Disgusting chinese feeding habits
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don't watch if you're quite squeamish. As a confirmed game persuits man, and died in the wool meat eater, even i find this idea highly repulsive:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...
don't watch if you're quite squeamish. As a confirmed game persuits man, and died in the wool meat eater, even i find this idea highly repulsive:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howabou...
There is a difference between really, properly fresh - which is an ideal I consider retaurants should strive to do with their fish dishes - and it still moving whilst you eat it. Yes I find that repulsive, myself.
There again - most of us are prepared to eat lobster that got boiled alive. (Only way for them to be healthy to eat, apparently, something in their guts starts turning poisonous almost immediately after death...)
If you are going to eat meat a small amount of cruelty is inevitable. I'd rather it was minimised, however.
There again - most of us are prepared to eat lobster that got boiled alive. (Only way for them to be healthy to eat, apparently, something in their guts starts turning poisonous almost immediately after death...)
If you are going to eat meat a small amount of cruelty is inevitable. I'd rather it was minimised, however.
Silver993tt said:
RichB said:
Tmost chefs actually pierce the brain with a knife before plunging them in the boiling pot.
so that's ok then? 
Edited by Silver993tt on Wednesday 18th November 17:34
boiling live mussels...
And who can foget the simple bug/insect snack food bitten in half alive...
I think I would need to know more about fish, their nervous system & pain/distress signals, higher brain functions and cognisance etc before I knew whether that was actually cruel or not. I am quite happy to eat live shellfish, such as oysters, but a fish is a lot higher up the evolutionary pecking order I suppose.
Silver993tt said:
RichB said:
most chefs actually pierce the brain with a knife before plunging them in the boiling pot.
so that's OK then? RichB said:
Silver993tt said:
RichB said:
most chefs actually pierce the brain with a knife before plunging them in the boiling pot.
so that's OK then? I share your opinions on meat eaters needing to get to grips with death, but at the end of the day so few people know how there food is produced that this sort of thing all comes as a bit of a shock.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I think Halal slaughter is pretty uneccessary and yes I've seen it happen in a halal slaughterhouse. I drove home through Balham today - all the butchers proudly declaring that their meat was "non-stunned" prior to sticking (cutting the throat).
It's out of sight out of mind when it comes to this stuff.
I think it comes down to necessity.
Is an oyster better alive than dead? Well it is certainly good to be as fresh as possible, and just how do you kill an oyster before eating it, and if it is already dead, how do you know how long it has been dead for?
Ditto Lobster - assuming that the knife trick doesn't do the job (I don't bother with it personally anyway)
With the carp in question, and the squid I ate, it is possible to kill them first, and I don't think they will taste any different - so IMO it is unnecessary.
Halal - probably unnecessary, although I don't have a problem with it as I think it does the job quickly enough. I've slit a lamb's throat, and apart from getting covered in blood by mistake it was a simple and quick operation.
Is an oyster better alive than dead? Well it is certainly good to be as fresh as possible, and just how do you kill an oyster before eating it, and if it is already dead, how do you know how long it has been dead for?
Ditto Lobster - assuming that the knife trick doesn't do the job (I don't bother with it personally anyway)
With the carp in question, and the squid I ate, it is possible to kill them first, and I don't think they will taste any different - so IMO it is unnecessary.
Halal - probably unnecessary, although I don't have a problem with it as I think it does the job quickly enough. I've slit a lamb's throat, and apart from getting covered in blood by mistake it was a simple and quick operation.
Most people don't like eating live anything- most squirm at oysters- but less be honest molluscs have the very most basic of nervous systems- even then i'd prefer to kill them- and i certainly wouldn't want to eat one bit by bit.
Its the fact that the animal is quickly despatched- plunging a crustacean into boiling water is hopefully ok because it kills them quickly (at least that's what i beleive).
Its unimagineable to disect and eat any organism piece by piece. i just DONT get it.
Its the fact that the animal is quickly despatched- plunging a crustacean into boiling water is hopefully ok because it kills them quickly (at least that's what i beleive).
Its unimagineable to disect and eat any organism piece by piece. i just DONT get it.
There was a tv program on this a while ago.
It focused around the biggest resteraunt in the world in Thailand. Edit - its not the biggest anymore.
They showed the way the fish was cooked by wrapping its head in a cold tea towel and deep frying its body.
Snake was also cooked so fast it still moved around the plate.
A live duck was bought out and a straw pushed through its skin into its heart.
Made me heave....Dirty dirty b
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It focused around the biggest resteraunt in the world in Thailand. Edit - its not the biggest anymore.
They showed the way the fish was cooked by wrapping its head in a cold tea towel and deep frying its body.
Snake was also cooked so fast it still moved around the plate.
A live duck was bought out and a straw pushed through its skin into its heart.
Made me heave....Dirty dirty b
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