PETA has complained that two New York restaurants are serving live octopus in their san-nakji dishes.PETA says restaurants Sik Gaek and East Seafood Restaurant have been serving san-nakji, without properly killing the octopus.
The group has been picketing (unfortunately, not in an octopus costume) and sent letters to the district attorney's office in the city's Queens borough seeking animal cruelty charges against the businesses.
San-nakji is primarily a Korean delicacy, prepared by chopping the tentacles into small pieces that continue to writhe while being served with garlic and jalapeno peppers.
Chefs who prear san-nakji say the tentacles keep moving because they are served quickly after the animal is killed by having its head split open and its brain removed.
Tim Carpenter, curator of fish and invertebrates at the Seattle Aquarium in Seattle, said the tentacles continue to move due to nerve activity.
"There is a lot of nerve activity that occurs in an octopus' tentacles. It doesn't matter if it's dead or alive," he said.
We have a video recorded of a birthday party,
recorded at the Wassada restaurant, koreatown, Los Angeles.
377 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA
The group has been picketing (unfortunately, not in an octopus costume) and sent letters to the district attorney's office in the city's Queens borough seeking animal cruelty charges against the businesses.
San-nakji is primarily a Korean delicacy, prepared by chopping the tentacles into small pieces that continue to writhe while being served with garlic and jalapeno peppers.
Chefs who prear san-nakji say the tentacles keep moving because they are served quickly after the animal is killed by having its head split open and its brain removed.
Tim Carpenter, curator of fish and invertebrates at the Seattle Aquarium in Seattle, said the tentacles continue to move due to nerve activity.
"There is a lot of nerve activity that occurs in an octopus' tentacles. It doesn't matter if it's dead or alive," he said.
We have a video recorded of a birthday party,
recorded at the Wassada restaurant, koreatown, Los Angeles.
377 N Western Ave
Los Angeles, CA
