Eating a fish alive

It's a sad fact of life that many, many people consider animals to be mere disposable objects and not living creatures worthy of a clean, humane death.

It's cruel alright, but no crueler then some of the things I've witnessed here in the U.S.
 
onebyone said:
It may not be a fish, but I think this is actually more horrifying...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z84kpr9GIu8
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I am just going to quote ReefScape here:

"Whether we agree or disagree with things like this, its tradition in the perticular countrys where these things occur...we should not slate them for it...what one country might see as barbaric, another country will see it as part of every day life..."

That whole show is about different cultures and what they eat, its called Bizarre Foods, whats more bizarre to your average westerner than eating a frogs heart. Do I find it somewhat disgusting, sure, but then I grew up eating bangers n mash. However, I understand that other cultures are going to eat different things than what I do, regardless of whether I like / agree with it or not... ask a Jewish person what they think of an American eating pork? Ask a Hindu what they think of someone in the UK eating beef? What's normal to you and I is wrong and possibly disgusting to many other cultures.
 
I have seen worst.

There was an old movie "Faces of Death" were they have this monkey "trapped" in a table with just it's head above the table and people sitting around it and with little hammers hittting it on the head to crack it's skull and eat it's brains.

YECK!!!!!
 
"Whether we agree or disagree with things like this, its tradition in the perticular countrys where these things occur...we should not slate them for it...what one country might see as barbaric, another country will see it as part of every day life..."

While Reefscape has a very good point about respecting other cultures, one has to draw a moral line somewhere. If not, we begin to condone all behaviors as "respect worthy," when quite simply and honestly (and not very politically correctly) they are not. The issue is quite clearly a slippery slope.
 
I'm SO glad I read the responces before I viewed that one.
 
I have had to put animals down becasue of their inability to understand why they are dying, the real pain, and I know of some farmers that would cry when there favorite farm animal went to market.

unlike wild animals Id like to think that since we have the means to kill an animal before eating it we would do so, but that me, while some find humor in the story of the 3 legged pig.
 
OMG that is sad now im BLEEPIN mad and depressed how can they just poke a beautiful fish like that and take its gutts out and eat it alive?? all i was saying in my head is ( how would u guys like me cookin u alive and then just pokin at u for fun then eating u well ur still alive ) grrrrrrrrrr :(
 
That Andrew Zimmerman, bizarre foods episode was very interesting. Having went to Japan myself, that bar didn't surprise me one bit. It is a bar special for the odd and unusual, I saw plenty in Japan but was to weirded out to try it :S.

Though I have had fresh sashimi(raw fish) served, practically rang a bell, fished out the fish, cut and served within 5 minutes or less.

It's there style of prepping food, and the new thing in Asia. New ways to prep food but with a twist.

I wouldn't even want to go into how slaughterhouses dispatch animals... *shudders*
 
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