Restaurant serves half fried fish - head still alive...body cooked!, page 4

reply to post by tamusan

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Anytime buddy!

reply to post by av8r007

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Thankfully as another poster pointed out the local government is going to attempt to have this menu item removed (though this is the far East and doubtful the government there really gives a hoot) and let's hope it is true. Eat meat my friends, eat meat. I love it and would never give meat up, but when I go hunting or fishing I don't needlessly put the animals in pain. It is my duty to see that they throw off their mortal coil in the most painless way possible.

Are you serious? You judge how other people treat animals even though you kill for 'sport'? (fun)

Could you explain to me what the difference is between wanting to eat your meat as fresh as possible (killing for food) and killing for fun? Although it might seem cruel to you to serve a live fish, at least the purpose of the whole scene is to feed someone.

I don't eat meat and don't approve of any of this personally but you really should try to see things from a broader perspective.

It's hypocritical to think that hunting is more 'humane' than the scene in the restaurant. You either value and respect life or you don't.

reply to post by okamitengu

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What can you say to educate us about china?
I can show you something about the mentality towards animals there.
HIS FLAYED BODY IS TOSSED INTO A PILE, HE RAISES HIS HEAD AND LOOKS AT HIS BODY BEFORE HE BECOMES STILL.
THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING IN A SHANGCUN MARKET IN CHINA.
Watch at your own risk-extremely graphic!!!!!
www.peta.org...
I will never agree with Japan, China, or any other freakin' messed up place in the world that treats animals with no respect.
Not speaking to you directly, but to all those others out there that make it a sport or just don't care. All of you can start your own torture clan in Hell.

English speaking person eating live fish at what appears to be popular American pet store chain

What do you guys think of that? I am not certain if he is actually eating fish, can't really see them.

I am an American, and I will be the first to say that many Americans are very cruel and unusual to animals and each other. Just as many Chinese would be mortified at the cooking of a live fish as we are.

reply to post by sickofitall2012

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You make it appear as if all Chinese are brutal to animals. This is not the case. I am 50% Chinese and I don't eat any meat at all, same as the majority of my family. In my family animals are treated with the same respect as humans are, I doubt many people here can say the same.

That said I respect everyone's way of life, whether or not I agree with what they do or not. It's up to them, getting angry about it is not going to change anything. Judging them is also not going to help anyone, especially since we don't do much better in the West. I have a choice not to participate, just as others have their choice. If they want to eat live animals, who are we to tell them it's wrong?

Here in the West we also treat animals badly. Have you ever visited a pigfarm or seen how the chicken are 'housed' where we get our eggs from? It is equally brutal as far as I'm concerned.

The way they eventually die doesn't change the fact that they have led miserable lives. Anyone who eats meat is equally guilty of animal brutality as far as I'm concerned. Just because you are not the one to make the kill doesn't make it more humane.

It's fine if you are against animal brutality, I am against it as well. But saying that China and Japan are messed up places because you see and hear bad things about them really doesn't mean that everyone in those countries participates. According to your logic ALL the World is messed up because sadly both human and animal brutality are common around the globe.

reply to post by Mokoman

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I am 50% Chinese and I don't eat any meat at all, same as the majority of my family.

I know many Chinese who eat no meat at all. Have a star!

[edit on 18-11-2009 by tamusan]

reply to post by Mokoman

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Great post.
Star for you.

reply to post by badgerprints

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No matter what your background or your beliefs, is it necessary to make sure something suffers longer than it needs to?

Longer than it needs to? What do you recon would be an acceptable amount of suffering? And what would make your 'norm' more acceptable than another?

Are you saying here that suffering is alright, as long as we keep it to a minimum?

There is no need for any animal to suffer on our account, we only make them suffer to indulge ourselves. There is no need for any of it.

reply to post by Mokoman

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do you think plant really want to be eaten? or that they just evolved to deal with it? You can sit and mumble about the respect for life and never eating any meat, but even going and having a carrot is just as disrespectfull to all life LOL. Carrots dont want to be eaten.... no plant wants some *snip* to rip it from teh ground and grind its body up with teeth. So just go *snip* die.

still making something needlessly suffer is very bad and i do not condone it... although we all got to eat.


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