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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. 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".
''The Guardian'', 17 April 2012. '' The Guardian'' 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.
Macho foodies in New York develop a taste for notoriety
''The Observer'', Sunday 30 May 2010.
''Fox News'', 19 October 2009.
''Discovery News'', 27 March 2009.
''HowStuffWorks''. Retrieved 27 May 2012. {{seafood Cruelty to animals Seafood dishes Dishes involving the consumption of live animals
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. 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 byEU Directive 2010/63/EU
Directive 2010/63/EU is the European Union (EU) legislation "on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes" and is one of the most stringent ethical and welfare standards worldwide.
The Directive repealed Directive 86/609/EEC. It b ...
"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 Louis Cole can refer to:
* Louis Cole (musician), American multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, part of Knower
* Louis Cole (YouTuber)
Louis John Cole (born 28 April 1983), better known by his original online alias FoodForLouis, then l ...
ran a YouTube channel in which he ate live seafood
Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...
.The man who eats live animals''The Guardian'', 17 April 2012. '' The Guardian'' 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 in Hyderabad, where asthma patients are given a live sardine to eat which is supposed to cure their asthma. Infection by the fish tapeworm ''Diphyllobothrium latum
''Diphyllobothrium'' is a genus of tapeworms which can cause diphyllobothriasis in humans through consumption of raw or undercooked fish. The principal species causing diphyllobothriasis is ''D. latum'', known as the broad or fish tapeworm, ...
'' 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 live animals is the practice of humans eating animals that are still alive. It is a traditional practice in many East Asian food cultures. Animals may also be eaten alive for shock value. Eating live animals, or parts of live animals, may ...
* Eating raw fish
* Ethics of eating meat
* Monkey brains (cuisine)
* ''Odorigui
''Odorigui'' ( θΈγι£γ, literally "dancing eating") is a mode of seafood consumption in Japanese cuisine.
''Odorigui'' refers to the consumption of live seafood while it is still moving, or the consumption of moving animal parts. Animals ...
'', Japanese term for consumption of live seafood while it is still moving
* Pain in crustaceans
* Pain in fish
Whether fish feel pain similar to humans or differently is a contentious issue. Pain is a complex mental state, with a distinct perceptual quality but also associated with suffering, which is an emotional state. Because of this complexity, t ...
* Pain in invertebrates
References
External links
Macho foodies in New York develop a taste for notoriety
''The Observer'', Sunday 30 May 2010.
''Fox News'', 19 October 2009.
''Discovery News'', 27 March 2009.
''HowStuffWorks''. Retrieved 27 May 2012. {{seafood Cruelty to animals Seafood dishes Dishes involving the consumption of live animals