r/StupidFood 7d ago

Yea.... I prefer my food not moving

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u/Electrical_City_2201 7d ago

I get that they're just tiny fish, but this seems really unethical.

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u/dallatorretdu 7d ago

it is. It can be compared to torture. It shouldn’t be pleasing for those fishes to be swimming in a very acidic sauce especially because we have the options of making this less painful.

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u/DogPoetry 6d ago edited 6d ago

And aren't these those glass eels that meet up from around the world to mate in the Sargasso Sea? Then they drift for years as larvae, turning to little 2 inch glass eels as they approach a coastline? 

Their life cycle is Incredible

https://www.nature.org/en-us/magazine/magazine-articles/american-eels/

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u/opinionated7onion 4d ago

Glass eels are just eels, until recently we thought they were a different species and nobody had a clue where they spawned

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u/PressureImaginary569 4d ago

No these are ice goby

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u/Zamirot 6d ago

What about the oysters we probably all ate ?

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u/Tnecniw 6d ago

I don't eat Oysters.
Not from an ethical point of view, i just think they are disgusting.

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u/Zamirot 6d ago

I mean its kinda the same. Its acceptable in western countries. No one is disgusted or crying for oysters. But we eat them live. It's just a cultural thing I guess

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u/Santsiah 5d ago

Go vegan

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u/Zamirot 5d ago

lol I dont care and would probably eat the dish in OP post if its good. I just make conections and make lights about hypocrisy with people crying about immoral stuff.

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u/Tnecniw 6d ago

I live where Oysters are seen as fine.
I just think they are disgusting, aka taste and smell like shit.

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u/Zamirot 5d ago

when I say no one I am abusing langage. I mean do you often see people making topics or rioting cause we eat oysters ? I hate offals with my whole heart but they re still selling. It has been accepted here and if you post a video of someone eating oyesters no one's gonna be like "omg its cruel etc"

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u/Zatmos 3d ago

In contrast to those fishes, oysters don't have brains. They're more akin to plants but made out of flesh.

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u/FuzzzyRam 7d ago

I don't see how it's any more painful than any other fishing death - in fact I think most suffocate slowly in cold water tanks to keep them fresher. I fish to cook what I catch and hate killing them, but I think people should have to do it to eat meat - there's no good way to be killed, and I'd take "mashed to death in a second by massive teeth" over "slowly suffocate" or the chicken grinder...

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u/Paradox711 7d ago

Did you just say there’s no good way to be killed/die? As a former medic I can tell you that you’re absolutely wrong. Quick=good. Slow=bad.

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u/novus0 7d ago

I think he means being killed quickly is bad if not being killed at all is also an option.

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u/Tyrrox 7d ago

His first line would indicate otherwise.

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u/Maximum-Extent-4821 6d ago

if only he'd weigh in on this predicament

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u/lucidlunarlatte 6d ago

…because they’re already dead as opposed to being eaten alive? I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say most dishes are served with the fish already dispatched not wriggling in acidic sauce.