RE: Rats: Do They Have a Good Side?
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Nicely written my friend.
Oddly I think I would be more inclined to eat a live octopus over a rat. That's not to say I wouldn't try both, but rodents I find more aversion to. Not because of the cleanliness implications, but rather their competitive nature with human space and food, and them knowing fully well that they are an intruder. It creates a disharmonious relationship between human and rodent, in most cases.
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Hello my friend, @futuremind.
Here I disagree with you. Octopuses are so intelligent. Imagine what they think and feel going down a gullet, knowing they are food. I certainly do find rats more repellent, and I agree they are intruders. But at least they are dead when eaten. No awareness.
Hope your holiday season has been peaceful and that you have enjoyed good health. Very gratified to see you here.
Ag
You raise a good point about the octopus.
I watched some documentaries on this mysterious creature recently. It has incredible shapeshifting abilities and some speculate that they are more intelligent than humans.
In the documentaries it was stated that generational intelligence is not passed on to new generations of octopus because it has a short life span, but I think that is not true because it's just not logical to me.
There might be something to this idea that consuming them enhances certain abilities in humans, but a restaurant exhibition style of consuming is distasteful in my opinion, no pun intended there.
In this manner of consumption, more ceremonious respect should be given to the octopus. I don't know if this makes it any better, as no matter how the process is done by us, it's still a horrifying way to go for any intelligent creature that knows it's being eaten.
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If we're going to eat another being, I think we have a moral obligation to see that their deaths are not painful. (No boiled lobster for me)