I’ll go ahead and express PETA’s disapproval for them
Everyone prefers to eat fresh food, and most people need some sort of assurance that their food isn’t rotten before they’ll eat it. (My personal threshhold is making sure it’s mostly mold- and maggot-free.)
A Taiwanese chef is “under fire” for going the extra mile to demonstrate he uses only the freshest ingredients. The chef served a delicacy known as “yin yang fish”: a deep-fried fish that’s served with its head still twitching.
Deep frying conscious animals…yeah, that’s no good. Definitely smacks of a lack of compassion. Restaurants and chefs should be zealous to demonstrate the quality of their food, but they don’t need to serve their food with an extra dash of torture. As long as they can honestly say they don’t purchase their seafood from a roadside vendor, they’re probably on the right track.
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oh please. have you ever *been* to chinatown in Houston? you know those huge fishtanks they have at the chinese grocery? you choose a fish and they whap it on the head with a stick then cut it up while you watch. now that’s some fish twitching. not for young children. although caught glimpses a few times as a kid.
Comment by annie | 10 July 2007
Never saw them cutting up the fish. I’ll make it a point to check it out.
As long as they’re going for a coup de grace, it’s not a big thing. But if they were cutting them up and making sure they were still alive afterwards, that would be pretty foul.
Comment by Donnie Briggs | 10 July 2007
Hm. Seems roughly like boiling just the bottom half of a lobster. Cruelty aside, not sure I wanna eat that.
Comment by Derek Slater | 12 July 2007