Cooked & Eaten Alive
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Take a few moments to absorb what you see in the video here. It’s not a long video, but it is a video sure to have very strong impact on you. Take a closer look at the dishes on offer, and consider how satisfying our palate has become a game rather than a necessity. Put yourself in the place of these animals for a minute especially that poor fish. Why would anyone wish to eat meat that the animal is still moving and alive. What is the thrill of that?
Called the “alive fish” dish, the chef takes a wet cloth to wrap around the fish’s head. In this way, the chef can keep the fish alive and breathing. Next, the body of the “alive fish” is dipped into boiling oil until it is cooked. The chef must have the “skill” to cook this dish and it is consider a failure if the fish dies before it is served.
I am just numb from how sick people have to be to eat their meat while it is still alive. Think of the heavy pain it creates for the animals. How can you be eating the animal while it is in pain and still alive? How can you enjoy that? It takes a very disturbed type of taste to enjoy this for sure. Eating animals is already pretty bad, but eating them alive? Think of the heavy karma of the cook and participants. Think what results will come for them in the future?
Is it appetizing to have your meal die halfway while you are eating it? Leave your comments, share this link, let others know and be aware.
Tsem Rinpoche
what adds to the already sick mind of these game is that the fish mouth must be moving and alive then it is consider successful, that is really sick.
i’ve heard and seen ppl talking about enjoying exotic delicacies such as eating the brain of a monkey alive, and served with chinese wine or hearbal soup, seeing the poor monkey head being cut open exposing the brain while the poor thing being lock or tied under the table with its head exposing out of the center of the table, and then pour a boiled herbal soup onto the brain, and seeing the poor creature writhing and screaming in pain, while the ppl enjoy the so call exotic delicacy is something very disturbing. It just show how Homosapien can go a long way just to satisfied the insatiable lust of food or so called “delicacy”, and causing not only harm, but suffering of other sentients being, worst off is eating them alive is an enjoyment?? It’s really sickening.
This make me sick to my stomach.
there are many great thing about China peoples.There are also many bad thing of them.Still uncivilised and do not know their action can be harmful.They should change their entire education system in China so that the people can learn about humanity and moral values such as the Confucius.
I have actually eaten the alive lobster and the alive fish, each once. Always in China, and always for special dinners.
This is more than ten years ago.
When we eat the lobster we actually see the lobster still moving and slowly dying right there, standing on a timber platter in the middle of the table for his last performance. The lobster is trying to grab to life with his claws and his antenna are moving about slower and slower until its life force evades him completely.
It’s chilling!
By then, I was told by my Chinese hosts that we had to eat the fish or the lobster before the animal die, true enough, everyone was happily eating while giggling at the dying animal in front of them. They also explained to me that these dishes are traditional dishes that demonstrate the freshness of the meat and the skill of the chef, so they give face and reputation to whoever host the dinner.
Well, so much for face and reputation… really!
Once, I ordered that lobster by mistake, it happens often in China when one does not speak Chinese, I remember that at our table we were so mush at a loss when we saw that tortured animal arrive on our table, we quickly sent it back to the kitchen with some sense of guilt, out of my sight! Out of my sight!
Today, I just could not take this as curiosities anymore, I know more. And I also know that it is simply not acceptable!
How could people enjoy the fish’s flesh or the chopped-up writhing snake. It is plain obvious that the animal is in tremendous pain as their death is prolonged for the enjoyment of these people. Seeing the animals suffer would usually deter people from eating the flesh of these poor animals. Tremendous negative karma for those who kill and partake. This video is a perfect reminder of how meat delicacies are a result of great suffering and having meat is just perpetuating this pain and as a result, we reap what we sow.
I still remember in the past before I became a vegetarian, out of ignorance, I thought nothing of eating seafood. I used to go to Klang for seafood with friends and family and we would order a variety of seafood like steamed fish that was still swimming in the aquarium before we ordered the dish, plates of shell fish (Locally known as La La) that were alive before it was cooked for us, drunken prawns where live prawns that were flambe before our very eyes etc etc.
I thought nothing of the suffering inflicted on the fishes, prawns, shellfish etc at that time, enjoyed it and rejoiced that I had such a good meal of fresh seafood after that.
Now that I know better, I can’t take this anymore. I regret my past ignorance. I would never make another being suffer so that I satisfy my taste buds.
Hi there. I’ve been a Buddhist my whole life but I didn’t really learn much from the religion, only recently I started to question certain teachings from Buddha Himself. As Buddha once said, along the lines of “Whatever is it that you do, use your own sincere judgment to discern what is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, before deciding upon something.” Anyway, I’m not here to have debate on my beliefs, and have no intention of doing so.
I’m to ask you what do you think of the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo
The world is changing so fast, I think there will unfortunately much more of this as people panic to keep things as they always have been. If they run out of food, there’s lots and lots of people in China so they won’t starve!! If you get my meaning. Maybe there clever chefs will have to learn to serve something new! SAMSARA NEVER ENDS.
What terrible heavy negative karma have these fishes and snakes created in the past for them to experience such sufferings? What about these chefs, judges, spectators watching in the cooking competition? What causes them to be so cold blooded to be involved in these acts of Killing for the mere pleasure?
The world talks about basic human rights but what about basic animal rights? Animals also have the right to live on Planet Earth and not be subject to human consumption.
Modern Science has proven the law of cause and effect. Why is it that people continue to kill or consume meat? Don’t they realise they WILL reap what they had sowed? There is an urgent need to educate the World about the effects of Killing and consumption of meat.
OM MANI PADME HUM
What kind of sick practice is this. They should ban it as it is harming animals for entertainment rather than food. It is bad enough eating the animal when it was dead. It is even worse when the animal is eaten ALIVE. There is so much heavy negative karma on both the chefs and the consumers. I hope they stop this.
The numbness these ‘savages’ have in hurting the animals makes them inhuman. How can anyone ignore the unbearable immensed pains, strife,grief and fear suffered by these living creatures just to satisfy the sadistical lust of these ‘sick’ people. Eating the flesh of these animals are already sinful, but eating them alive with their bodies dipped into burning oil is something out of this mad mad world, meant perhaps for people with intensed sickness of insanity! Such sense of feeling is truly cold, hard, cruel and sadistical, which will eventually bring more problems to those who inflicted such pains and sufferings. As in the golden quotes of Thich Nhat Hanh – “In every country in the world, killing human beings is condemned, the Buddhist precept of non-killing extends even further, to include all living beings.”
I confess I had on several occasion indulged in sashimi live lobster meals before I became vegetarian 2 1/2 yrs ago.
It will take awhile for me to purify this sick action which I regret deeply.
We are humans because we have a conscience.Without training our mind,we will not be able to prevent our attachment to sense pleasures to overcome our greed.Our capacity for kindness is too weak to resist habitual sense gratification.
We need to take personal responsibility for our negative eating habits which make us less human. Eating animals and causing suffering to them to satisfy our taste buds is not an option. But there are plenty of other food options to replace eating meat.
An immediate benefit would be we can sleep well without our conscience disturbing us.
It’s a matter of taste. My girlfriends and I have enjoyed the live fish meal several times. It tastes yummy and it is hilarious to watch the fish as it watches us eat it. We try to finish the meat before it dies. Then we pour alcohol on its head and mouth. This must burn or something because it quivers and flops around for a while. We laugh at it! These fish are incredible. We have seen one live for an hour after all the meat was eaten. We just sat there and talked and drank wine until it died.