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What's the alternative to killing by freezing? Stabbing their brains?
by the_gipsy 4y ago
What's the alternative to killing by freezing? Stabbing their brains?
- pvaldes 4y agoOr being hit to death against a hard surface. But this part, required to tender the meat, can be done also after the octopus is killed.
- the_gipsy 4y agoI mean what's a more humane alternative.
- tyingq 4y agoApparently you can anesthetize them with ethanol first, though I don't know how well that would scale. https://www.science.org/content/article/how-put-octopus-sleep-and-make-cephalopod-research-more-humane https://www.science.org/content/article/how-put-octopus-slee...
- kerpotgh 4y ago[dead]
- pvaldes 4y agoWe shouldn't confuse killing an animal for research, and killing it for human food. We don't embalm cows before eating them. Killing your seafood with ethanol, and therefore making it poisonous, would be extremely dumb.
- tyingq 4y agoThey use a 1 to 3 percent strength ethanol solution. Also, when you say "poisonous" are you maybe thinking methanol? There's, uh, already pretty big business around getting people to ingest ethanol.
- pvaldes 4y agoIt does not matter. That procedure is a solution for a totally different type of problem. Keeping a sample of an animal in a jar in a museum for 20 years so you can do scientific research on it. The more toxic, the less attacked by bacteria or animals Ethanol has one and only one purpose, and is critical. To avoid the body contracting while dying. This aspect is totally useless in the kitchen.