cats bring mice onto my deck, with several cats playing and taunting the mice before slowing devouring the creature.

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.

[odds]

Many animals actually kill or somehow incapacitate their prey (food) to prevent them from escaping - that’s more instinct than intelligence.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

This article agrees with you!

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-octopuses-smart/

;0)

[abigkahuna]

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.

[LukeL]

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.

[broken_arrow1]

No more swallowing gold fish?

[Daffynition]

[luvbach1]

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.

[SauronOfMordor]

If you’ve ever eaten lobster, it’s supposed to be alive when you drop it into the boiling water.

[Daffynition]

You're doing something wrong

[Mount Athos]

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.”

[Daffynition]

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.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

What if it was smart enough to pick up a knife and stab you back?
LOL

[a fool in paradise]

Investigators visited restaurants in Los Angeles in September of this year and filmed chefs pinning down live octopuses and ripping off their limbs.

Just imagine the outrage if industry professionals were doing this to very small live human babies and selling the pieces...