Re: Chinese delicacy, fried fish, still alive
I think there's a bit of a difference with a lobster. If prepared properly the lobster goes to sleep before he dies. You put him in cool water and then turn on the eye. Doing it that way also ensures that the meat is tender.
Unlike how I did it because I didn't know any better. I was making a 'romantic' dinner for my wife and myself, threw the first lobster in hot water and cooked him up with his homey within watching distance. The second one, knowing what was coming... struggled. He wound up flipping himself over in the boiling pot and writhing in agony until dead.
That was the last time I bought live lobster. I've ordered it at Red Lobster, but they don't cook it in front of me.
Re: Chinese delicacy, fried fish, still alive
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Youngblood
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Howlin Mad Missy
Right. I am sure you are aware, the science field is fairly divided in where consciousness begins and ends in lower level intelligence species.
Basically, we feel a need to put the bar somewhere, as we humanize things, using ourselves as the ultimate example of consciousness. The complete lesser being a single cell of life.
If it wasn't completely impossible to sustain life without some form of nutrition, I bet there'd be anti-vegetarians too. But we can't, can we. That would essentially make us anti-food. And our species couldn't exist. So atleast we aren't that shameful of ourselves. "Don't eat the plants! They're alive!"
My friend, you must not ever have heard of the Breatharians.
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My friend, you must not ever have heard of the
Breatharians.
lol that is hilarious.
I should have known, I mean, the bounds of our stupidity is seemingly endless. Wikipedia was funny reading too regarding it, especially about some of the founding members and people of rank caught sneaking off for slurpies and twinkies and cheeseburgers. ;D Inedia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not banging away on vegetarians Missy. If people see fit to take that lifestyle and believe it for moral principles, then great. If they can sustain with good health and lead a long happy life, go for it. I won't ridicule it. I'd like to see less people in the world eating dogs, personally, as I have one that was rather abused and it gets me angry thinking how anyone could hurt such a harmless creature.
Are we herbivore, carnivore, omnivore? Who knows right. Human I guess. In my case, ima hungry one, and all this talk has me wanting a steak...
Re: Chinese delicacy, fried fish, still alive
If memory serves there was a woman who took it seriously and wound up starving to death.
Re: Chinese delicacy, fried fish, still alive
I pretty much agree with everything Youngblood has to say. It's more or less just cultural differences in these types of matter.
If you think the Chinese are barbarians because of this, they pretty much think Westerners are barbarians for placing their elderly love ones in old folks home to wither and die. Again just using that example as seeing things from another perspective, not that I want to get into a debate on that.
Morality is all relative due to one's upbringing. I don't really see the sense in condemning someone's eating habits due to one's cultural biases.
