Re:Japan's ‘dancing zombie squid’
by true_religion on Friday February 08, 2019 @05:46PM
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I am not sure why this is a show of torture. The squid is quite dead before it reaches the table. It's basically being used as a marionette by chemical signals, but still quite dead---hence calling it a "zombie".
I do still eat chicken, but I recognize it as a personal moral failing and point of shame. The fact that I come from a culture where it is normalized explains my behaviour, but doesn't absolve my responsibility.
Making a show of torturing the animal in front of the customer is particularly abhorrent.