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This is a pic of Bambi with a clip in his hair!Taipei - A Taiwan restaurant has been condemned by the public for serving fish whose body has been fried but its head still moves when the fish is served to diners, a newspaper reported Sunday.
The restaurant in Chiayi, central Taiwan, said it sent cooks to China's Sichuan province to learn how to prepare Yin Yang Yu, or dead-and-alive fish, and began to serve the dish in June, the United Daily News said.
But far from booming business, the creation has brought the restaurant only trouble, with animal-rights groups and members of the public condemning the restaurant for its cruelty to fish.
'This is shocking and disgusting. How can someone be so cruel? It's alright if you want to eat a fish, but do you need to put the fish to so much torture?' the paper quoted a source identified as Miss Chen as saying. Miss Chen urged the Chiayi City Government to ban the restaurant from serving 'dead-and-alive fish,' because though carp is not an endangered species, 'The restaurant is still being cruel to animals and shows no respect to life.' Another Chiayi resident, also named Chen, said that Taiwan should not follow the example of China, where 'dead-and-alive fish' is allowed to be served. 'I heard that Britain will ban cruelty to fish,' the second Chen said. 'We should learn from Britain.' Even Chiayi city authorities disapprove of serving the 'dead-and- alive fish.' One official, Huang Wen-hsien, called it inhuman to serve a fish while it is still alive. 'The fish's eyes stare at you when you're eating its meat. Do you have the heart to swallow its meat?' he asked. The restaurant manager, named Wang, defended the dish by saying that another dish known as 'shrimp cooked alive' is even more cruel because restaurant boil shrimp in glass bowls to allow customers to watch the crustaceans being boiled alive. My comments:
Don't you think this is simply inhuman, or to put it better
In-fish? How can anyone bear to cook anything alive?!
Especially when carp
As proven by professionals
Is a vertebrate, which means it has a smaller capacity for pain
Than invertebrates
And what hasn't been mentioned above
Is that these poor fish stay alive on the dining table for 30 mins
While it watches in absolute INTENSE pain
At the diners gouging its flesh out?
What's worse than knowing you're being eaten
Feeling that you're being eaten
And not being able to do anything to numb the pain
Or even die faster? To relieve everything?
CRUEL!!!!!!
LONDON - They rocked the world, but as the cleanup at nine climate change gigs around the globe begins, many wonder if the galaxy of pop stars did much to change it.
U.S. and British media were generally underwhelmed yesterday by Live Earth, the mega-concert organized by former U.S. vice-president and green campaigner Al Gore.
In Germany, however, newspapers were more upbeat about the gigs, designed to pressure leaders to sign a treaty by 2009 that would cut global warming pollution by 90 per cent.
Several articles examined the green credentials of the performers, including Madonna, whose annual "carbon footprint" was estimated at around 100 times the average person's.
The New York Times' online edition yesterday featured a small picture of the event and in Britain, only the Independent on Sunday made anything more than a fleeting reference on its front page.
U.S. comedian Chris Rock expressed the kind of disbelief shared by many that Live Earth would make a lasting difference, even if he was only joking: "I pray that this event ends global warming the same way that Live Aid ended world hunger," he said in London.
My comments:
As scarcely mentioned again, litter was abound at concert areas
All over the globe
And with the exception of Japan
All the audiences left thousands of plastic cups, newspapers, wrappers
Piling up over the floor
And didn't think once to pick any of them up
As footage showed many just simply hopping over huge piles of recyclable waste
To head towards the exit -.-
My question is simply this, "Has the Live Earth concert brought ANY, if at all, awareness to all those people ignorant about environmental protection? Or simply, given them a simple excuse to view performances by artistes for free?"
Although I have to concede
The Japanese really did the entire globe proud
Members of the audience immediately
Without ANY prompting
Surged forward to aid the cleaners in any way they can
And even members of the public who might not have attended the event
Helped to pick up EVERY SINGLE PIECE of litter
That was on the ground, without a single care of who threw it
And purely out of kindness and awareness on caring for the environment
The West should learn from them
Seriously
The concert, I would admit
Was an interesting concept to educate society
But, not pragmatic, and no one ever considered that
Done with rambling (:
And no offence, if any, that I've caused
Hope I get better at clarinet playing
I'm soooo demoralized now
Practice practice practice
Oh Mandy, you MUST practice!
Sigh