I found this to be very interesting and im surprised TL didn't make a thread yet.
BREAKING NEWS: Censortube has now officialy removed the video of Louis eating the goldfish and it is no longer avaliable to see. ANOTHER VIDEO OF LOUIS HAS ALSO BEEN REMOVED NOW., A VIDEO OF HIM EATING A TARANTULA.
A guy called Louis Cole ''foodforlouis'' @ Youtube is possibly gonna go to jail or have to pay 20k pounds for eating a live goldfish in one of his youtube videos. RSCPA is accusing him of animal cruelty and causing unneccessary pain to the goldfish. The video has already gathered over 1000 dislikes and hundreds of comments calling him a ''sick cruel bastard''.
The main reason people are going crazy over it, atleast in the video comments, is because he says early in the video that the fish is his pet, but it's an april fools and he says the fish isn't his pet at 2:39 in the video.
Louis has eaten alot of disgusting things, including raw pigs eyeballs, blended raw bulls testicle(and a solid one), blended mice (No, the mice weren't alive when he blended them) and live tarantulas and put it on youtube, but none of those animals we're against the law to eat alive.
Here's the full article on the matter.(I'm not gonna post all its text here because there is alot of pictures in the article so it's better to just go read it)
Anyway, discuss what you think about this, do you think it was very cruel? Should he be put in prison?
Heres a quote from the article i linked, it's the first top lines: RSPCA launch cruelty probe after man eats goldfish alive in shocking YouTube stunt
Online video of the pet being eaten by Louis Cole has been watched by more than 120,000 people Previous stunts include eating a live tarantula, a scorpion and 10 ground up dead mice RSPCA describe the attention grabbing videos as 'gratuitously cruel'
For those who wanna see the actual video, here it is:
how is that cruelty? what if you went fishing then just ate a fish, is that cruelty too? well if it is, then there should be many other people paying fines or going to jail =/
(I mean yea that is mean to the fish, but really it's a fish, how is that a crime to humanity that he should go to jail?)
My father has a pond with goldfish in it, they occasionally die because of temperature differences or because of being eaten by a bird. (all preventable) I'm pretty sure all such things cause tremendous stress and suffering to goldfish, but nobody cares, since my father doesn't actively cause it himself and well, goldfish are barely sentient as it is.
i.e. this is tasteless, but not a big deal, I think. It would be different depending on the animal though, if he ate a live ant nobody would notice, but if it was a live pigeon (how does that work?) people would be in shock. A goldfish is just in between.
What's next, you step on an ant and are sent to jail? This is complete bullshit, obviously. Animals are murdered in the most cruel ways for fast food industry's. Almost nobody gives a shit. Why didn't anyone care when he ate the live tarantula? This is idiotic.
On April 23 2012 18:23 Recognizable wrote: What's next, you step on an ant and are sent to jail? This is complete bullshit, obviously. Animals are murdered in the most cruel ways for fast food industry's. Almost nobody gives a shit.
Exactly my thoughts. Over sensetive and stupid, besides, he bit it's head off so the goldfish died in like 1-2 seconds :/.
I am completely behind this. I find eating any animal when it's still alive, or the torture of animals for your own amusement completely disgusting. I don't consider myself particularly oversensitive but I hope this guy gets his just deserts.
Where do you draw the line when it comes to eating things alive? You're allowed to eat a goldfish alive but not a cat or a dog? They are considered pets and you couldn't say "it's just a goldfish, after all" and then say it's not OK to consume a dog when it's alive, because then I say to you, it's just a dog, after all.
I think he should get jail time and get fined for animal cruelty.
I didn't watch the video, but how is this in any way more significantly cruel than eating a goldfish that is already dead? All the meat products we eat involve killing, is killing a goldfish by chewing it any more or less humane than a cow getting butchered at the slaughterhouse?
On April 23 2012 18:24 SolHeiM wrote: I am completely behind this. I find eating any animal when it's still alive, or the torture of animals for your own amusement completely disgusting. I don't consider myself particularly oversensitive but I hope this guy gets his just deserts.
Where do you draw the line when it comes to eating things alive? You're allowed to eat a goldfish alive but not a cat or a dog? They are considered pets and you couldn't say "it's just a goldfish, after all" and then say it's not OK to consume a dog when it's alive, because then I say to you, it's just a dog, after all.
I think he should get jail time and get fined for animal cruelty.
A gold fish brain is smaller then the size of the diameter of the nail of your lilfinger(In nature science class I saw this when we dissected goldfish'). Their memory is approximately capable of 3 months. Sources : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfish
This is ridiculous. Animal cruelty is surely an issue that needs resolution, but how can you say eating a goldfish is cruel? There are two reasons I see no problem with eating a live goldfish:
1) Eating a goldfish is a source of nourishment. Whether it is cooked or alive how can someone go to jail for eating something that is commonly sold as a feeding fish? How is the act of eating a goldfish any different from killing a live fish then eating it? And if you want to say it is because it was cruel then how do you define cruel? Bashing fishheads as food prep is also cruel.
2) If goldfish are considered worthy of being protected from cruelty, then all is lost. We should shut down the cruelty that occurs from our major poultry and red meat sources. Should we move along the animal hierarchy and say killing flies/ants is an arrestable offense? No we shouldn't, and if we want to protect goldfish then we should also protect cattle and chickens.
On April 23 2012 18:24 SolHeiM wrote: I am completely behind this. I find eating any animal when it's still alive, or the torture of animals for your own amusement completely disgusting. I don't consider myself particularly oversensitive but I hope this guy gets his just deserts.
Where do you draw the line when it comes to eating things alive? You're allowed to eat a goldfish alive but not a cat or a dog? They are considered pets and you couldn't say "it's just a goldfish, after all" and then say it's not OK to consume a dog when it's alive, because then I say to you, it's just a dog, after all.
I think he should get jail time and get fined for animal cruelty.
Interesting choice of words O.o
Anyways... Reading through the list of things this guy has eaten including live scorpions and a turkey leg infested with maggots, I'm wondering if theres something wrong with him. I'm pretty sure even in cultures where eating strange stuff (strange to most westerners anyway) is the norm, they usually don't go eating live scorpions and shit...
Edit - Although I very much think that jail or a 20k punishment is WAY over the top. He's basically a Youtube attention seeker who does something a bit wacky... I don't think fining him that much is appropriate. People who cause deaths get fined less ffs.
Edit 2 - Forgot to mention he blended 10 mice into a paste and chugged that down too. O.o
On April 23 2012 18:27 Praetorial wrote: You should add to the OP the fact that he has certainly done a number of disgusting things, like eating eyeballs raw.
Personally, I find his videos disgusting and distasteful, but how on earth the RSPCA sees that as justification to arrest someone is beyond me.
Don't forget the raw bull testicle he ate and the other raw bull testicle that he blended and drank.
On April 23 2012 18:24 SolHeiM wrote: I am completely behind this. I find eating any animal when it's still alive, or the torture of animals for your own amusement completely disgusting. I don't consider myself particularly oversensitive but I hope this guy gets his just deserts.
Where do you draw the line when it comes to eating things alive? You're allowed to eat a goldfish alive but not a cat or a dog? They are considered pets and you couldn't say "it's just a goldfish, after all" and then say it's not OK to consume a dog when it's alive, because then I say to you, it's just a dog, after all.
I think he should get jail time and get fined for animal cruelty.
Interesting choice of words O.o
Anyways... Reading through the list of things this guy has eaten including live scorpions and a turkey leg infested with maggots, I'm wondering if theres something wrong with him mentally. I'm pretty sure even in cultures where eating strange stuff (strange to most westerners anyway) is the norm, they usually don't go eating live scorpions and shit...
He gets famous by doing it and his friends laugh at him while he consumes all the disgusting things. He also sees it as a challenge and feels it as an achievement when he has succeeded in eating the stuff, no hes not mentally ill. if you watch his videos he seems like an awesome and funny person.
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