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Restaurants Are Under Fire for Serving Live Animals to Customers
Following the release of a gruesome investigation, animal advocates are working to get live animals off menus at restaurants in California and New York.
This week, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) released graphic footageof what happens to live octopuses whose limbs are severed and served to customers for a Korean dish called “sannakji.”
“[T]he
octopus, which you’ve been chopping to pieces, is feeling pain
every time you do it. It’s just as painful as if it were a hog, a
fish, or a rabbit, if you chopped a rabbit’s leg off piece by
piece. So it’s a barbaric thing to do to the animal,” said
cephalopod expert Dr. Jennifer Mather.
Worse is that the cruelty at restaurants in New York and Los Angeles wasn’t limited to the amazing multi-limbed cephalopods.
Lobsters and
shrimp were also prepared for diners by having their tails cut off
and plated next to their still-living bodies, or having their
exoskeletons torn off so diners can bite right into them. According
to PETA,”Some
restaurants steam octopuses, lobsters, and other animals alive in
‘live seafood’ hot pots. Raucous and giggling restaurant-goers
often poke at the struggling animals, and some are ‘tasked’ with
preventing them from escaping.”
Warning:
Graphic Footage
It’s
astonishing and disturbing to think that anyone would partake in
this, or celebrate chefs attempting to normalize such extreme acts of
violence and cruelty towards other beings. It’s been well
established that cephalopods are sensitive, curious and highly
intelligent creatures.
Decapods, or crustaceans,
including lobsters and shrimp, have also long been known to be
capable of feeling pain. Whether we understand exactly how they think
or feel is beside the point when it comes to questioning how other
sentient beings should be treated.
Unfortunately,
animals intended for human consumption aren’t covered under general
animal cruelty laws, and it’s perfectly legal for restaurants to
keep live seafood.
PETA
hopes exposing this will help get people to pressure
lawmakers to
ban serving live animals in New York and California. At least
if it’s illegal, anyone caught doing this can potentially be held
accountable, but hopefully the awareness raised by this investigation
will encourage more people to include animals who become seafood into
their circle of compassion. They might not be as cute and furry as
other animals we advocate for, but they’re no
less deserving of
our consideration or protection.
For
more on why we should be celebrating marine life and leaving seafood
off our plates, check out Fish
Feel.
Photo
credit: Thinkstock
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Bij dit bericht ook een petitie, met de tekst:
REMOVE LIVE OCTOPUS OFF OF RESTAURANT MENUS
Jammer genoeg is de petitie bedoeld voor de VS. De hoogste tijd, dat ook dit soort praktijken in Nederland worden gestopt, zo worden hier oesters levend gegeten...... Voorkomen moet worden dat e.e.a. zich ook hier gaat afspelen, immers alles wat in de 'hippe VS' gebeurt, moeten we in Nederland na-apen........... Hier een link naar Quest met nog wat voorbeelden.Hier de link naar het originele bericht, mocht u VS burger zijn, of er één kennen.
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