Right or wrong?

[andy-hughes]

This man has been sevrely criticised for pulling an octopus out of the sea and taking it home to eat.

Some people appear to object because the octupus is a speceis known for its intelligence - measured to be on a par with pet dogs.

What's your feeling?

Outrage as diver, 20, drags LIVE octopus from ocean and takes it home for dinner

[jd_1984]

But cows are stupid..... Eating Steak is fine!!!

[jackthehat]

I think, if the story is as has been reported, that it's a lot of fuss about nothing. Octopus is eaten in many parts of the world.

[ummmm]

I've eaten octopus.

[Ratty2E]

The links not working but assuming he didn't cause the octopus any unnecessary suffering then what's the problem. People kill and eat octopus and dogs for that matter somewhere in the world, all the time.

[AB Editor]

Absolutely fine, surely?! Unless it is a particular and rare breed of octopus - in which case I wish I'd beaten him to it!

Jd, Kurt Cobain once sung the line "It's okay to eat fish because they don't have any feelings". I'm just suggesting that cows are probably only twice as intelligent as a goldfish?

[mazie]

Here's the link

http://www.dailymail....akes-home-dinner.html

[AB Editor]

Also, if I were just to read the headline, it sounds like a forced dinner-date with an octopus rather than necessarily eating it.

[friedgreentomato]

I have eaten octopus loads of time - I think the objection to this is he did not kill it humanely - just dumped it in the back of the truck and left it to die slowly.

[andy-hughes]

Interesting - I expected the first half-cozen posts to be from outraged animal rights supporters - but so far none have come in on the thread.

For the record, I tend to agree with the majority of posters thus far - all this man has done is fished an octopus. It might have been kinder to humanely kill it before he drove off, but it has suffered no worse a fate than millions of fish caught daily, and a far kinder one than millions of cattle sheep and pigs.

[jackthehat]

Perhaps Dylan Mayer wants a 'heads-up' on any forthcoming football scores?

[naomi24]

Speaking as a member of the diving community, I think the problem is that they are (in the main) committed to protecting the enviroment they invade for their pleasure. They don't willfully damage it or plunder it.

By the way, I've eaten octopus too.

[andy-hughes]

I was writing my post as friendgreentomato was posting - seems we agree on the humane killing aspect.

[jackthehat]

How do you humanely kill an octopus?

Which bit do you squeeze to strangle it? Bashing it on the head until it is dead is a bit 'hit and miss', too......

[AB Editor]

Death by tempura is meant to be pretty humane I hear...

[andy-hughes]

Jack - the South Sea Islanders who fish them bite them just above the mouth (beak) and this apparently kills them instantly. Not sure a European would be up for that sort of activity though!

[ChuckFickens]

Apparently, you kill them by making a large cut at the base of the head and then turning the head inside-out!

[jackthehat]

I'm not sure that sounds terribly humane, either, chuck.........LoL

[B00]

As you've touched upon Andy, the only problem I had with this story was that it was not killed immediately, rather flung on his truck still alive and killed (I shudder to think how) later.

[jackthehat]

I imagine it would have 'air-suffocated' long before it got to it's final destination.

[B00]

Yeah possibly Jack, still a 'orrible way to go