Eating fish alive

[vefo]

I happened to turn the TV on to see a show on the biggest restaurant in china and a mass competition which included the partial cooking of a fish so that it could be eaten while still alive, it's damn sick as far as I am concerned. I just can't imagine what would attract someone to want to eat anything alive.

[Paulo Pereira]

As I understand it, there is little regard for animal rights in China, and that includes dogs and cats. So I imagine fish are really screwed.

[Veggily]

II just can't imagine what would attract someone to want to eat anything alive.It's considered the ultimate in "fresh" if the fish is still alive. Yeah, very sick, indeed. There are such "delicacies" at restaurants where I am, too. Slice the fish and serve it on a bed of ice while it is STILL ALIVE. It's unbearable.

[veggiepeace3294]

It's considered the ultimate in "fresh" if the fish is still alive. Yeah, very sick, indeed. There are such "delicacies" at restaurants where I am, too. Slice the fish and serve it on a bed of ice while it is STILL ALIVE. It's unbearable.

That Is Absolutely Horrible! :no::grr::(

[FreestylePup]

That is horrible!! Not to mention cruel, eating a LIVE ANIMAL!

[cstadt]

yep, it's the freshness. But the same culture eats a wide variety of fermented things too.. bleh

[animallover7249]

Digustingly cruel. :(

[lirpa1]

Oh my gosh! that makes me want to cry!!!

:( horrible. wish they got what the dished out!

[vefo]

I watched another episode of the program last night, its called " The biggest Chinese restaurant in the world" on SBS Australia essentially about the logistics of running the restaurant. The handling of the chickens was disturbing to say the least, I only hope that the chicken eaters saw it and took notice.

[kolo]

Awh mate, that is disgusting!

[skfamiliar]

I happened to turn the TV on to see a show on the biggest restaurant in china and a mass competition which included the partial cooking of a fish so that it could be eaten while still alive, it's damn sick as far as I am concerned. I just can't imagine what would attract someone to want to eat anything alive.

i watched a video of people eating little mini- octopi live. one of the most disgusting things i've ever seen. the things were wrapping their tentacles around their chins and nostrils while going down their throats.

[skfamiliar]

here's an example of some pretty live sushi:

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=2YC7EoPO1wg

[karachanx]

that is truly disturbing. I hear they eat octopus alive too? they stab a lil' octo with a stick and swallow them whole...

[sleepydvdr]

It may sound horrible, but what the heck is the difference between eating it right now and scaling it alive? It seems like the exact same thing to me. It's just that eating it immediately increases the gross out factor.

[tweedyfrog]

I had a friend who was in a market in vietnam, she spotted a puppy for sale and negotiated with the seller as she wanted to adopt it, they took it to the back (she didn't even wonder why) and brought it out to her dead in a bag.... they were selling them as food..she was devastated, I am devastated everytime I think about it,I wish she had not told me...How can people just have no compassion at all?

[jessican3267]

I had a friend who was in a market in vietnam, she spotted a puppy for sale and negotiated with the seller as she wanted to adopt it, they took it to the back (she didn't even wonder why) and brought it out to her dead in a bag.... they were selling them as food..she was devastated, I am devastated everytime I think about it,I wish she had not told me...How can people just have no compassion at all?
OMG, that is horrible. I would be devastated too.

[LuckyDuck]

I had a friend who was in a market in vietnam, she spotted a puppy for sale and negotiated with the seller as she wanted to adopt it, they took it to the back (she didn't even wonder why) and brought it out to her dead in a bag.... they were selling them as food..she was devastated, I am devastated everytime I think about it,I wish she had not told me...How can people just have no compassion at all?

Literally, I feel physically sick.

[jenni-anti-fur]

That is horrible!! Not to mention cruel, eating a LIVE ANIMAL!

just too awfuL!!!:mad:

peace love and happiness

jenn

[ajax13]

I do think that, even if this fish wasn't alive and only looked it, that the eater shows a more callous heart than your "typical omnivore". Different cultures notwithstanding, most people intuit some difference between a fish's subjectivity and a plant's. Not that all intuitions prove to be correct, and not that any given person can't learn to drown out feelings of empathy.

[┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘]

It may sound horrible, but what the heck is the difference between eating it right now and scaling it alive? It seems like the exact same thing to me. It's just that eating it immediately increases the gross out factor.

Exactly. In nature, when an animal is eaten by a predator it is always eaten alive. You could say that as humans we have the ability to not be so "barbaric" but when you actually look at the factory farming of animals that most of us are used to is it really any more "civilized"?

We crowd millions of animals into cramped cages from birth then systematically slaughter them and send pieces of them around the world for people to eat. The average meat eater in nations like the U.S. will go down to a fast food restaraunt, order a bunch of cooked animal parts, eat their fill, and then toss the rest in the garbage having no appreciation for the life or death of the animal. I'm sure most of you have friends or family members that are like this.

Do you look upon them with the same disgust or have you been conditioned to your own cultural norms as well?

[ajax13]

Exactly. In nature, when an animal is eaten by a predator it is always eaten alive. You could say that as humans we have the ability to not be so "barbaric" but when you actually look at the factory farming of animals that most of us are used to is it really any more "civilized"?

We crowd millions of animals into cramped cages from birth then systematically slaughter them and send pieces of them around the world for people to eat. The average meat eater in nations like the U.S. will go down to a fast food restaraunt, order a bunch of cooked animal parts, eat their fill, and then toss the rest in the garbage having no appreciation for the life or death of the animal. I'm sure most of you have friends or family members that are like this.

Do you look upon them with the same disgust or have you been conditioned to your own cultural norms as well? I don't think many (well, at least not all) predators eat their prey alive. While I agree the "average US meat eater" displays a cold detachment from the brutal reality of their animal foods, I think that detachment sometimes stems from a deep-seated anxiety that they could not do what they know others do for them (slaughter animals). I wouldn't call this a very honest way to live one's life, but in some ways I understand it.

[LuckyDuck]

Do you look upon them with the same disgust or have you been conditioned to your own cultural norms as well?

Um... yup.

Edit: "Yup" to the "Do you look upon them with the same disgust" part.

[animallover7249]

Do you look upon them with the same disgust?

Yes.

[ripvanfish]

WHYYY did I click on this thread?

[LuckyDuck]

WHYYY did I click on this thread?

Masochism.

Everyone is a little masochistic. At the very least. :)

Shall we skip on over to another one?