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Originally Posted by Ratman
If you are living in a "Western" country, and you eat any kind of meat, seafood, or poultry, you should seriously consider your definition of animal cruelty before you go poppin' off about how blatantly cruel or sadistic this is.
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I have. I'm not so foolish as to say that a cow enjoys being killed and eaten, but at least it is killed before it is eaten. It is not the usual practice to start butchering the cow until it has been killed, and it is certainly not possible anywhere in the west to go to a restaurant and have an impaled cow kept alive and watching while you eat its flesh. A certain degree of unpleasantness is necessary if we are to eat animals, which we are biologically designed to do. I do understand that. But we should make an effort to limit that unpleasantness by killing the animal before it is butchered or eaten. We certainly should not revel in the animal's painful death throes as we make it watch us eat it.
Also please note that I was careful to specify that such is a Western perspective. It was hoped, though apparently not realized, that readers would recognize that judging another culture on the basis of one's own should be undertaken with the awareness that what is strange, weird, or abhorrent to me is normal to whatever society I am looking at, and therefore value judgments should be taken with a grain of salt.
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1. This is not the standard way of preparing fugu.
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Good.
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2. There are no toxins in the eyes. The only toxic organ is the liver.
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Hmm. According to the New York Times, the tora fugu's organs, with the exception of the testes, are poisonous, particularly as you indicate, the liver, and also the ovaries. But I bow to your expertise.
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Whacking one against the counter would not risk releasing any toxins in this case
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Didn't think it would, but was giving the chef in the video the benefit of the doubt.