Who TF eats jellyfish?!?
this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Many parts in Asia, including Japan (mentioning this specifically because it's probably the easiest to find if you want to try). They are pretty delicious.
This is how they usually look btw. You can usually find them with different kinds of sauces depending on the cuisine it comes from. The texture is like a more chewy cross between scallop and octopus.
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Looks kinda good.
I don't think animals care about weird human ideologies like veganism
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No.
Holy shit this thread is full of dipshits that don't know anything about veganism. A bunch of even dumber fucks think plants are sentient or feel pain. You animal abuse apologist should actually take some time to understand why people are vegan.
Anyway OP, for this particular question you're going to find two vegan camps.
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Camp 1 - the majority of vegans - No brain. No conscious experience. Not sentient. There is no subject, so there is no one to grant rights to. You can eat jellyfish - but like every other vegan on the planet I'd ask why the fuck you want to eat then instead of literally anything else that's vegan. Then we remember that, it's just a gotcha question. Maybe focus on questions that seeks to reduce and reject the trillion+ other victims people not being vegan creates.
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Camp 2 - the minority of vegans - Isn't plant matter not vegan >:(
So some Asian cultures do eat jellyfish. Maybe this is a gotcha question or maybe it's just someone coming from a less eurocentric background.
Jellyfish are consumed as food in some parts of the world. I think the question may come from the fact that there's always some articles around about how jellyfish may be the food of the future, since they can be grown at sea (reducing land use) and don't require feed beyond algae, which is great from both an environmental and resource management perspective. I'm not sure it's entirely a cynical gotcha question :)
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It's really hard to know if any particular animal feels pain. There are also hundreds of kinds of jellyfish with a variety of levels of intelligence. Some vegans would tell you that just because the nature of their intelligence is alien to us doesn't mean it's less valuable. Personally I find it difficult to empathize with any creature that lacks a brain, especially plants.