PETA Global Issue 2

The argest brains of all invertebrates

Eyes almost identical to those of humans

Paul McCartney: © MPL | Octopus Illustration: © iStock.com/berdsigns

Known to have figured out complex escape routes from tanks

TOO SUPER TO BE SUPPER

So dexterous that they have been known to unscrew lids on jars

10,000 more genes than humans

x 10,000

The chef said that after every last arm and leg had been cut off, he would rip open her mantle, tear out her intestines, and leave her to die.

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According to Dr. Jennifer Mather, an expert on cephalopods at the University of Lethbridge in Canada, “[T]he octopus, [whom] you’ve been chopping to pieces, is feeling pain every time you do it. It’s just as painful as if it were a hog, a fish, or a rabbit, if you chopped a rabbit’s leg off piece by piece. So it’s a barbaric thing to do to the animal.” Torn Apart and Steamed Alive Similar horrors are taking place at other restaurants in California and New York. These establishments cut the tails off live shrimp and plate them next to their moving bodies or tear off their protective exoskeletons so that diners can bite right into their flesh. Lobsters’ tails are also torn off, prepared “sashimi style,” and plated right next to their mutilated but still-living bodies, for diners’ amusement. Boiling these animals alive and ripping them apart causes them excruciating pain. According to Robert Elwood – an animal behavior scientist at Queens University, Belfast, who studies animals’ perception of pain – prawns, shrimp, and lobsters “show a high motivation to escape noxious stimuli, respond in ways that are conclusively not mere

reflexes, have strong physiological stress responses, show symptoms of anxiety after negative treatments, and have long-termmemory of negative experiences.”

Taking Mutilation off the Menu PETA is pushing lawmakers in California and New York to introduce and support

legislation to ban the practice of serving live animals. PETA has also

created a poignant video (watch it at PETA.org/FishEmpathy ) that was screened at its Fish Empathy Exhibit to promote compassion for aquatic animals.

Take Action Now Call T Equals Fish (213-380-3385) and Sik Gaek (718-205-4555) and urge them to stop serving octopuses and other animals alive.

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