Friday, July 13, 2007
Something's rotten in the Banana Republics of the world
I heard the news today oh boy as the song goes. Well, actually it's the news that I have heard this week. First of all I have to share with you a story about the latest Chinese craze: Fish being deep-fried alive. Although the Scottish cuisine consists of deep frying stuff, and if they haven't got anything to deep fry, they just deep fry their pants or simply the batter alone in clumps...
OK, way off course now, as sometimes happens to me.
So, the Chinese are now deep frying carp ALIVE! The poor animal is deep fried except for the head and then served on a plate lathered in sweet and sour sauce, gasping for air and twitching in deep fried pain while the "eater" attacks the poor thing with chopsticks.
Seriously, what is wrong with people who enjoy this type of cuisine? I mean, I like meat as much as the next person, but I make sure my meat has been treated humanely in life and fuerthermore, killed quickly before it's cooked.
But it's not just the Chinese who do evil things to their food. It is well known that people all over the world boil lobster alive. Apparently it's supposed to taste better after being tortured to death. Now, I think that people that do this should just try putting their hands into a pot filled with water and slowly bring it to boil. You know just to see how good it feels.
I am very happy to say that on my rock we sell our lobsters dead as doornails- and they haven't been boiled alive. So call me a hypocrite for eating meat, but at least I don't torture my food. Btw, the blue lobster you are looking at was born in 1980 and lives in St Andrews. You may been asking yourself why it's a blue lobster? Well, if boiled it will become red- just like your hands when you burn yourself; then you too will become red.
Which brings me to my next topic in the complaint corner: Rio Tinto.
Alcan, which has been polluting the air I breathe for years, has just been bought by Rio Tinto, the Australian aluminium giant. It's really amazing how these corporations carry on while the average Icelander goes on with his life and pretends everything is A- OK.
Rio Tinto is a corporation that is responsible for all kinds of nasty things; to name only one: they triggered a civil war in Papua New Guinea, not to mention their ever so tainted image when it comes to human rights such as upholding a sort of apartheid in the same place with different facilities for different races of people.
Now, doesn't it sound nice that Rio Tinto has become an addition to the Lets-destroy-the-nature-in-Iceland flora?
This brings me to my last point; the cops are on alert in Iceland today. Can you believe that there are foreign (translates dangerous and have no business here) protesters in Iceland this summer. These people actually care about the destruction of Europe's biggest "unspoilt" wilderness. They are thereby considered to be extremely dangerous people- some of them even have dreadlocks, which seems to be very offensive to the Iceland bourgeoisie- how dare they! Bloody foreign hippie scum!
The aluminium companies seem to be terrified of these people and are now hiring extra watchmen and women to their Isengard/Barad Dur poison spewing towers. They are encouraging women to apply for the jobs, got to keep up the politically correct images ay?
I heard a story of a woman who decided to apply for a watchdog position but when she was asked questions about her menstrual cycle (apparently very important when battling against fierce protesters?!)- well, she decided not to take the job, or so the story goes.
Not such a good week in news for me- better just continue listening to Bob Marley and hope that if we all get together "it will be alright".
# posted by Björkin : 3:05 PM
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Whoa, that reminds me of my time in Japan, where one way of proving the freshness of sashimi (= raw fish, cut into strips; often referred to as 'sushi' by the ignorant) to customers in restaurants can be to serve the still twitching skeleton + head of the fish alongside the sashimi, where the meat's been cut off while the lamentable creature was still alive as well. I also saw a cooking programme on TV once where the chef grabbed a live squid and started cutting its still-wiggling tentacles into bite-sized bits... Kinda spoilt my appetite...
Oh, I forgot to mention that in the Japanese case, the fish is actually dead once you start eating it - it's just nerves that continue twitching a little while after it's been cut up alive. Just to make sure we've got that clear...
Naturally!
Any way you look at it- freshness is not always key.
Besides, aren't people saying now that brutally murdered meat is filled with stress hormones etc?
Can't bloody well be good for you...
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Any way you look at it- freshness is not always key.
Besides, aren't people saying now that brutally murdered meat is filled with stress hormones etc?
Can't bloody well be good for you...
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