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[Amphigorey]

I'm totally with you both on the seafood* front. I used to work as a docent at an aquarium, and I was very attached to the fish; I can hardly imagine how people can eat them. They're so beautiful.

Also, anyone who says fish don't have personalities hasn't spent enough time with them. There's a sturgeon at the aquarium who likes belly rubs. Seriously - I've seen him approach the divers and turn on his side to encourage it.

Oh, and last time I was at the Monterey aquarium, I saw one of the wolf eels swim right up to a diver, who hugged it and scratched it under its chin. I nearly died of cute.

*Incidentally, for those of you who do eat seafood, check out Monterey Bay's Seafood Watch list. It's really useful for keeping track of what seafood is good to eat and what isn't. Some seafood is very environmentally destructive (farmed salmon, I'm looking at YOU), but there's still plenty out there that's safe. Generally you want stuff that's from the United States, not imported, because we have better regulations, and whether you want farmed or wild-caught depends on the species.

Anyway, Monterey has produced these handy little guides you can order or print out to take with you, and they've even divided them by region. http://www.mbayaq.org/cr/SeafoodWatch.asp

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Mmmmmmmm Rubio's fish tacos!!!




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[lady ulrike]

and I think even more disturbing than the pick your own lobster but the Coral Reef at the Seas in EPCOT totally freaks me out. Ask for a window table, they say, so you can watch the friends of your dinner swimming around you while you dine on their buddies??? that's just wrong.

When my husband and I ate there, we had a window table and made sure first that none of the fish on the menu were ones that were listed as being in the tank. Cause we certainly weren't going to eat, for example, a trout if there were trout swimming around in there.

[February]

The two times I ate at Coral Reef the food was so disgusting anyway that we couldn't eat much of it.

The best thing was the peanut butter play-doh dessert, but it was happily seafood free. Esp. since they did the whole pavilion over with Nemo characters, there is no way I could eat there now regardless of who is swimming in that tank LOL

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

When my husband and I ate there, we had a window table and made sure first that none of the fish on the menu were ones that were listed as being in the tank. Cause we certainly weren't going to eat, for example, a trout if there were trout swimming around in there.

Hmmm, we made reservations to dine there for the first time.

Have to order something beef!!!


hehehehe

[EeyoresButterfly]

Don't get me wrong, I love seafood! Crab is my favorite, I also eat Salmon (only wild, the farmed stuff has many issues) and I like lobster if it's in something. I just prefer not to see it while it is still alive or remotely resembling its live form. I hate when you got the store and they sell the whole fish complete with eyes. My food should not look at me! I used to be the sample girl at a grocery store and whenever I had meat samples I was stationed by the lobster tank. When it got slow, I would stand there and watch the social interactions of the lobsters, it was kind of fun.

[BRWombat]

I've heard this attributed to Ellen Degeneres: "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner."

[ktulu]

I could totally eat something while watching it's friend swim/run around. It would be fun to look into the tank and be like, I want that one, and they fish it out, cook and serve :D:

[Mayonnaise]

When I was younger, I used to hate to eat something if there was a living one around... and I could never eat lobster as a result, because they had you pick one. But I dated a Vegan for four months my Junior Year of College, and came to the conclusion that if I was going to continue eating meat, I needed to face the fact that every time I do, something dies, and make peace with that. So I don;t have that trouble anymore. Yes something has to be killed to be on my plate, but that's the cycle of life for those of us who aren't herbivores. I know it sounds cold, but I see it more as owning my responsibility for the death of my dinner.

8^)

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

When I was younger, I used to hate to eat something if there was a living one around... and I could never eat lobster as a result, because they had you pick one. But I dated a Vegan for four months my Junior Year of College, and came to the conclusion that if I was going to continue eating meat, I needed to face the fact that every time I do, something dies, and make peace with that. So I don;t have that trouble anymore. Yes something has to be killed to be on my plate, but that's the cycle of life for those of us who aren't herbivores. I know it sounds cold, but I see it more as owning my responsibility for the death of my dinner.

8^)

Like I said before, its a circle of life thing!

Mmmmmm seafood!