Chinese diners eat live fish

Art said:
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*.
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actually iirc you have sell on any whale killed for science.
 
Google 'earthlings'..

gives a good insight into how humans use animals.. and how disrespectfuly/disgustingly we go about it.
 
King85 said:
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
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Because if it's still alive I'm also eating its soul.

Tasty.
 
before this story came to light i had a weird dream that i lived in a dorm with people that were into half cooking themselves and then the rest of the people would eat bits of them whilst they were alive. all very bizare, and now this!
 
theDude said:
before this story came to light i had a weird dream that i lived in a dorm with people that were into half cooking themselves and then the rest of the people would eat bits of them whilst they were alive. all very bizare, and now this!
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After a bit of extra research I've deduced this means you're going to murder a prostitute!:eek:
 
Tefal said:
actually iirc you have sell on any whale killed for science.
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Yeah, but outside Japan there's a bit of doubt over whether or not the Japanese really need to kill something around 900 whales per year for scientific research. It's been suggested more than a few times that the amount of whale meat this produces and their apparent taste for the stuff aren't coincidences, given the ban on whaling purely for meat.
 
Art said:
Yeah, but outside Japan there's a bit of doubt over whether or not the Japanese really need to kill something around 900 whales per year for scientific research. It's been suggested more than a few times that the amount of whale meat this produces and their apparent taste for the stuff aren't coincidences, given the ban on whaling purely for meat.
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Should they just do what the other whaling countries do (iceland/norway - 1000+ a yeah iirc etc) and say "well the stocks are now high enough for sustained whaling if done with adequate quotas" and just do it under the flag of "whaling for whaling's sake"
 
Tefal said:
Should they just do what the other whaling countries do (iceland/norway - 1000+ a yeah iirc etc) and say "well the stocks are now high enough for sustained whaling if done with adequate quotas" and just do it under the flag of "whaling for whaling's sake"
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Given that over a hundred of the whales they caught during 2007/2008 were apparently on the endangered or threatened lists I'd say no.
 
Looking more into this technique, earlier in the process the fish is completely gutted before being fried and served. It's all done excessively quickly to ensure that the head is still moving, in what I assume is a musculatory response similar to the snake preparation in the already-posted video. Kind of like a culinary "shock tactic".

The fish itself is not likely to be really alive for long. Certainly not long enough to "experience" being eaten.

Whether or not fish actually feel pain, or are in any cognisant as to what is happening is a different debate altogether, but does factor into how "repugnant" this act really is.
 
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