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A video posted to 5ch’s “Everything Live” board showing a crab being cooked in a brutal way drew a wave of reactions. Viewers were stunned that the crab kept moving even after being cut apart, with comments like “isn’t this thing way too tough to kill?” The conversation soon turned to Japan’s food culture of cooking seafood alive, such as ikizukuri (live sashimi preparation). From there, discussion spiraled into questions about whether crustaceans can feel pain or fear, and a fierce debate over the ethics of eating whale meat — ending without any consensus.
What people said
Well, the ones sitting in the tank are already half-dead anyway
It's still alive even with everything cut off
Might surprise you, but fish keep gasping and gaping even after being sliced into sashimi
It's called ikizukuri (live sashimi prep)
Humans stay alive for a while too even after losing a limb
Unfortunately, this country eats dogs too
Foreigners would probably be shocked
Italians butcher them alive too, just like the Japanese, so it's not that big a deal
Fish-butchering methods aren't all that different from country to country
Impressive that you know such useless trivia
What kind of life do you have to live to know how Italians butcher eels
They're all going to hell
Are you seriously talking about the afterlife?
It's cute that you believe in heaven
They'd probably flee from predators
And panic when a leg gets ripped off
Feels like fear has to be there somewhere
They probably do have emotions
Humans just can't perceive them
Heck, humans haven't even scientifically figured out human emotions
I mean, you can lose an arm just from taking a mantis shrimp punch
It's probably screaming its head off, it just can't make a sound
There are tons of videos of foreigners cooking stuff like this on YouTube
I think the point is, what kind of person goes out of their way to find that exact video
Watch one foreign cooking video and the recommendations just keep leading you to more
It's not that hard to stumble on
You lost this one
They only keep it going because it's Nikai's home turf, that's it (a jab at veteran lawmaker Toshihiro Nikai, long linked to protecting Japan's whaling industry)
Whales are basically people
Even if whales are basically people, they're no different from any other animal
What's the point of treating only whales as extra special?
That's a pointless law
The one with a name like a comic book character. Makes me sick🤮
"Kimetsu no Cook" (a pun on the anime Demon Slayer, Kimetsu no Yaiba)
But in Japan, whales — animals closer to humans than that — sit on supermarket shelves like it's nothing, and nobody questions it
Start by questioning your own "common sense"
There's always a reason behind it. You've just been brainwashed by your upbringing
Exactly this. Same with fishing — felt bad for them at first, but now I just casually cut off the head, toss the guts, and take it home
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The whale-meat controversy is a topic that keeps resurfacing online ever since Japan withdrew from the International Whaling Commission (IWC) in 2019 and resumed commercial whaling; the question of whether the line should be drawn based on intelligence once again ended without resolution this time. As for crustacean pain, the UK legally recognized decapods (such as lobsters and crabs) and cephalopods (octopuses and squid) as “sentient beings” in 2021 — the thread comment calling it “a pointless law” appears to be referring to this. Note that some posts in the thread flatly claimed that Chinese and Korean food culture “tastes better the more you torture the animal,” naming those countries directly, but since these are unsourced claims, they have been excluded from this article. In any case, whether crustaceans even have the nervous system needed to feel pain remains disputed among researchers, so it’s no surprise the thread never reached a conclusion.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Everything Live board) thread “[Video] Poor Crab Gets Cooked in a Brutal Way lol.”
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