I will eat a live oyster just fine - it has no brain.
Anything with a brain I couldn't imagine eating while it was still alive. Something like a lobster, even if boiled alive, is dead when served.
Tearing a frog in half and placing it to look at you while you consume it just seems cruel for the sake of it.
I dunno. While there's some spectacle in that, I would think the main message is more the guarantee that the food is as fresh as it can be. Maybe I'm wrong tho and the restaurant is doing that purely for novelty. There's no way around the fact that producing meat is a messy business, whether you do it at the sushi bar or behind the walls of a slaughterhouse.
Yeah, but slaughterhouses are at least supposed to make sure the animal is dead before they process it further. If you make sure it doesn't feel anything right before as you prepare the food in front of your customer you will get the exact same freshness without a chance of the animal suffering needlessly for it.
Well, I guess you have the religious exceptions and the odd scandals of slaughterhouses not doing everything according to code too... I'm all for the less painful to the animals mass production of meat possible but even the "humane" way of doing it is still a pretty brutal act by essence. The cruelty may also extend beyond the killing itself in our mass production model, with animals being grown at forced pace in the smallest environment possible. Obviously, fishes caught at sea cannot be put to sleep and for all I know may actually feel pain or something akin to it during the whole process. What I mean is that there's only so much you can do to make the thing less cruel short of not eating meat. I wonder if there's not some hypocrisy to the whole thing largely fostered by new sensibilities that only exist because we managed to insulate ourselves from the harsh realities of food production.
Honestly I'm not that shocked by the cook doing the whole dirty deed right there in front of you.
Then again, I'm maybe not in the majority view for that sort of thing.
