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This shit literally makes me want to cry.

Just don’t eat octopuses, please.

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> Just don’t eat octopuses, please.

I don't see any difference between this and, say, kill cows.

Also, the news piece sounds too desperate in it's attempt to appeal to an irrational emotional response. The author goes to the ridiculous extent of claiming that

"the operator intends to kill [octopuses] by submerging them, alive, in freezing water."

I mean, isn't "being alive" a key precondition to kill an animal?

Octopuses have demonstrated significantly more intelligence than cows. It's one reason why dolphins and apes aren't generally consumed.

- https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/octopuses-keep-surprising-us-... - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_intelligence

> Octopuses have demonstrated significantly more intelligence than cows.

I fail to see how this is has any relevance. The ethical or emotional argument of killing an animal does not depend on vague assertions over the problem-solving skills of said animal.

Meanwhile I feel your blend of arguments is terribly disingenuous for the way they avoid facing the fact that people eat animals in general and octopuses in particular.

Well, it's a typical dish in a Northwestern Spanish region, in Galicia, near Portugal. And as Galicia and Portugal share lots of culture, I think might eat octopi, too. Hard to tell to some people. Also, we are used to eat rabbits, too; something an American would see hard to understand, but I think the wild USA people eats lots of animals uncommon to us too. Maybe deers or something like that.

> Also, we are used to eat rabbits, too; something an American would see hard to understand

Rabbit can be found on many restaurant menus in the US and most major grocery stores have rabbit available for purchase.

I’ve never seen rabbit in a U.S. grocery store where I live, nor on the menu in any but some very ethnic Chinese restaurants.

Rabbit is usually in the frozen section where you also find duck. I currently live in Virginia but have lived in the south, northeast, and Midwest. Always been able to find rabbit in stores and on restaurant menus.

Out in the northwest, we don’t have duck in our grocery stores either. Maybe in the Chinese grocery stores, or Korean ones, but not in the standard run of the mill Americans ones. Our meat sections are kind of boring, and our frozen meat sections are minuscule. Actually, there is one item that actually contains rabbit meat that we can buy at our grocery store:

https://www.qfc.com/p/the-wild-bone-company-rabbit-bone-stew...

Rabbit jerky for dogs?

I make dishes with duck a few times a year and have done so for decades. When I have looked wherever I have lived I have been able to find it in the frozen specialty meat section of my local grocery store. Quite often rabbit either a full young rabbit or rabbit legs have been right by the duck. Frequently they are from D'ARTAGNAN. Usually it is duck breast and rabbit legs. If you weren't looking for them you would likely walk right passed them and not realize they were duck or rabbit.

I’m American and I have a hard time believing this. Many restaurant menus? Most major grocery stores? I don’t know where you live but this strikes me as bizarre.

Always been on some restaurant menus whereever in the country I have lived and been able to find it in the small specialty frozen meat sections many grocery stores have.

Ah, TIL. A lot of people in the US found that gross a few years ago.

This isn't something new in the last few years.

Used to? In Spain it is also common to eat rabbits (yes we also have them as pets). Is this not the norm in other countries??

Now that I think about it eating a species we also have as pets is strange...

Are used to != used to.

I'm not a native speaker, but shouldn't it be something like "are used to eating …" ?

You're absolutely correct.

It typically a traditional dish from those regions yes... but it is eaten all over Spain in very large quantities.

It depends; is not the usual dish you would get on weekends, but almost on special holydays or celebrations.

You convinced me. I will choose the Kosher two-weeks-old baby lamb instead.

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