Do You Eat Anything When It Is Still Alive?

[Neilk]

That's just wrong with the fish. Weirds me out that they are looking at you while you are eating them.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Neilk

That's just wrong with the fish. Weirds me out that they are looking at you while you are eating them.

I'm not even gonna look. I don't eat animals at all, dead or alive.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by milt

I'm not even gonna look. I don't eat animals at all, dead or alive.

You don't eat fruits and vegetables? Or do you not consider them to be living things?

[jyl]

Repeat

Maybe we should eliminate fruits and vegetables from this. A carrot would qualify as "life" if we found it on Mars, but I'm not sure how you determine when a carrot has "died". So, I'm really talking animals.

[Zeke]

Where did I say anything about fruit or vegetables? I eat stuff right off the vine, plant or out of the ground. I also eat pancakes made from eggs. I'm not some health food nut. And, I don't think of the egg being alive by the time I get it, although have probably eaten some pretty "fresh" eggs at a farm. But not, raw.

[jyl]

I too have eaten shrimp that was alive just moments before. Delicious.

I used to fish in Baja a lot. We'd sometimes catch yellowtail. I thought about cutting a strip off the living fish and gnawing off the last connection. But it always seemed too cruel. Also, never had wasabi or soy sauce handy in the panga.

Eating sea urchin alive would seem logical. It is important for uni to be very fresh, or it gets a hint of bitterness. Sea urchin seems a low enough form of life that it wouldn't bother me.

I don't know enough about biology to understand exactly how the line between animal and vegetable is defined. Well, here is what I find

The difference between plant and animal comes down to cell structure. Plants have a tough, cellulose wall and animals don’t. Plants have chloroplasts that photosynthesize matter from carbon dioxide and sun. Also, plants take in carbon dioxide to help create plant material and give off oxygen as a byproduct, whereas animals take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide as a byproduct. Plants use the energy from the sun to convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into simple sugar to build its body. Lastly, most plant cells and some animal cells have a vacuole; an organelle responsible for removing and storing waste, keeping the cell from collapsing in upon itself, and maintaining pH; acid/base balance.

Animals are able to move, while plants remain stationary. Animals also have a complex nervous system that can perform many tasks, while plants lack a brain and all the organs that animals have to carry out metabolic function as animals take their carbon from organic substances and plants take their carbon from the air. Animals have a fixed growth, whereas most plants can grow indefinitely, branching out in many directions.

[RWebb]

well....

there are sessile animals - like oysters. I have tried to convince various vegetarians that oysters are thus ok to eat. Limited success, tho some have provided fond fodder for eating...

palnts like neurons and the associated ganglia, etc. that most animals have -- it's all done with auxins (plant hormones)

other differences too.

animal also includes rotifers, and other microscopic things

[Hugh R]

don't the Kilngons say that Ghaa is best eaten live?

[cantdrv55]

Gak

I'm a Star Trek geek

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by jyl

Do You Eat Anything When It Is Still Alive?

Poontang.

[m21sniper]

Originally Posted by cantdrv55

Gak

I'm a Star Trek geek

I thought it was Gog?

[Super_Dave_D]

One time, I ate a live snake just to survive in the wild rainforest.......no wait, that was survival man!

[The Gaijin]

"iki-zakana" live fish.

I sat at a table where this was served. The fish was sliced and placed back on the bones. No thank you!

The mouth open and closing and the eyes looking at you. I am no veggie - but that was too much.

[dd74]

Don't fruits and vegetables have to be attached to their vines or branches to still be alive?

[rnln]

the fishes, those animals. I bet it's hurt like hell. Oh mine, it's just... not right.