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Rare one-in-30M orange lobster rescued from grocery store tank
- DoubleDerper 5y agoBoiling Lobsters alive is cruel and should be entirely banned.
- aoms 5y agoI completely agree
- goldenkey 5y agoIndeed, in Japan they drive a knife into the brainstem [2]. Why is Japan so progressive? Their medical products, their audio equipment, their food, I mean...pretty much everything I've ever purchased from Japan is on another level of care, consideration, design, and quality. It's like..they understand something that most of the world doesn't. Japan loves cats and sells products for cats that no other country produces. Even their moving companies have special boxes... I've never seen anything like that in America [1] [1] https://youtu.be/ynEjnebw8LA https://youtu.be/ynEjnebw8LA [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikejime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikejime
- snypher 5y agoNothing more progressive than driving a knife into a brainstem.
- goldenkey 5y agoThey also ice bath the lobster/ fish first to numb it. I see the sardonic humor though :-)
- alephu5 5y agoWould it be progressive to stop eating animals?
- nefitty 5y agoWhat? Yes. Killing sentient beings is objectively wrong.
- macinjosh 5y agoThe food chain is immoral. Got it.
- uDontKnowMe 5y agoThe food chain is an abstraction that describes the natural world, not a moral agent any more than the water cycle is. Wild animals predate in the wild, yes, but they aren't moral agents. Humans are able to reason about our own actions and more importantly we can live and indeed thrive on a plant-based diet. So since there are ways to get our food other than killing other thinking, feeling, suffering individuals, we aren't forced to do so. We just choose to inflict incomprehensible amounts of suffering on animals not out of necessity but because we like the taste of cow milk slightly more than we like the taste of oat milk, or we love the way their flesh tastes, and would rather eat it than cook a plant-based meal. We inflict billions of lifetimes of misery and torture on creatures with their own desires and will to live, who feel suffering and pain just as much as we do, in service of an utterly unnecessary and trivial benefit, that while we could live incredibly well, even healthier and with less impact on the environment on a plant-based diet, we like the taste of their flesh and excretions too much to choose oat milk and tofu at the grocery store. Yes it is wrong! Future generations will look back at our time as with disbelief that we behave like this.
- c22 5y agoYou're just moving your consumption farther from your leaf of the tree of life--which is totally fine, even most meat-eaters will balk at cannibalism. But what makes you so certain plants are unfeeling and can't experience pain? I observe plants attempting to avoid and heal from damage, so I assume they do have some analogue experiences around feelings of suffering.
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- tpmx 5y agoNoone mention the dolphins and the whales...
- goldenkey 5y agoThat too is a travesty. And apparently they have a fringe practice of eating animals alive but as far as I understand it, much of this is only furthered by older folks in Japan. The same thing in Korea is happening - older folks ok with eating dog while younger folks have them as pets. I suppose my initial statement was not entirely factual. Japan, get with it!
- rozab 5y agoCan't tell if this is sarcasm or not but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri
- goldenkey 5y agoI suppose my initial statement was not entirely factual. Japan, get with it!
- f6v 5y agoDon’t some people eat sea creatures alive there?
- goldenkey 5y agoYes, apparently it is not very common but a bunch of Asian countries practice this barbarism. https://uminchuproject.tumblr.com/post/52861612151/ikizukuri-live-sashimi https://uminchuproject.tumblr.com/post/52861612151/ikizukuri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri :-(
- huuuz 5y agoAre you coming to my home to tell me what I can do to my seafood?
- Asraelite 5y agoI agree 100% but this is a terrible comment. It's mostly irrelevant, contributes no information, and is just stating a popular opinion.
- MikeDelta 5y agoAmazing, a genetic mutation that made it orange. Translucent also exists. Apparently, being different was enough for the others to pick on him. Where have we seen this before?