PETA Pissed At Restaurants Serving Live Octopus

PETA is now focusing their gaze on the city's octopus community... which some find quite delicious! The organization's David Perle tells us they're addressing disturbing practices they've found in Manhattan and Queens restaurants, and aim to stop the "chopping up or slowly steaming live octopuses and serving them while they're still conscious."

They've penned some letters to the district attorneys of each jurisdiction, pointing out that octopuses can feel pain and the restaurants' practices violate the state's anti-cruelty statute. Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman noted that in some of these establishments, "the chef uses scissors to cut off an octopus's tentacles and then serves them on a dish—the octopus's heart keeps beating as the animal writhes and slowly die." In this National Geographic video, some take it a step further:

We've obtained the letters sent to the district attorneys, which name Sushi Uo at 151 Rivington Street, and Flushing's Sik Gaek and East Seafood Restaurant as the main culprits. The latter is allegedly the meeting spot for a Gastronauts club that dines on "macho" cuisine—their website shows photos of the live octopus (and a menu promising "live lobster" as well). What do you say: Bon Appetit or The Great Barf-O-Rama?

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By Jen Carlson in Food on April 14, 2010 3:37 PM

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Cannibal

I've heard that eating live PETA protesters is considered a delicacy at my apartment.

REELTALKBLOG_COM

Fuck PETA. bunch of bitches. Reel talk.

http://www.reeltalkblog.com

PayPaul

The things we allow in the name of political correctness in this country..

Perhaps maybe this would be a justification for eating one live though. Just sayin...

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-04/guerrilla-octopus-filmmaker-steals-divers-camera

Ibby

When is PETA gonna go after the real issues like people who eat live plants, They feel Pain!! Please, when they can feed everyone, kill every pedophile, stop the kidnapping of our children to be sold as sex slaves, and every other vile thing man does to man, and oh yeah I can Afford to eat a damn octopus! then I'll worry about some damn octopod's feelings!

Holsum Pan

No doubt they feel pain. I'd bet like most intelligent animals they also feel FEAR. This is terrible.

unretrofiedforu

All of you STFU. Seriously. Stop being a bunch of racist, ignorant, ethno-centric assholes.

That is how they octopi there. Don't like it? Don't go.

Are any of you Christian? If so, I'm offended because you glorify a scene of a human man suffering being nailed to a piece of wood. Or, could he feel pain because he was the son of God?

Exactly. Get a clue, there's other places/customs/traditions than your own.

pissflaps

peta is gay

Guest

That's an insult to the word, and community of, 'gay'.

Guest

USA, fueled by PETA, finally declares war on korea over its live-eating octupus practices...

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

what about eating dogs and live dogs hanging upside down in the market. wtf????

Guest

uhm, hello? if you're just spewing out demons, what's your real motive for standing up for peta? because you just showed that you're a dickfuck.

Guest

...live dogs? link please.

ribaldry

OCTOPUSES ARE SMARTER THAN MOST RETARDED CHILDREN

Guest

eh, looks like they're just training for post-world war iii survival tactics.

ps i don't eat live anything (a live octopus? i'd wince), except for fresh fruits and vegetables. :)

valeriob

Whatever, they are delicious, sorry.

Actually, I'm not sorry. They are delicious, remember?

La Flama Blanca

ROFL! Still bad though. I hate it when a bad person makes me laugh :(

Guest

laughter (and in some cases, women!), the key to make incredibly serious people lighten the fuck up.

La Flama Blanca

True dat. But the problem is that we have TOO much laughter (but, sadly, not enough women ;)) and not enough serious people.

Guest

oh and btw, none of my incredibly hot female friends are attracted to guys who act too seriously. the only exception is, when you're seriously funny. ;)

hah, improve your game or stay serious? that is the real question.

Guest

if you think that too much laughter is a problem, and that there aren't many serious people around... y'know, i can recommend you a really good and funny movie called, 'a serious man.'