RE: Rats: Do They Have a Good Side?

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.