I just had a disturbing thought... what if the octopus crawls it's way out of you mouth? What if it's suckers stick to the inside of your esophagus and you choke to death?Sure, why not? They exist to feed me.
I'd be troubled to eat live octopi, a delicacy in South Korea. Even I find it morally troubling to eat something that still lives. At least kill it before you eat it. Seems like the merciful thing to do.
This actually happens. The Octopi in its dying moments will choke its victims by clinging to and choking the interior walls of the throat. It doesn't happen often, but it happens. It's metal as fuck.I just had a disturbing thought... what if the octopus crawls it's way out of you mouth? What if it's suckers stick to the inside of your esophagus and you choke to death?
What's even the point in eating something while it's living? o.O
Right... and since sushi is normally raw then it not being cooked wouldn't even matter...The fresher the better, right?
South Koreans boil dogs alive out of the belief that adrenaline will soak into the muscles and make it taste better. North Americans boil lobsters and crabs alive until they die either of oxygen deprivation or massive internal organ failure. Japanese still hunt whales with harpoons and gleefully trap entire packs of dolphins into coves for the express purpose of gutting them alive and letting them drown in their own blood. Leather producers in India will nail gun shackles to cattle and prod them into delivery trucks where more than half of them will suffer extensive injuries, including but not limited to: Broken legs, internal bleeding, ripped open tissue, cannibalism-related injuries, and of course death. Don't even get me started on circus animals.It just seems disturbing though, eating something alive.
And not even out of necessity but out of enjoyable preference.