Talk:Ikizukuri

Misinformation
Ikizukuri is not alive at the time of serving. You can't slice apart a fish or octopus and have it still be alive. The point is that the animal is very freshly killed, within minutes, and the still-moving post-death body parts are seen as proof of this freshness. The various links claiming the animal is served alive are 1. not credible (blogs aren't real sources); 2. prove the original statements on wikipedia wrong if anyone bothers to actually read the source. As stated, you can't cut a fish into parts, filet it, and then claim it's still alive. Moreover, ikizukuri is a Japanese word but this practice is widespread throughout Eastern Asia including China and Korea. Snakes are quite popular in China as they're cut lengthwise and then chopped -- and I'm sure you can imagine how the parts move is quite a spectacle to behold.71.227.174.90 (talk) 07:11, 26 February 2012 (UTC)


 * "still alive" and "still suffering" are not the same thing, and oddly, the former is no prerequisite for the latter. So we may let you have your pedantic definition of what "alive" means (as a professional biologist I know way to much about the topic to enter into a debate with an internet know it all), if we keep in mind that the point is about suffering and pain.2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:CCD:54E3:F81F:47AC (talk) 10:06, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

Jaydreams (talk) 01:18, 8 January 2016 (UTC)To comment on the above statement: the fact that many people practice something doesn't make it of any greater merit.

Misinformation above
Ikizukuri is the most cruel of food practices. A sick schadenfreude for sick minds. The above anonymous poster raises a good issue. Schadenfreude is the enjoyment of misfortune of others, or a German variant of sadism. Whilst the consciousness of the animal cannot be proven to have been lost and it is simply nerves reacting, the earlier IP poster's argument is invalid, as it is quite possible to 'cut a fish into parts, filet it,' and still have an animal live through the ordeal.
 * Jaydreams (talk)Don't post opinions, please.

I've noticed there seems to be a drastic sanitisation of these sorts of articles, and it's quite obvious that an agenda is being pushed. I am surprised we don't have animal rights activists pushing alternate agendas. However I feel that it would be logical to state that this practice amounts to sadism, enjoyment of suffering or death throes of an animal for amusement (albeit non-sexual, but sadism need not be sexual) and thus will add this to the article. BaSH PR0MPT (talk) 14:31, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

Misinformation?
The animal is definitely still alive. The filleting doesn't kill the fish, and it continues to gulp for air while on the plate. This is not the case for dismembered octupus, and so forth, but the fish is alive, and as the original edit of the article suggested, can be returned to the water to swim on for some time. For reference, I have eaten ikizukuri and the fish was gulping for air on the plate for more than 5 minutes. 124.170.79.93 (talk) 10:42, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Just because it's "gulping for air" does not mean it's alive. Dead things can still move after death. --Mr. Mario (talk) 05:07, 24 December 2015 (UTC)


 * the extinction of consciousness and the point of death are two different issues. The layman thinks of death as a precise point in time during which the metaphysical status of the being changes drastically and fundamentally. This is a mistake. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:CCD:54E3:F81F:47AC (talk) 10:09, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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under legality the page says "A Japanese family bought this dish to Canada, and the government agrees fish moving on a plate." what the hell does this mean? the citation for this is broken too... Scotty0214 (talk) 20:30, 13 December 2023 (UTC)