Chinese diners eat live fish

I'd be amazed if a Fish could concieve it's own pain and emotionally suffer from it rather than act in a pre-programmed way to a stimulus it's supposed to react to to preserve itself.
 
Makunouchi said:
I would eat this.

It's a fish for Christ sake. You can point me to as many scientific studies as you want, but I do not believe a fish has the capacity to understand pain on a level that we can in any way comprehend. And seeing as it's impossible to prove it either way, I'll believe what ever allows me to eat awesome food. And that looks awesome.

I didn't like the poking and prodding though... but that was obviously just to show on the video that it was still alive and flipping.
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Why would it taste any different if the same fish were taken live from the tank, had it's head removed than served to you in the same time frame? Would be just as fresh surely? All seems abit unnecessary to me really
 
matthewhotdude said:
Nothing compared to this

http://www.peta.org/feat/chineseFurFarms/index.asp
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That is absolutely disgusting. I'm numbed to much of what I see on the internet but to see an animal lose its skin and continue breathing and moving is in a completely different league.

How people can do such a thing and how others can just watch is beyond me. Empathy is a trait all humans are born with as a method of survival. Maybe they should use it.
 
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Yes there are worse things but would you think if i grabbed you pet cat fluffles or Dog Rex and battered and deep fried him alive...
 
neoboy said:
I take it eating it alive has nothing to do with taste but some silly tradition, like eating squid live in Korea?
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Or like one of the most advanced country on earth; killing whales....to learn more about them :confused:. "*** you whale and **** you dolphins" :D
 
neoboy said:
Wha...
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The point is, as von said, anything that benefits us, i.e. Chinese factory workers being paid nothing is all well and good yet eating some poxy fish whilst its still alive isn't?

Palm Oil relates to this:

Recently much has been made about the conversion of Asia's biodiverse rainforests for oil-palm cultivation. Environmental organizations have warned that by eating foods that use palm oil as an ingredient, Western consumers are directly fueling the destruction of orangutan habitat and sensitive ecosystems.
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So when it comes to furthering Western capitalism, you don't care yet whenever some Chinese eat a fish, its a tragedy.
 
I'm sorry but I either drank more than I thought or people aren't making sense. I was just wondering of the reason behind people eating the fish alive in the OP and people talking to me about palm tree oil, whales and working conditions in Chinese factories :confused:
 
neoboy said:
I'm sorry but I either drank more than I thought or people aren't making sense. I was just wondering of the reason behind people eating the fish alive in the OP and people talking to me about palm tree oil, whales and working conditions in Chinese factories :confused:
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I think the point they're trying to make is that we can hardly complain about Asian nations eating live fish when we're sitting here on our computers made from materials that required deforestation and environmental decline in other countries, eating food containing palm oil from plantations that are driving animals like the Orang-utan extinct and using electricity from gas that required doing bad things to dolphins to get hold of. Or words to that effect.

The whale dig is another thing the Japanese do. Whaling for food is technically illegal so they pretend to whale for science (somehow). When they're done with the "research" they figure that, hey, the whale is already dead anyway, we may as well eat what's left. *Cough*.
 
Yeah I got that, but I wasn't saying it's right or wrong I was just genuinely interested behind the reason they eat it when it's alive, i.e. whether they think it adds to the taste or it's just tradition.
 
neoboy said:
Yeah I got that, but I wasn't saying it's right or wrong I was just genuinely interested behind the reason they eat it when it's alive, i.e. whether they think it adds to the taste or it's just tradition.
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My comments weren't aimed at you directly, just general statements for the purpose of the thread. I should have just used a different quote. :)
 
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