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?
Calimari is squid.
Stab you eight times?
yeah, I’m Italian, I know that. That’s why I said it.
But thanks :)
Same with steamed crabs. Having grown up in Maryland I know it is a cardinal sin (and a health hazard) to put a dead crab in the steamer, any dead crabs are thrown out. This also applies to clams, mussels, scallops and oysters.
http://www.penncoveshellfish.com/Products/sf_care.html
I love raw oysters BTW. And yes, while they are not wriggling around, they are alive when you eat them.
Pork chops and bacon are still yummy :)
You just can’t get fresher food than the morsel in your mouth that’s writhing in agony as you chew it up. Can’t conceive that it’s worth it, though.
Exactly.
Years ago on the Rush Limbaugh TV show a chef cut up a live lobster & threw the still writhing parts into a skillet. Katie Couric wanted Rush prosecuted for airing animal cruelty.
A marine biologist later stated that a crustacean’s nervous system lacks the ability to perceive pain. Oh, well.
Yes, they are. Amazingly so. Absolutely no invertebrate is as intelligent. I have always wanted to share my home with one where it could get in and out of its aquarium and we could learn to count, play ball and do things that might entertain it and me. I think it is possible.
Oddly enough, this is covered by one of the Seven Laws of Noah. The Hebrew Noahide Laws, that apply to all mankind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Laws_of_Noah
First read this last night. This is a sick practice. Shame we have to ‘make it illegal’ to make it go away, but sometimes that is what it takes.
I always chew my live oysters. I’m concerned that if I swallow them whole, they will swim around inside of me for a while.
Looks like sumthin out of Alien movie!
Maybe that Kitykat should stick to hunting mice or rats .. MEOW!!
A classic National Lampoon cartoon depicted a frog amputee emerging from the kitchen and was also featured on their second LP, “That’s Not Funny, That’s Sick” in 1973.
Yes. That is gross, sick, immoral and evil.
If that’s their tradition then I would beg to disagree to eat such live octopus when I get to visit Korea. Thats gonna be yucky for me..wahhhh!!!
Not if properly prepared.
Well, that’s a new definition of Fresh
So far though no Subway Octopus sandwich added to their fresh line
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