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From: rusty@sdcarl.UUCP (rusty c. wright)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: eating live things
Message-ID: <213@sdcarl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 12:15:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: sdcarl.213
Posted: Wed Jun 26 12:15:08 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Jun-85 02:47:27 EDT
Reply-To: rusty@sdcarl.UUCP (Rusty Wright)
Organization: Computer Audio Research Lab, UCSD, San Diego, Calif.
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Reading the long reply about how to eat/clean/cook clams i have to
admit that i was rather repelled by the description of squirting some
lemon juice on the clam to make it squirm in order to verify that it
is still alive before eating it.  The idea of putting a live animal
in my mouth and using my teath to crush and pulverize something in
order to kill it strikes me as somewhat barbaric.  Almost made me
want to go vegetarian (but not quite, you'll have to try harder next
time).  This made me think about other ``interesting'' eating
practices involving live animals.  I don't know of any.  What other
ones are there?  Things like sticking lobsters in boiling water don't
really count since the lobster is (presumably) killed right off when
it hits the water.  I have heard of something where monkeys have
their skull sliced open and their brains are eaten with chopsticks.
I'm not sure if they're supposed to be alive while eaten.
-- 
	rusty c. wright
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