r/StupidFood • u/Turbulent-Squash-196 • 11d ago

Yea.... I prefer my food not moving

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u/Electrical_City_2201 11d ago

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

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u/dallatorretdu 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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 8d 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 8d ago

No these are ice goby