From Gothamist:
PETA is now focusing their gaze on the city's octopus community... which some find quite delicious! The organization's David Perle tells us they're addressing disturbing practices they've found in Manhattan and Queens restaurants, and aim to stop the "chopping up or slowly steaming live octopuses and serving them while they're still conscious."
They've penned some letters to the district attorneys of each jurisdiction, pointing out that octopuses can feel pain and the restaurants' practices violate the state's anti-cruelty statute. Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman noted that in some of these establishments, "the chef uses scissors to cut off an octopus's tentacles and then serves them on a dish—the octopus's heart keeps beating as the animal writhes and slowly die." In this National Geographic video, some take it a step further:
I seem to recall bringing attention to this barbaric practice some time ago and being told that I was racist for doing so. Where the hell was PETA back then? Oh well, better late than never.
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It is cruel and proper for people to complain about this disturbing trend. Cephalopods especially Octopus have shown to have remarkable intelligence and has been conclusively shown to use tools. I am always amazed that there is no level to which humanity will stoop to inflict pain and suffering on themselves and/or any other living creature.
There was a program on the Discovery Channel just the other night about the high intelligence of this magnificant creatures.
This is very sad.
B-R-R-R-A-A-A-A-A-A-C-C-H-H!
Please be careful and don't step on my vomit. It may be tomorrow's main course!
Like the Hasids vs Tower People and bike lanes, now we have Yuppie Sensibilities vs East Asian Diet.
my my my
'Honest Joe' Crowley has a world of choices. Might even have to come up from his home in Washington to broker a settlement.
My vote is for the Hasids (campaign donations) and Asians (votes).
Get those quality of life white folks out of here! They vote Republican in any case.
i like my meat, but this is awful. hell, lions KILL their prey before chowing down.
Like the Hasids vs Tower People and bike lanes, now we have Yuppie Sensibilities vs East Asian Diet.
Sniff! Sniff! Asshole troll!
PETA - I love ya!
Don't be too sympathetic to PETA. They are also the ignorami who annoyed Fishkill about their name because they thought it had something to do with killing fish.
They are also known to interfere with Park's employees attempts to protect birds like Piping Plovers and Terns--they much prefer feeding feral cats to protecting near-extinct shorebirds.
They also got crazy when Tea town Reservation tried to reserve a 2-acre plot to protect endangered plants--after all, the deer had to be there too, the other several thousand acres wasn't enough for them.
Don't support ignorant nuts.
Some studies show plants have the ability to feel too. Should we all stop stepping on grass now? Maybe we should all stop eating lobsters too? They cook them the same way - a slow steam to death, you just don't see it.
These people are so disgusting. fucking ugly nasty people
Anonymous: "Some studies show plants have the ability to feel too. Should we all stop stepping on grass now? Maybe we should all stop eating lobsters too? They cook them the same way - a slow steam to death, you just don't see it."
what stupidity this is.
The idiots in the post are chopping away at the octopus while it's LOOKING AT THEM! The cuts and slashes do NOT KILL IT!
I personally don't eat lobster - never did - the way it's cooked is too gross for me - but, it does freakin' DIE!
Octopus - as stated prior appears to have a higher level of intellect - most definitely more that sh*theads that are eating it - that's for sure.
YES - OUTLAW this NOW! Bring IT ON PETA!
Anonymous: "Don't support ignorant nuts."
PETA has done perhaps MORE good than any other animal rights organizations - they were also the forerunners of many MAJOR wildlife conservation efforts in the U.S. Do they attract some of those who are on the edge? Absolutely - but so does the Republican Party, and most of you on here support them.
PETA supporters attacked and terrorized a brain-injured friend of my sister's who had received a fur coat from her parents.
They have consistently demonstrated both ignorance, intolerance and Fascism.
So far as conservation is concerned, Teddy Roosevelt, the big game hunter, established the first national parks and did more to save animals than all of PETA combined.
They are known to torture the ASPCA and many other better informed animal groups.
I stand by my assessment, as nutty as a pecan grove.
Should we all stop stepping on grass now? Maybe we should all stop eating lobsters too? They cook them the same way - a slow steam to death, you just don't see it.
Hey! Eat me!
Poor octopuss! Beautiful animals they are!
"They have consistently demonstrated both ignorance, intolerance and Fascism."
come now, not ALL Republicans are the same.
Anway - what happened to your friend's sister must have happened many years ago - I don't think they do that any more. First of all, people don't wear fur coats like they used to - they are considered tacky by the young and hip or by the old and hip. With celebrity backers like Pam Anderson, Roger Daltry, Paul and Stella McCartney, Emmy Lou Harris, etc. etc. - they are not going to go away anytime soon thankfully.
I love Teddy Roosevelt - I love ALL the Roosevelts actually. Teddy Roosevelt hunted BUFFALO on Long Island - there are only two-legged ones left there now.
I like octopussy!
I hope everyone complaining about this is a vegan because there is no relevant difference between killing an animal in your mouth or in a disgusting slaughterhouse in North Carolina. I bet PETA would agree.
Actually, there is a difference.
People generally don't eat an animal while it is still breathing.
I'm still waiting for PETA to issue a statement about Bloomberg ordering the gassing of geese.
"Do they attract some of those who are on the edge? Absolutely - but so does the Republican Party, and most of you on here support them."
You do realize that the biggest criticizers of the corrupt Dems in this City and State are other Dems, right? How does this translate in your mind into "support" of the Republican party? Any staunch partisan is bound to be shady.
"Actually, there is a difference.
People generally don't eat an animal while it is still breathing."
I understand there is a difference. My point is that difference is irrelevant. It may be better to meet a quick death in someone's mouth than a tortured existance then an inhumane death in a slaughter house. PETA has shown that intelligent animals, such as pigs, are generally killed in a very inhumane way. Yet we all enjoy eating our bacon and ham.
People will generally eat meat as long as they don't know about the suffering of the animal that produced the meat. Octopus are eaten alive in the wild also. At least the people eating octopuses alive know they are eating an animal. Do most people think of how animals are treated when they eat a hamburger?
The point is that they are not meeting a quick death in someone's mouth. To quote what I posted, "the chef uses scissors to cut off an octopus's tentacles and then serves them on a dish—the octopus's heart keeps beating as the animal writhes and slowly die."
Definitely not for the squeamish but on topic. One word of caution. Do NOT watch if you do not like seeing a monkey tortured and its brain eaten:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5237462334704426156#
Certainly takes the civil out of civilization!!!
Not to mention the fact that you assumed that I am a Republican Babs, I'm no such thing.
They are still up to the attacking people in fur coats things too. Fur coats are still popular among African Americans and several of them on my facebook account have complained of harassment.
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