Originally posted by vox2442

Originally posted by okamitengu


i just watched the video too, they are speaking mandarin chinese or cantonese!

no japanese at all.

good spotting. i didnt even watch the vid when i commented. (: looking at it, it was obviously not served in a japanese manner..

Probably doesn't matter. People want to believe that its Japanese.

Japanese people have no souls, doncha know?

I dont want to believe any nationality would do this...

Thanks to those who pointed out the origin issue..

I have only a smattering of vietnamese - swearwords!

Japan is a horrible country.

So is China.

I didn't watch that vid because I would have cried my eyes out.

OMG, America, watch out for China.

Originally posted by okamitengu
how is it different from eating a live whitchety grub, or any other live food consumed throughout the world.

funny how because the japanese do it, that its wrong.

alive or dead, food is food. you need to stop anthropomorhising it, and just eat.

if it gets eaten, it doesnt matter how it dies. its dead. NOW .. if they just fried it and hurled it out the back, that would be a crime. but its prey. prey gets eaten. end of story. do you think the fish cares if its deep fried and eaten, or stabbed and sliced into a billion wafer thin pieces, or steamed ina can?

crikey other animals TEAR thier prey limb from limb to eat it. dont hear you complaining we should stop lions from eating gazelles. thats cruel!

ps, whale is delicious. screw those lazy giant cows of the sea!! if they dont want to be eaten, let them tell us!

Hey genius! I think the phrase "unnecessary infliction of pain" may come into play here. Look up the big words.

PS - You are not funny, just come across as heartless and thick

PPS - Yes whale IS delicious, as is horse, but some of us make the moral choice to abstain for the greater good. Perhaps it is something you should look into. Overweight by any chance?

PPPS - MODS: Some things need saying. Ease up on the thought police censorship huh.

And thanks for the responses guys - believe me, I question my own attitudes to aspects of the planet more when I am faced with this kind of stuff, than I do yours.

It's good to see such varied opinions on this. Eye-opening...


[edit on 18-11-2009 by chillpill]

Originally posted by spellbound
Japan is a horrible country.

So is China.

I didn't watch that vid because I would have cried my eyes out.

OMG, America, watch out for China.

so you have visited both of the countries for more than an brief holiday to base your opinion on?

or you just watch tv and read books and base your opinion on other peoples opinions!

Originally posted by chillpill
Ladies and Gents...

This is footage from a restaurant in Japan. This absolutely disgusted me.

NOT JAPANESE!!!!

Chinese or Taiwanese. Penis anyone?

Originally posted by virricocha

Hey genius! I think the phrase "unnecessary infliction of pain" may come into play here. Look up the big words.

PS - You are not funny, just come across as heartless and thick

PPS - Yes whale IS delicious, as is horse, but some of us make the moral choice to abstain for the greater good. Perhaps it is something you should look into. Overweight by any chance?

PPPS - MODS: Some things need saying. Ease up on the thought police censorship huh.

ahh this is what i was expecting. let me redress some of your greivences.

A: personally i wouldnt eat this fish. however i wouldnt think to tell anyone else how to do things. its not my place to demand any behavious from anyone else, or any other culture.

B: i am funny, (: you might not think so, but others do, therefore funny is a point of view. name calling does nothing to get your point across. i may be heartkess tho, i dont believe in morality. in nature there are no morals. only survival. but thats such a paradigm shift for most people i doubt soeone who has a moral high horse, such as yourself, woud ever understand.

C: there is no greater good. in my opinion. i have yet to try horse, it is a delicacy here in nagano. i look forward to trying it. i make it my goal in life to try and eat some of every game available. australia is a great place for eating game. japan also. thats just my choice. i would never expect ANYONE to change thier ways to suit me. thats the real problem with the world. everyone else thinks THEY KNOW BETTER.

now i appreciate you disagree with me, as is your right to do so. however next time, try to do so with just a little more decorum. name calling and fat jokes, how year 6!

There is just something not right about eating it while its still alive.
PS. What the heck is that pic of in your avatar?

[edit on 18-11-2009 by calstorm]

IRRESPECTIVE OF THE COUNTRY, this is disgusting.
But people who get upset at this ought also to get upset at the lifelong cruelty of battery farms for chickens. If there is such a thing as reincarnation, then people ought to come back as the animal they tortured.

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I remember watching a sick video of a monkey being killed then eaten on a movie called "Faces of death" so anything is possible,I wonder what they use for silverware,fishing pole and a tackle box?

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As far as I know, fish dont feel pain and have no distress receptors.

Also when fish are caught they are packed tight in the fishing net and then suffocate on the boat eventually to be knifed up the stomach. lol I dont see how this is distressing, its a fish. We eat fish. Other fish eat fish live every day.

Go worry about more pressing matters, like the live skinning of animals for coats. THOSE animals feel pain and stress.

EDIT: Researched pain in fish a bit a nd it seems to be a "sitting on the fence" subject. Some researchers say yes they feel pain, others say no its just reflex.

So I am not sure.

[edit on 18-11-2009 by qwiksilva]

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pretty sure that the language in that video is chinese or at least not japanese so pretty sure that they got it wrong.

Food is food. Sometimes we are even food. A lion that has just caught a yummi Kenyan Maasai warrior (yes, that still happens today) doesn't cook his food. The lion probably doesn't even think about killing it completely before taking a big bite out of hips or tender loin. But aren't we lucky to be on top of the food chain in most parts of this planet? And let others, like butchers kill our food for us and wrap it up in nice white trays wrapped with see through wrapping. Even the price tag looks sometimes very decorative.
Now what makes this video so disgusting has many reasons. I watched it twice. Once with and once without sound. But yes, either way, this poor fish has facial expression. And yes, it's quite big too. Just watching the video, I can't tell if it is a japanese restaurant. It's also not japanes they speak. Sounds chinese to me. The laughter also adds to the horror effect. I assume he is not laughing about the demise of his food, laughter at times like these expresses ones shock or surprise of the moment. I admit that I have eaten food that wasn't completely dead. To what extent my food was aware of being eaten by me, I don't know. But I guess that's nature that eating or being eaten is not a mutual enjoyment.
Of course I would not be very happy to be eaten alive myself. Dipped in deep fry oil and trying to communicate my last thoughts before you all poke with chopsticks into me. So there comes my last conclusion that the facial expression is just the nerves and the fish is actually dead. Well, I hope so for the fish.

[edit on 18-11-2009 by ashamedtobehuman]

I dont like seeing any living thing in pain so that is disgusting to me, the fact it is half cooked iin oil it would have been in agony, I hope the karma is returned to the chef and anyone else involved in this.

Yet another reason to go vedgy. As for the auzzie dude, for someone who doesnt believe in morality you certainly do according to your last post. Typical auzzie fella attitude, no wonder auzzie women cannot stand you and look abroard. And before you cry fowl, dont blame the messenger because its true as my fiancee will tell you, and she is a kickass country queeenslander