{"id":750932,"date":"2018-01-12T15:04:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arkcenter.us\/?p=750932"},"modified":"2018-01-12T15:04:19","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T15:04:19","slug":"canadian-restaurants-caught-mutilating-and-serving-live-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=750932","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Restaurants Caught Mutilating and Serving Live Animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PETA:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;On the heels of groundbreaking investigations into restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles that serve live animals, PETA has revealed that live octopuses and other sea animals are also being butchered and served to diners in Canadian restaurants&#8230; A PETA observer went inside Marado Sushi, where she watched as an octopus was pulled from a tank, tossed onto a cutting board, pinned down, and mutilated. The chef started at the tip of each arm and leg and worked his way up, chopping off section after section, before finally dicing up the octopus\u2019s head. The limbs were served still writhing, in a dish called &#8220;sannakji&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>When it comes to experiencing pain, the science is clear: As cephalopod expert Dr. Jennifer Mather explains, octopuses \u201ccan anticipate a painful, difficult, stressful situation\u2014they can remember it. There is absolutely no doubt that they feel pain.\u201d Octopuses are so intelligent that they\u2019re often referred to as \u201cprimates of the sea,\u201d and like orangutans and chimpanzees, they use tools. They\u2019ve been observed carrying coconut shells to assemble later as housing and stockpiling rocks to fix gaps in their dens. In captivity, octopuses have been known to open childproof jars, play with Mr. Potato Head dolls and Legos, deliberately short-circuit bright lights, and make daring escapes after determining that no one was watching&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/investigations.peta.org\/canadian-restaurants-serving-live-animals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iTgINIW8juc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA: &#8216;On the heels of groundbreaking investigations into restaurants in New York City and Los Angeles that serve live animals, PETA has revealed that live octopuses and other sea animals are also being butchered and served to diners in Canadian restaurants&#8230; A PETA observer went inside Marado Sushi, where she watched as an octopus was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,25],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-750932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-welfare","tag-cruelty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=750932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750934,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750932\/revisions\/750934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/750933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=750932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=750932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=750932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}