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I'm torn on the subject. There's a Korean restaurant in Queens that serves live seafood (octopi chopped in front of you; hot pots with live scallops cooked at

I'm torn on the subject. There's a Korean restaurant in Queens that serves live seafood (octopi chopped in front of you; hot pots with live scallops cooked at your table): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfu9MzeEMxo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfu9MzeEMxo I don't have a problem with chopping up an octopus at the dinner table, but I probably wouldn't want to see a chicken clubbed to death before it lands in plate. On a different subject, I'm not sure that 'dignity' is a well-defined concept or that it applies to death in the first place. Is bleeding out from a cut throat as per the kosher slaughter method [1] less or more dignified than boiling alive in a pot? [1] https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/7/73/Properly-Slaughter-a-Cow-Under-the-Kosher-Method-Shechitah-Step-6.jpg/aid345855-v4-900px-Properly-Slaughter-a-Cow-Under-the-Kosher-Method-Shechitah-Step-6.jpg https://www.wikihow.com/images/thumb/7/73/Properly-Slaughter...

m_mueller 9y ago
There’s reason to believe that Octupus are as conscious or more so than chicken. Certainly among non-mammal seafood they have the most intelligent behavior.
ageofwant 9y ago
You should have a problem with a live octopus being chopped up in front of you. Octopi are some of the most intelligent creatures around. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc.... They are undoubtedly delicious too, just like cows, and, in some cultures, dogs. It boils down to empathy... the way you acquire empathy is bound to culture and education. Knowing and understanding what a octopus is: a being of high intelligence and skill, sitting here at the bleeding edge of deep time with the other survivors, aught to matter to a emphatic being, like yourself.
fiblye 9y ago
Octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures on earth. Eating or cutting them alive is nothing short of savage, and no better than serving live dog or chimpanzee. I'm all for regulations that end unnecessary animal suffering, especially when the whole purpose of it is to do nothing more than add novelty to a meal. We evolved to eat meat. We didn't evolve to torture our meals.

m_mueller 9y ago

There’s reason to believe that Octupus are as conscious or more so than chicken. Certainly among non-mammal seafood they have the most intelligent behavior.

ageofwant 9y ago

You should have a problem with a live octopus being chopped up in front of you. Octopi are some of the most intelligent creatures around. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-octopus/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-mind-of-an-oc.... They are undoubtedly delicious too, just like cows, and, in some cultures, dogs. It boils down to empathy... the way you acquire empathy is bound to culture and education. Knowing and understanding what a octopus is: a being of high intelligence and skill, sitting here at the bleeding edge of deep time with the other survivors, aught to matter to a emphatic being, like yourself.

fiblye 9y ago

Octopuses are some of the most intelligent creatures on earth. Eating or cutting them alive is nothing short of savage, and no better than serving live dog or chimpanzee. I'm all for regulations that end unnecessary animal suffering, especially when the whole purpose of it is to do nothing more than add novelty to a meal. We evolved to eat meat. We didn't evolve to torture our meals.