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?
I don't think that it is too much to ask of human beings to treat their prey in a humane fashion.
If eating live octopi is made a criminal offense, then only criminals will eat octopi and a great black market in live octopi will emerge. Maybe.
There was a similar furor years ago when hippies found that a secretion from a desert toad gave them a hallucinogenic high. Toad sucking as it was called immediately became a target of the DEA and the toad went onto the illegal substance list.
It seemed to be the perfect dodge for illegal dealers. {Honest officer, that’s not my toad. It just came hopping by.}
Unfortunately, the toad sucking revolution never materialized and as far as I can tell, the DEA never prosecuted a single case.
Octopus is great stir fried
Christians and Jews are forbidden to eat live animals in the Old Testament. It’s unspeakably cruel.
Agreed.
Let’s face it. True American, Baseball, Apple Pie culture is the best, these kinds of practices are disgusting and not American.
Only Blue Ringed octupus should be eaten alive...
we’re guessing most of you aren’t in favour of cutting off the limbs of a live animal?
Hey, a pig like that you don’t eat all at one time!
LOL!
UT oh!!
True, but they are not eaten when torn from a live animal!
What they are doing is cruel, and there is no justification for it!
So no more raw oysters?
Silly
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