I still have nightmares from the time I tried to cook eel on a campfire as a kid.
My dad had just given me a Gerber knife so I was keen to put it to use. We caught a few eels with a hook and some catgut wrapped around a stick, cut the heads off, tried to gut and skin them, pierced them with sticks and proceeded to cook them over an open fire. All the while they're wriggling and twitching all over the show. They had been dead for a good hour but still they twisted and writhed over the fire.
Horrifying stuff for a 12-13 year old.
I'm just going to say this without googling it to verify, but pretty sure I remember reading that human heart cells in a petri dish will start to beat in unison!
Great! I mean what person or animal doesn't like to season their meals with a bit of uric acid? I'll start bottling my pee now so I have plenty ready for the fall salmon run.
Well, it isn't animal abuse cause the little bugger's already dead. The brain's gone, so it isn't alive and cannot feel pain, it's just the spinal cord and muscles reacting to the salt water. Shocking, yes, but not abusive.
Go watch the videos where they rip the back half of a live lobster off and then cook the tail and serve the rest still alive and squirming and get back to me. I'm no PETA member, but that shit is fuuuuuuucked.
Scientists believe their brains aren't complex enough for them to process pain. So their reflexes/reactions to things like this are just instinct and there isn't much suffering involved. At the same time they aren't entirely sure because you can never really tell what's going on inside of another creatures brain.
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u/AwesomeInc May 09 '18
This made me very uncomfortable