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In South Korea, the creatures are sometimes eaten alive What the hell. Have we become so cruel to eat animals alive? This just ruined my day.
by akudha 5y ago
In South Korea, the creatures are sometimes eaten alive
What the hell. Have we become so cruel to eat animals alive? This just ruined my day.
- sweetheart 5y agoIs eating an animal alive really any worse than hammering it to death? Or painfully killing it with carbon dioxide gas? Or swinging it into the concrete floor by the legs? These are things that are done millions and millions of times a year around the entire world. Let’s not pretend only the people that chew animals while they’re alive are reprehensible.
- bboozzoo 5y agoHow is this even a surprise?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoEver had oysters? I understand you think that your day is ruined but my day is ruined by the underlying racism.
- akudha 5y agoWhat racism? I have never eaten meat in my life, I have no idea if oysters are eaten alive or whatever. I'd react exactly the same about anyone who eats animals alive, whatever their skin color. There is nothing racist about my comment. Please don't imagine or project.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoI apologize for the projection. To help you understand how it came about: It would have seemed less racist if you had specified that your day was ruined by the discovery of people eating animals alive - exactly as you have in your follow up. Without it, the sentence is ambiguous as to whether your day was ruined by the particular country’s people, their practice, or any eating of animals. The English language isn’t as precise as I would like it to be so again I apologize. Follow up question: How do you feel about your distant ancestral blood relatives eating animals alive?
- unmole 5y ago> What the hell. Have we become so cruel to eat animals alive? This just ruined my day. The comment was clear about what they found upsetting. The only racism is whatever you have imagined.
- akudha 5y agoNo worries. Sorry if I reacted strongly. I don’t feel anything about my ancestors. It just feels icky that there are people today, who enjoy chewing animals that are alive. This is not Stone Age and we are not Komodo dragons or pythons. I am against eating meat in general, but that is a topic on its own. There was another discussion here recently about boiling lobsters. That sounded horrific too. What is the point of inflicting this level of cruelty?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoYou reacted appropriately, I reacted strongly. Apologies again! I am thoroughly enjoying this conversation though. One point of rationalization I have been able to articulate is that I find it just as icky to chew plants that are alive (or boiled) as I find it to chew animals/insects that are alive (or boiled). So all else equal I will eat what is tastier to me. Besides ethics, a good reason to inflict a quick death is because a slow death may change the taste of the meat. The point of inflicting that level of cruelty is to cook the meat and make it fit for human consumption. Stabbing it with a knife properly prior to boiling is just as cruel to the lobster because it ends its life. The cruelty is the loss of life, arguing about the cruelty of the method of taking the life is really splitting hairs. Those that don’t condone this level of cruelty and don’t partake are commendable. Those that acknowledge the cruelty and thank the dead animal for its contribution and take steps to not waste any part of the dead animal are also commendable.
- akudha 5y agoarguing about the cruelty of the method of taking the life is really splitting hairs If you were to be killed, would you rather take cyanide for a quick death or be boiled alive? One can be humane even when taking a life. The fact that we humans value our taste buds more than the suffering of the animals we kill for food, shows how cruel we are. There is absolutely no reason for us to be this cruel, in my opinion.