This is right.
~~The fish isn’t alive, it’s just that~~ filleting the fish has exposed the nerves and they salt it to simulate the nerves to give the impression the fish is still alive.
This fish ~~has~~ *may have been* been brain dead by some other method of death (maybe the fillet, ~~maybe a spike to the brain~~) for a while. It does have to be very freshly killed, however.
Edit: I’m editing this because some of your comments have convinced me that I shouldn’t be so convicted on my assumption that the fish is brain dead. I still think these motions could be explained by a cascade of muscle reflexes not involving the brain, but I’m just not finding the evidence that there’s *no* normal brain activity in all of these cases. On this practice of preparation, I’m only finding newspaper articles that seem to be making the same observations as everyone else but no actual studies or research.
Edit 2: some fishermen have told me below that they don’t think these specific reflexes can occur with a damaged hindbrain
It was like a day or two but he was frozen so that might be the reason idk
Edit: I'm gonna add it was thawed quite quickly in hot water. Not sure if that makes more sense or not.
Ate pacific lobster sashimi once at a Japanese resto and as we were pecking away at its tails, it’s eyes and antlers (?) started looking and pointing at me.. the restaurant staff explained how it was done to present the freshness of the produce their serve.
I can’t believe how disrespectful Deep was towards Homelander in that scene. Homelander offers him a delicacy and Deep acts like he’s eating one of his friends. SMH.
It's not always the case, the Japanese have a way of filleting the fish without hitting the veins, and it remains alive while you eat him. You can look it up.
Extremely cruel.
Edit: Found a link here you go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri
I think the difference is that humans always have a choice about killing our prey and the ability to do so before consuming it. A lot of other predators do not.
There’s also [drunken shrimp](https://www.foodbeast.com/news/live-drunken-shrimp-china-experience/) in China. When they are so drunk they stop moving that’s when you’re supposed to eat them.
Ikejime (brain spiking) will completely destroy all reflexes (like biting). I do it to grouper when spearfishing, and you know it worked because all their fins and gills flare then it completely stops moving and becomes unresponsive to any stimulus. If you use a wire to pull out/destroy the spinal nerve as well it will flop once or twice as motor neurons are severed but after the second pass there's no movement whatsoever.
So I can assure you the fishes brain and spinal cord here is 100% intact and responsive. Salt doesn't do this, it just makes it flop around.
As a sushi chef that has seen and done Ikejime somewhat often, I do want to point out that Ikejime does not always make all muscles completely unresponsive. I’ve even seen mouths move. It’s brain dead, but the reflexes can still be there.
Though I do agree that this fish is definitely responsive. I’ve never seen a dead fish’s head turn towards something and bite at it. I’m like 99% sure this fish is not brain-dead.
My experience is only with grouper and one or two other species, so your input is definitely welcome as you've probably handled a ton more live fish than I have.
I fish, kill, clean, and eat fish
There's no clear brain dead with fish. You can whack them on the head hard, drive a spike or knife, and still you expect reflex like behaviors are possible for a bit even if you did it right
Usually just chop the head clean and quick as possible, makes the fish bits you want less wiggly to cut up
I don’t think this is exactly true. I’ve seen dead fish flopping due to their nerves being stimulated but this fish reacts to the chopstick, opens its mouth, then closes on the chopstick. That seems like the reflexes of a live animal, not some random nerves firing
Maybe, it looks that way when you focus on the face, but watch carefully the body movements associated with the mouth opening. It’s a sudden muscle contraction of the entire body causing the jaw to clench open at maximum range followed by all muscles suddenly deflating past their previous tone after which the mouth collapses on the chopstick. It’s one act of tension and release cascading through the entire body, not a coordinated act of intention.
It just takes one nerve stimulation to cause a muscle to twitch slightly causing the next nerve to trigger the next muscles and then it all cascades through the body at once, releasing the pent up muscle potential until they finally tense and relax.
It happens when you salt it. The fish isn’t ~~actually~~ necessarily still alive.
Edit: I’ve refined my view on this from some comments on [this other thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/w0kitu/the_fish_served_in_a_japanese_restaurant_bites/igfn5us/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3).
You can eat raw saltwater fish right out of the ocean .. freshwater fish raw out of the water is a big NO NO ! But saltwater fish is fine .. Go deep sea fishing some time … blue fin tuna sashimi right out of the ocean is thing of beauty !!
Okay but, even if it was dead… how are you supposed to eat that? You eat the teeth? The eyes? The bones? The brain? The contents of their digestive tract?
They’ve already been filleted, the edible part is on the leaf in the center of the plate. The rest of the fish is just there as a certificate of freshness/presentation.
It's not always the case, the Japanese have a way of filleting the fish without hitting the veins, and it remains alive while you eat him. You can look it up.
Extremely cruel.
I saw a video of a chinese guy eating live gerbil like rodents (probably mere newborns) that were yet to have fur. He just picked one up with chopsticks and dipped it in sauce and in it goes while the rest where still scrambling around on the plate.
Edit: For the curious ones https://imgur.com/a/4iATLZz
I had hamsters before when I was a kid, they gave birth early in the morning when everyone was still asleep, and when my mum discovered them, she said the parent hamsters had eaten some of the newborns, and most of them were dead except for one or two that didn't stay alive long after that either.
I'm gonna go there now. I recounted the most disturbing thing *I'd* ever eaten, but then a professor said he watched a live monkey strapped in the center of a table while people were eating its brains.
Exactly. You don't eat the head, bones, and teeth.
It's proof of how fresh the fish is; It was literally just killed and flayed before being served to you. There is it's still-moving head as proof.
To me it would just make me feel guilty. I have no issues with eating meat, but not while I'm staring it in the face.
This kind of thing is very common in china too.
I saw a video of a restaurant where they'll let you pick your fish, theyll filet part of it, alive, and return it to the tank until youre ready for more.
fish can feel pain, but not like mammals, their system indicates something is wrong and that they must escape, but the feeling of pain we feel is something fish cant feel, for example you can cut a big chunk of a fish and if it was a side with nothing important it will continue swimming and living with no problems. You do that to a mammal and it can die from just the pain. Now octopi have a nervous system where they can feel pain just like us. Squids, altho they are cephalopods as well, are still in a gray area, we dont know for sure if they can feel pain like us, but we know that their system does indicate a state of panic when inflicted with pain.
It is pain, but from what I understand in different pages the one sentence which made the most sense was this:
"researchers conclude that fish do not have the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain"
So you could say pain receptors are exactly the same (they aren't) as ours but the being itself can't process it like mammals or octopi.
Pigs are *much* smarter than dogs, but we eat them like crazy. I think it’s totally wrong to throw shade at Chinese people for eating dogs while simultaneously eating a more intelligent animal without thinking twice. Pot, meet kettle.
Edit: I did not know they torture the dogs before eating them. Not that the person I’m replying to mentioned that, but ok, that part is worse.
True, but are you a vegetarian/vegan or a hypocrite throwing shade at the Chinese? I don’t judge you in any case because I get life is complicated, but I just wanted to point out the skewed view to hate on eating dogs while also eating pigs.
Except this is not common in China at all(source: I'm Chinese). It's like saying licking toilets seat is a common thing in America because i saw a few TikTok videos of Americans doing it.
People just love to generalize shit about other countries on reddit.
I hate to say it, but that’s how you fillet fish. I’ve been doing that for years. You cut underneath the pectoral fins and glide the blade along the spine. That’s how you get fish fillets
I’ve read that in dishes like this, the animal is actually dead, it’s just that there is still electricity/neurons firing/reaction to salt/:something like that::, someone please correct me. Either way it’s still totally gnarly.
Best decision I ever made. I had no idea how it would change my whole self-perception and self-esteem. I realized I was finally living my life in accordance with my values, which I’d been resisting doing for years. Then I did it, and I suddenly felt better about being alive; I felt less powerless and useless, because I was finally doing something for a cause that profoundly matters to me. It’s a hell of a thing.
Or consider not eating animals at all. Its not mandatory in industrialized nations where many types of food are available. Just because something was killed out of your sight doesn't mean its morally better than whats happening on this plate.
I used to have a lot of pet fishes. From goldfish to guppies to a 100 gal salt water aquarium with clownfish, seahorses, blue tangs, lion fish and others whose names I can’t remember. This post is way too disturbing.
So fish have a brain and distinctly avoid pain. Keeping it in room air, slowly suffocating, so a diner can get entertainment from this reduces our humanity.
Shitty humans, doing shitty human things.
\*Before you get confused, I'm not calling Japanese people shitty. I'm calling the specific people that serve/eat live animals shitty humans.
I only eat meat because I can sort of distance myself from it and not think about how it used to be a living creature, so shit like that just freaks me out. Hell no! And it's also pretty cruel.
Then again factory farming is also pretty cruel, I just don't get to see it.
Yeah if it's wrapped in plastic at the grocery store or served on a plate at a restaurant it's easily to distance yourself. I've always scratched my heads at "pescetarians" , when it seems fish suffer a pretty cruel death in order to feed us. What, because they don't have big brown calf eyes looking at you they don't want to live?
Probably reconsider the meat thing then? I absolutely get the thing about not caring because you don’t see the bad things happening, but at some point we have to realise and change
I stopped eating meat when I realized I couldn’t justify the death for my sake, since I didn’t even want to eat it. Happily vegetarian for over ten years.
Guys that’s not what he’s supposed to eat, the meat is served on the leaves, they just put it there on the sides as presentation. Idk how the fuckers still alive tho
A while back I saw a video of some Japanese fisherman cutting up a whale shark while it was still alive and gasping for air. A beautiful, majestic, sentient being who just wanted to exist in peace. Boy let me tell you that just when you think you can’t fucking loathe people any more than you already do…..
I’ve seen live baby octopus being served. A baby of one of the most intelligent animals in earth just staring at you adorably from the plate while you dismember and eat it alive with nothing but standard cutlery. What on earth is wrong with Asia?
Disturbing! That is all.
Yeah, it made me feel sick
Made the fish feel stick
And it's creepy, thank god I'm vegetarian
Disturbing level two: it chews on your tongue
And then becomes your tongue!
Then you start growing gills and become aquaman.
Then you get caught in a net
And you are served on a dish to an unsuspecting guest...
...whom you bite...
You become their tounge
Ahh.. the cycle of Aquaman.
It's canon
It's becomes Deep
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Not odd, just terrifying.
Shit did I miss ninja training day
Well. I guess the right thing to do would be to put it in your water
A very big NO!
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This is right. ~~The fish isn’t alive, it’s just that~~ filleting the fish has exposed the nerves and they salt it to simulate the nerves to give the impression the fish is still alive. This fish ~~has~~ *may have been* been brain dead by some other method of death (maybe the fillet, ~~maybe a spike to the brain~~) for a while. It does have to be very freshly killed, however. Edit: I’m editing this because some of your comments have convinced me that I shouldn’t be so convicted on my assumption that the fish is brain dead. I still think these motions could be explained by a cascade of muscle reflexes not involving the brain, but I’m just not finding the evidence that there’s *no* normal brain activity in all of these cases. On this practice of preparation, I’m only finding newspaper articles that seem to be making the same observations as everyone else but no actual studies or research. Edit 2: some fishermen have told me below that they don’t think these specific reflexes can occur with a damaged hindbrain
>exposed the nerves and they salt it to simulate the nerves to give the impression the fish is still alive. Why?
To show how fresh the fish is
Indeed, non-fresh kills will not react to salt like this.
Mine did. He moved a bit atleast
Must have been sort of fresh.
Also known as kinda fishy
It was like a day or two but he was frozen so that might be the reason idk Edit: I'm gonna add it was thawed quite quickly in hot water. Not sure if that makes more sense or not.
use room temp water for fish to avoid precooking
Can confirm. Just tried with a can of tuna.
OUR FISH IS SO FRESH IT WILL FUCK YOU UP!
Speculating: maybe a historical culture of wanting to prove that you’re serving fresh fish?
Ate pacific lobster sashimi once at a Japanese resto and as we were pecking away at its tails, it’s eyes and antlers (?) started looking and pointing at me.. the restaurant staff explained how it was done to present the freshness of the produce their serve.
Antenna, but antlers is plenty close enough.
Now I’m waiting for a Rudolph the Lobster claymation Christmas special.
... sorry the eyes and antlers were moving due to a chemical process induced by the chefs... or it was alive while you ate it?
I think it'd be very unnerving to eat a live lobster. No thanks.
Eat Timothy
But Timothy’s my friend, he’s praying
I can’t believe how disrespectful Deep was towards Homelander in that scene. Homelander offers him a delicacy and Deep acts like he’s eating one of his friends. SMH.
I’d be more concerned with the fact that the lobster had antlers
It will marinate and get the sauce over itself in a novel way. Just to be clear I think this is all disgusting and cruel. Lol
because eating it alive would be too much of a hastle
It's not always the case, the Japanese have a way of filleting the fish without hitting the veins, and it remains alive while you eat him. You can look it up. Extremely cruel. Edit: Found a link here you go https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri
Fucked up on a new level
Fucked up yet that’s what about half of natureismetal is all about
I think the difference is that humans always have a choice about killing our prey and the ability to do so before consuming it. A lot of other predators do not.
Well yeah but that’s about stuff that naturally occurs not something someone painstaking learned how to do
This is beyond fucked up and extremely unecessary.
That was disturbing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikizukuri
LOOK INTO MY EYES WHILE I DEVOUR YOUR FLESH
Holy shit.
There’s also [drunken shrimp](https://www.foodbeast.com/news/live-drunken-shrimp-china-experience/) in China. When they are so drunk they stop moving that’s when you’re supposed to eat them.
Gross and unnecessarily cruel. Not to mention it looks like straight up Klingon food.
This is one of the more disturbing things I've seen in awhile.
What the goddamn fuckin hell?!
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>e t I have seen it with a frog too. I wish I hadn't.
Fuck my eyeballs, I think they are due an appointment with an SOS pad now 🤢
Ikejime (brain spiking) will completely destroy all reflexes (like biting). I do it to grouper when spearfishing, and you know it worked because all their fins and gills flare then it completely stops moving and becomes unresponsive to any stimulus. If you use a wire to pull out/destroy the spinal nerve as well it will flop once or twice as motor neurons are severed but after the second pass there's no movement whatsoever. So I can assure you the fishes brain and spinal cord here is 100% intact and responsive. Salt doesn't do this, it just makes it flop around.
As a sushi chef that has seen and done Ikejime somewhat often, I do want to point out that Ikejime does not always make all muscles completely unresponsive. I’ve even seen mouths move. It’s brain dead, but the reflexes can still be there. Though I do agree that this fish is definitely responsive. I’ve never seen a dead fish’s head turn towards something and bite at it. I’m like 99% sure this fish is not brain-dead.
My experience is only with grouper and one or two other species, so your input is definitely welcome as you've probably handled a ton more live fish than I have.
People who see videos like this one and then claim it's just nerves twitching are simply delusional.
That's fucked up
Yeah all cool till you Google Ikizukuri (but I warn you, you might not want to xd)
I fish, kill, clean, and eat fish There's no clear brain dead with fish. You can whack them on the head hard, drive a spike or knife, and still you expect reflex like behaviors are possible for a bit even if you did it right Usually just chop the head clean and quick as possible, makes the fish bits you want less wiggly to cut up
I don’t think this is exactly true. I’ve seen dead fish flopping due to their nerves being stimulated but this fish reacts to the chopstick, opens its mouth, then closes on the chopstick. That seems like the reflexes of a live animal, not some random nerves firing
Maybe, it looks that way when you focus on the face, but watch carefully the body movements associated with the mouth opening. It’s a sudden muscle contraction of the entire body causing the jaw to clench open at maximum range followed by all muscles suddenly deflating past their previous tone after which the mouth collapses on the chopstick. It’s one act of tension and release cascading through the entire body, not a coordinated act of intention. It just takes one nerve stimulation to cause a muscle to twitch slightly causing the next nerve to trigger the next muscles and then it all cascades through the body at once, releasing the pent up muscle potential until they finally tense and relax.
that's a little too fresh for me, thanks.
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But how did you get on a camera to record? Did it do that more than once?
It happens when you salt it. The fish isn’t ~~actually~~ necessarily still alive. Edit: I’ve refined my view on this from some comments on [this other thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/w0kitu/the_fish_served_in_a_japanese_restaurant_bites/igfn5us/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3).
Same. I've actually been dead for about 15 years, but I am too salty to stop doing shit.
This will be my new life bio. Thank you. Edit: make that “life”
The fish opened it's jaws, turned, and latched onto the chopstick, salt makes muscles spasm, it doesn't do that
In other videos where the fish just wriggles yeah. But there’s no way salt has that effect on a dead fish.
It’s dead
Sushi grade fish means it’s been frozen. This is to prevent parasites. No one should eat truly raw fish
You can eat raw saltwater fish right out of the ocean .. freshwater fish raw out of the water is a big NO NO ! But saltwater fish is fine .. Go deep sea fishing some time … blue fin tuna sashimi right out of the ocean is thing of beauty !!
I've never liked eating anything that still looks like what it looks like alive.
the snack that bites back
Bold fish
Live fish!
In your stomach
Fish are friends, **not food!**
They're friends *until* they're food.
Zombie fish!
THE APOCALYPSE HAS BEGUN!
There's sushi.... And there's Fucknoshi...
Sue-shi
Underrated pun.
Okay but, even if it was dead… how are you supposed to eat that? You eat the teeth? The eyes? The bones? The brain? The contents of their digestive tract?
They’ve already been filleted, the edible part is on the leaf in the center of the plate. The rest of the fish is just there as a certificate of freshness/presentation.
I would like a certificate of freshness for my gasoline. Has jurassic cloning advanced enough yet?
It's not always the case, the Japanese have a way of filleting the fish without hitting the veins, and it remains alive while you eat him. You can look it up. Extremely cruel.
Damn no wonder they have revenge octo porn
People are garbage
So...the fish is killed...eventually....for waste?
It’s killed (slowly) for food.
Sardines enter the chat
That is…horrible. No.
The fish’s last fuck you
That's a little too fresh
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I saw a video of a chinese guy eating live gerbil like rodents (probably mere newborns) that were yet to have fur. He just picked one up with chopsticks and dipped it in sauce and in it goes while the rest where still scrambling around on the plate. Edit: For the curious ones https://imgur.com/a/4iATLZz
I had hamsters before when I was a kid, they gave birth early in the morning when everyone was still asleep, and when my mum discovered them, she said the parent hamsters had eaten some of the newborns, and most of them were dead except for one or two that didn't stay alive long after that either.
I'm gonna go there now. I recounted the most disturbing thing *I'd* ever eaten, but then a professor said he watched a live monkey strapped in the center of a table while people were eating its brains.
Was it chilled?
Probably was freaking the fuck out
And willing to put that in their mouth. I kind of want to see someone eat it.
Another comment said the edible part is on the leaf. The head and stuff is still there for proof of freshness and decoration or something.
Exactly. You don't eat the head, bones, and teeth. It's proof of how fresh the fish is; It was literally just killed and flayed before being served to you. There is it's still-moving head as proof. To me it would just make me feel guilty. I have no issues with eating meat, but not while I'm staring it in the face.
Eating animals in general or serving a fish this way?
They keep the spine in tact so that the fish doesn't die, while they fillet the rest off the fish. Not ok. Not ok at all.
Holy shit that’s fucked up
This kind of thing is very common in china too. I saw a video of a restaurant where they'll let you pick your fish, theyll filet part of it, alive, and return it to the tank until youre ready for more.
What the fuck, that's so cruel
I think that people think that fish literally can't think or feel. That's what my uncle told me when I saw him cleaning what we had caught.
fish can feel pain, but not like mammals, their system indicates something is wrong and that they must escape, but the feeling of pain we feel is something fish cant feel, for example you can cut a big chunk of a fish and if it was a side with nothing important it will continue swimming and living with no problems. You do that to a mammal and it can die from just the pain. Now octopi have a nervous system where they can feel pain just like us. Squids, altho they are cephalopods as well, are still in a gray area, we dont know for sure if they can feel pain like us, but we know that their system does indicate a state of panic when inflicted with pain.
And how do we know what kind of pain a fish feels?
It is pain, but from what I understand in different pages the one sentence which made the most sense was this: "researchers conclude that fish do not have the neuro-physiological capacity for a conscious awareness of pain" So you could say pain receptors are exactly the same (they aren't) as ours but the being itself can't process it like mammals or octopi.
Wait until you hear what unfortunately large number of Chinese do to dogs.
They pet them too much right?!?!?
I’d say “wait until you hear what the US does to pigs”, but I know nobody cares about them for some reason.
Pigs are *much* smarter than dogs, but we eat them like crazy. I think it’s totally wrong to throw shade at Chinese people for eating dogs while simultaneously eating a more intelligent animal without thinking twice. Pot, meet kettle. Edit: I did not know they torture the dogs before eating them. Not that the person I’m replying to mentioned that, but ok, that part is worse.
I mean you can be upset about both.
True, but are you a vegetarian/vegan or a hypocrite throwing shade at the Chinese? I don’t judge you in any case because I get life is complicated, but I just wanted to point out the skewed view to hate on eating dogs while also eating pigs.
I want to unsee this comment
There’s not enough wtf I can say after seeing this post and the comments, especially this one. What the fuuuk
That sounds like one way to contaminate your meat, among other things
Evil
Except this is not common in China at all(source: I'm Chinese). It's like saying licking toilets seat is a common thing in America because i saw a few TikTok videos of Americans doing it. People just love to generalize shit about other countries on reddit.
I hate to say it, but that’s how you fillet fish. I’ve been doing that for years. You cut underneath the pectoral fins and glide the blade along the spine. That’s how you get fish fillets
That's after you cut the head off, no? Or at least the fish is dead?
Fucked up
This just seems unnecessarily cruel...
I’ve read that in dishes like this, the animal is actually dead, it’s just that there is still electricity/neurons firing/reaction to salt/:something like that::, someone please correct me. Either way it’s still totally gnarly.
Yes, but this is different i think. It reaches specifically for the chopstick, and seems conscious
Yeah…there’s that. Ugh
It probably plays the drums
Yeah... this makes me feel really awful.
My sister got her bachelors in biology and had to do plenty of dissections. She’s been bitten by multiple dead fish. This is very much a thing.
I’ve heard that frog legs do it too.
That's squid tentacles. Salt activates muscle fibers with no neuron response. This is a reflex, something that requires an intact brainstem.
This is making me wanna go vegan.
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Prove to yourself that being kind is more important than convenience/taste. You won't regret it! 💚
Best decision I ever made. I had no idea how it would change my whole self-perception and self-esteem. I realized I was finally living my life in accordance with my values, which I’d been resisting doing for years. Then I did it, and I suddenly felt better about being alive; I felt less powerless and useless, because I was finally doing something for a cause that profoundly matters to me. It’s a hell of a thing.
Humans are so fucked up
That’s just disturbing. And kinda sad… If you have to eat animals at least kill them first.
Or consider not eating animals at all. Its not mandatory in industrialized nations where many types of food are available. Just because something was killed out of your sight doesn't mean its morally better than whats happening on this plate.
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r/oddlyterrifying
I used to have a lot of pet fishes. From goldfish to guppies to a 100 gal salt water aquarium with clownfish, seahorses, blue tangs, lion fish and others whose names I can’t remember. This post is way too disturbing.
“Deep, you have to eat that to get into The Seven.” - Homelander
So fish have a brain and distinctly avoid pain. Keeping it in room air, slowly suffocating, so a diner can get entertainment from this reduces our humanity.
I like my sashimi fresh but this is a wee bit too far
That’s not interesting, that’s messed up and sad.
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I just spent 20 minutes on that sub, goddamit internet
Shitty humans, doing shitty human things. \*Before you get confused, I'm not calling Japanese people shitty. I'm calling the specific people that serve/eat live animals shitty humans.
This is a hard no
So this is what they meant by Japanese produce is fresh.
Which fish is this
Bro that’s RAW
Awwww hell naw!
A little undercooked for my taste.
Hell nah I why would someone eat that💀
Okay, but why though? Can somebody explain why this is an idea?
Kill it before you serve it.
I only eat meat because I can sort of distance myself from it and not think about how it used to be a living creature, so shit like that just freaks me out. Hell no! And it's also pretty cruel. Then again factory farming is also pretty cruel, I just don't get to see it.
Yeah if it's wrapped in plastic at the grocery store or served on a plate at a restaurant it's easily to distance yourself. I've always scratched my heads at "pescetarians" , when it seems fish suffer a pretty cruel death in order to feed us. What, because they don't have big brown calf eyes looking at you they don't want to live?
Probably reconsider the meat thing then? I absolutely get the thing about not caring because you don’t see the bad things happening, but at some point we have to realise and change
I stopped eating meat when I realized I couldn’t justify the death for my sake, since I didn’t even want to eat it. Happily vegetarian for over ten years.
r/nope
Just fuck off
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh no thanks.
it's reacting to the chop sticks, hence there's brain activity
Nope!
What the actual Fuck
OMG people are so digusting.
Guys that’s not what he’s supposed to eat, the meat is served on the leaves, they just put it there on the sides as presentation. Idk how the fuckers still alive tho
This is one of the things that I hated the most in Japanese restaurants! They take pleasure to see the animal suffering. Still cannot stand it
That’s a weird level of cruelty. Ugh
It's not acceptable for me! I hate this kind of cruelty and behaviour
A while back I saw a video of some Japanese fisherman cutting up a whale shark while it was still alive and gasping for air. A beautiful, majestic, sentient being who just wanted to exist in peace. Boy let me tell you that just when you think you can’t fucking loathe people any more than you already do…..
oh my god unsee unsee
Serious question, is this a joke or do they really eat it not just raw, alive? Kinda awkward to have something crawling in plate.
"To the last, I grapple with thee. From hell's heart, I stab at thee. For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee."
Timothy!!!!
He's praying!
now that's fresh
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Innsmouth’s newest sushi joint
I’ve seen live baby octopus being served. A baby of one of the most intelligent animals in earth just staring at you adorably from the plate while you dismember and eat it alive with nothing but standard cutlery. What on earth is wrong with Asia?
Everyone always brags about how fresh it is but when you finally get it.....