Eating a fish alive

I think some people are missing the point that it isn't the fact that they eat fish, it's HOW they eat fish... by burning them alive and carrying out the torcher.
I've been to China and other parts of Asia too, I refused to eat many things over there. I have a general rule, I don't eat anything I keep as a pet (cats, dogs, fish, and shrimp), for my own morality.
 
We should all just be hunters and gatherers. That would be fun. Then we don't have to fry poor fish in restaurants, keep chickens in factories, or tell certain stalks of corn that they have no chance at finding true love and must "intermingle" with each other.

Either that or we should all just eat rocks...they don't have feelings, right?

(ssshhh...don't tell Billy, my pet rock, I said that)
 
jpappy789 said:
We should all just be hunters and gatherers. That would be fun. Then we don't have to fry poor fish in restaurants, keep chickens in factories, or tell certain stalks of corn that they have no chance at finding true love and must "intermingle" with each other.

Either that or we should all just eat rocks...they don't have feelings, right?

(ssshhh...don't tell Billy, my pet rock, I said that)
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lol:)
I understand that cultures are cultures and we have to be acceting of them, it's kinda like the aztecs and how they use to pull a live heart outa a persons body.

But we wouldn't let someone kill someone else for their beating heart today, would we?

There is a fine line between what is cruel and what isn't. There is a difference between a long painful death and a quick one.

I don't think that the people here are trying to offend different cultures and their cultural activities, rather to say that there is a more humane way of killing animals then doing it while they are still alive and can feel evry little pull and cut.

We have the ability to make a difference, we just have to be careful and mindful of what we say and how we say it. There is a better way then downing a culture because of what they believe in doing. Some of them probably don't understand that animals feel pain, just like humans.

There is a difference between accidently killing ants on the footpath and killing animals on purpose, with the knowledge of their pain. Just like there is a difference in eating plants - they don't feel pain though, do they?

Just my thoughts anyway:)
 
I've seen PETA videos of rural chinese farmers skinning LIVE dogs for their pelts. The animals are hit once on the head with a stick to stun them and them their skin is literally ripped of their bodies in one swipe. This video in particular portrayed heaps of skinned dogs screaming for mercy with absolutely no skin left on their body. Anybody who defends this type of treatment of animals in the slightest, whether they attribute it to cultural, ethnic, or disparity levels, is in serious need of a paradigm shift. There does not exist a culture on this planet that does not understand that all living things experience pain. All humans have the capacity to understand this. I am absolutely mortified by this video as well. To think that supposed "superior beings" could laugh so nonchalantly about the suffering of another creature on this planet is disgusting. When I see this type of blatant disregard for mother natures creations and billions of years of evolution, it comes as no surprise to me that hundreds of species go extinct on a weekly basis. I could go on all day. My two cents.

The latin translation of homo sapiens sapiens is "thinking man". Contemplate the irony in that.

-Brady
 
hahaha i just realized im in reefscapes quotes
 
I really like how this thread is civil unlike youtube comments. I try to express my opinion there and i get sworn at and called names just for saying its culture.

I agree with a lot that was said here. It is some one elses culture( may not be tradition but its still culture). That fish suffered a lot less then some things that happen in slaughter houses here in the US.

Honestly i wouldn't mind trying it but i have been exposed to many different cultures since i was little and i try to be as open as possible. ( i only try food things though i am totally against skinning animals for fur coats and other material objects)
Would i prepare it myself? Heck no! and i would only try it just to say i have. If i have to kill i would kill it as humanely as possible.
 
wufscello said:
I agree with a lot that was said here. It is some one elses culture( may not be tradition but its still culture). That fish suffered a lot less then some things that happen in slaughter houses here in the US.
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Any law-abiding US slaughterhouse must render the animal completely unconscious (stunned) before killing it by a humane method whilst it is still unconcsious. So I don't see how that can be worse than being cooked and eaten alive.
 
meh, what bugs me is how people are quick to target other cultures on what they're used to simply because it doesn't fit in with our own moral standards.

OK, while this video takes things to an extreme, I think it's unfair when people say how horrible and disgusting it is to eat half the things other cultures eat, including certain raw foods, cats, dogs, bugs, etc.
Many cultures can't grasp how anyone can possibly eat some of the garbage some of us eat all the time... Fried, greasy, oily, fatty foods... Deep fried chocolate bars, burgers with enough bacon on it to feed a family. . .



The way I see it is, humans come first.. once they're fed, then we can help the animals. We have a tendency to criticise what we're not used to. I don't think that's right.
 
I am ok with people killing any animal for food, as long as it is killed humanely. Poor people still possess the ability and means to do so. I don't see how this is a discussion on what cultures eat so much as how animals are slaughtered.
The action in question was most likely done to elicit attention, and perhaps more business from the shock factor.
 
Reframer said:
I am ok with people killing any animal for food, as long as it is killed humanely. Poor people still possess the ability and means to do so. I don't see how this is a discussion on what cultures eat so much as how animals are slaughtered.
The action in question was most likely done to elicit attention, and perhaps more business from the shock factor.
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I do agree with that...the article comes off as this being a new practice, not one of tradition. So I will say that this is a rather displeasing (to the stomach mainly) way of attracting customers.
 
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