Various cattle herding nomadic tribes will bleed an animal – not enough to kill it – and consume the blood in various dishes. That seems rather friendly and caring compared to some of the practices described above.
The Masai do that, IIRC.
“When you have a pig this good you don’t eat it all at once”
I’ve eaten that! It’s pretty gross.
Ever seen Faces of Death?
Approximately eight people a year die in Korea while eating small live octopi. The thing gloms onto them in the gullet and they suffocate.
I’ve heard that chopping the top of a live monkey’s head off and eating its brains is just something the locals made up to impress film crews and tourists.
Cecil wrote about this awhile back.
I haven’t quite found a definitive account substantiating the claim, though. The “Faces of Death” scene is pretty clearly a, um, dramatic recreation of the story.
I forget where I heard this analysis, but years ago, I heard a sociologist who’d studied cuisine in many cultures, and he summed it up thus: “Historically, humans don’t mind eating animals that are still alive. We just refuse to eat animals that make a noise while we’re eating them.”
Mangrove worms! Are those the “tree mollusks” I saw eaten on ‘Bush Tucker Man’ years ago? Two feet of snotty slime.
Cant possibly be for the texture or presentation, must taste like ambrosia I guess.
There was a thread here a while back about a video wherein a fish was prepared in such a way that the body was fully cooked, but the head was still raw and gaping - appearing alive (but perhaps not)
Spider wasps lay their eggs in spiders. Their young then, just like the chestbursters in the Alien movies, eat their way out, killing the host. Don’t try this at home, folks: Spider wasp - Wikipedia
And a post not so a while back: see post #9 above. Truly disturbing.
Well, there was that German guy who successfully requested to be eaten alive.
Either whoosh? Or (very dubious about this), cite?
Ordering the signature dish at a place like Joe’s Stone Crab is indeed a win-win situation: 1) with a spritz of lemon and a dunking in their proprietary mustard sauce, there’s quite simply nothing tastier on the planet 2) you get to ride your sanctimonious high horse at full gallop: scan fellow diner’s plates with a haughty air of repugnancy and berate their barbaric menu choices (e.g. “oh, I see you’ve ordered something that had to be murdered to satisfy your loathsome appetite…on the other hand the remainder of my entrée is frolicking about in the ocean this very moment, happily growing a new appendage for me to feast upon another day.”*
Now, If we can convince the Birkenstock-and-granola crowd that crippling animals is less offensive than killing them, perhaps we’ll see this farming model extended to less regenerative types of meat (e.g. Convalescent Cattle Ranch; Gimpy Chicken Ranch; Porky’s Don’t Eat Me All At Once Pig Farm). Time to invest in livestock wound care and prostheses.
*man or woman, say this in the voice and manner of Bette Davis.
And going beyond that cite, somebody on this board actually knew Bernd Brandes and confirmed this story was true.