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The practice of eating live seafood, such as fish, crab, oysters, baby shrimp, or baby octopus, is widespread.
Oysters are typically eaten live. The view that oysters are acceptable to eat, even by strict ethical criteria, has notably been propounded in the seminal 1975 text '' Animal Liberation,'' by philosopher
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The practice of eating live seafood, such as fish, crab, oysters, baby shrimp, or baby octopus, is widespread.
Oysters are typically eaten live. The view that oysters are acceptable to eat, even by strict ethical criteria, has notably been propounded in the seminal 1975 text '' Animal Liberation,'' by philosopher Peter Singer
Peter Albert David Singer (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher who is Emeritus Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. Singer's work specialises in applied ethics, approaching the subject from a secu ...
. However, subsequent editions have reversed this position (advocating ''against'' eating oysters). Singer has stated that he has "gone back and forth on this over the years", and as of 2010 states that "while you could give them the benefit of the doubt, you could also say that unless some new evidence of a capacity for pain emerges, the doubt is so slight that there is no good reason for avoiding eating sustainably produced oysters".
Live seafood dishes
Controversy
Octopuses are eaten alive in several countries around the world, including the United States. Animal welfare groups have objected to this practice on the basis that octopuses can experience pain. In support of this, since September 2010, octopuses being used for scientific purposes in the European Union are protected by EU Directive 2010/63/EU "as there is scientific evidence of their ability to experience pain, suffering, distress and lasting harm." In the United Kingdom, this means that octopuses used for scientific purposes must be killed humanely, according to prescribed methods (known as "Schedule 1 methods of euthanasia"). London resident Louis Cole ran aYouTube channel
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in which he ate live seafood
Seafood is any form of Marine life, sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including Fish as food, fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of Mollusca, molluscs (e.g., bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters, and mussel ...
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The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in Manchester in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'' and changed its name in 1959, followed by a move to London. Along with its sister paper, ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardi ...
'' commented on the ethical issues raised by the behaviour of Coles that: "It seems objectively less cruel to kill a scorpion instantly than to rear chickens in battery cages or pigs in the most miserable pork farms".
Health issues
In India, the government provides support for an annual fish medicine festival inHyderabad
Hyderabad is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Telangana. It occupies on the Deccan Plateau along the banks of the Musi River (India), Musi River, in the northern part of Southern India. With an average altitude of , much ...
, where asthma patients are given a live sardine to eat which is supposed to cure their asthma.
Improperly handled food, uncooked food, raw fish consumption and water contamination can transmit parasitic infections. Parasitic infections are common worldwide, although they are major health concerns in tropical countries.
Infection by the fish tapeworm '' Diphyllobothrium latum'' is seen in countries where people eat raw or undercooked fish.U.S. National Library of Medicine, Medline Plus, "Fish Tapeworm," .
See also
* Eating live animals * Eating raw fish *Ethics of eating meat
Conversations regarding the ethics of eating meat are focused on whether or not it is moral to eat non-human animals. People who abstain from eating meat are generally known as " vegetarians" and people who avoid all animal by-products are known ...
* Goldfish swallowing
* Monkey brains (cuisine)
* '' Odorigui'', Japanese term for consumption of live seafood while it is still moving
* Pain in crustaceans
* Pain in fish
* Pain in invertebrates
References
External links
Macho foodies in New York develop a taste for notoriety
''The Observer'', Sunday 30 May 2010.
Foods to Try Before You Die
''Fox News'', 19 October 2009.
''Discovery News'', 27 March 2009.
''HowStuffWorks''. Retrieved 27 May 2012. {{seafood Cruelty to animals Animal-based seafood Seafood dishes Dishes involving the consumption of live animals