Yuwipi Woman
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We already are. Part of the push against abortion is about producing the next generation of worker drones.
Octopus farming is ‘unethical and a threat to the food chain’
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We already are. Part of the push against abortion is about producing the next generation of worker drones.
a_chap
When the world came apart, where were you?
On the R4 reports today, they said Koreans eat octopus, while they are still ALIVE
In the otherwise brilliant 2003 South Korean film Old Boy there's a scene where the main character eats a live octopus.
Me, I always have to skip that scene but if you like that sort of thing here it is:
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Octopus joins lobsters and squid on my list of things never to be eaten again (& I’m working on the rest). Mrs SFM - a far more carnivorous person than I and resistant to any moves towards vegetarianism - has joined me in this so I consider this a breakthrough.
StoneRoad
heckling from the back!
In my case, please add ... Nor any sort of shellfish, including crabs and the smaller "filter feeding" shellfish.
The list of stuff I will never eat is definitely getting longer ...
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
There hasn't been afaik an end of days novel featuring vengeful octopi but I fear that creating universities of octopus learning may lead to just that eventuality. Esp if anyone ever shows them spartacus
ska invita
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Round here they end up yellow stickered.
www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
'Baby' octopus on sale at Morrisons for 36p sparks emotional debate
Charity worker and vegan Justin Webb, 46, was horrified when he spotted four octopuses in the reduced to clear section of the store
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I don't eat squid or octopus
, lobster is lovely though.It was one of the highlights of visiting my SIL on Islay, a nephew worked on a lobster boat, and SIL would get the ones with one or no claws. Delicious. Even more delicious when you think what a whole lobster costs in a restaurant.
ska invita
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weird story - how is it any less depressing than any other animal sold for food?Round here they end up yellow stickered.
'Baby' octopus on sale at Morrisons for 36p sparks emotional debate
Charity worker and vegan Justin Webb, 46, was horrified when he spotted four octopuses in the reduced to clear section of the store
maybe because its sold whole
i think a full dead chicken with head and feet would probably look equally tragic
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
Prawns
Mussels
Clams
Whelks (Mrs Sas only for these)
Oysters
Crabs
Lobsters
The above are all delicious and nutritious, and have been part of the human diet for millennia.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Racism? or speciesist?
To be honest, I'm not against eating animals because they're intelligent. If you're going to use animal suffering as a line in the sand, then any species that can feel pain should be on your forbidden list. I might think that any species that can feel pain, but isn't intelligent enough to understand why that pain is happening, should perhaps be higher on the list.
Personally, I didn't stop eating meat because of animal welfare issues. I've been out in nature enough to know that the natural world is built on suffering. I grew up hunting and I've personally been responsible for some of it. I stopped because my own health is better when i don't eat meat, and I don't want to add any more to climate change than I already do. If, as a side effect of not eating meat, there is less animal suffering, then I'm happy with that too.
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Sasaferrato
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weird story - how is it any less depressing than any other animal sold for food?
maybe because its sold whole
i think a full dead chicken with head and feet would probably look equally tragic
We don't have a butcher here, but I remember the geese and pheasants hanging outside the butcher's shop in Fort William when I were a lad, later I used to sell him rabbits.
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I thought it was an odd comment too, but then, this is Urban.
(I don't eat pork, but do eat bacon occasionally.)
ska invita
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still see that now in some home counties butchers
Sasaferrato
Super Refuser!
I wish I lived near a pheasant shoot, pheasant is lovely, and cheap.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
It's rearing it's head again
The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead?
The world’s first commercial octopus farm is closer to becoming reality - but scientists are up in arms.www.bbc.co.uk
"Scientists are up in arms": never let an animal welfare pun pass you by.
klang
klang
horrible places. Most of them get shot and dumped.
seeformiles
Lost in the wood
Crab and shellfish are on my no-eat list as well. The notion of eating an entire mussel has always caused me a bit of a mental block - since, all thoughts of consuming their digestive tract aside, there’s always a risk of a poorly prepared gritty specimen making it on to the plate. I still make them for Mrs SFM occasionally but ensure they’ve cleaned themselves out in a bucket of water for at least two days before. The only seafood thing that makes it through is the occasional prawn. I never liked cooking lobster when I worked in catering, The head chef (unlike many of his peers at the time) believed in dispatching them quickly just before they went in the pot. None of that boiling alive stuff that’s particularly distasteful.
ska invita
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sometimes it turns out nice
Dick Cheney has yet to apologize to the man he shot in the face
“He never did need to apologize. It was an accident,” Harry Whittington said.
thehill.com
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Books, not bombs
See above. An octopus is a very intelligent being, much more so than many other animals. It will probably be fed a crap diet and be kept in appaling conditions. Conditions which are alien to it.weird story - how is it any less depressing than any other animal sold for food?
maybe because its sold whole
i think a full dead chicken with head and feet would probably look equally tragic
klang
klang
a bit like cows and pigs?
ska invita
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much more so than a pig or a cow? how much more or less value does its life have?
hash tag
Books, not bombs
Probably. Depends. An octopus is far more intelligent. Depends how pig or cow are "farmed". Roaming in a field is not so bad. The treatment they get on the huge farms in America is appealing. This is also why I mention battery chickens.
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
Sasaferrato
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Appalling?
Not true at all. It's happened a few times for various reasons but it's not general practice, as the antis would have you believe, at all. They basically picked up on a couple of unfortunate situations and told everyone it happens all the time.
I think it;s one of the most boring meats there is, and barely worth the work you have to put in to them. Same with wild duck. Not worth bothering with (in the UK). Practically fuck all meat on them..
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