Hi people, if you see this message I would have been dead. I am
a tiger prawn. I was breed in a farm together with my peers before
I was sold at the wholesale market.
With my peers, we were scooped up one find day, and transported to
a steamboat restaurant (somewhere in the east of Singapore) where
we were then released into a big tank.
Day by day, I watched my peers leave the tank. I knew exactly what
happened to each of them. I saw with my own eyes, a fate that will
soon befall me. I watched it happened everyday, but there's
absolutely nothing I can do about it. I am just a prawn in a tank
of prawns and there's no way to escape.
Every time a customer order live prawns, I watch some of my mates
get scooped out from the tank, a satay stick poked through the end
of its tail, extending all away into its head. It was painful, but
prawns don't scream. Worst, we don't die instantly, we were left on
a plate squirming from the pain, suffocating without water. If we
were lucky, pain will go away in 20 minutes as we lay helpless,
suffocating and squirming.
The unlucky ones will get dropped into a pot of boiling water. Then
we feel the excruciating pain from the skewer that runs from our
tail all the way into our head, suffocating from the lack of water
and the intense burning sensation from being dropped into a pot of
hot soup.
Perhaps it was an ingenious way of making sure the customer always
taste the freshest prawn. Its probably good money. Customers love
fresh seafood. But before you ever eat anything like this, imagine
that it was you on the skewer, dropped into a pot of boiling
water.
Oh yes, prawns, fishes and lobsters are cold blooded creature and
many argue that cold blooded creatures do not feel the pain so its
ok. Just because prawns are cold blooded creatures doesn't mean as
humans, you have to be cold blooded killers as well.
The next time if you see anything like this, please send the
correct message to the owners of the resturant by NOT eating
seafood killed cruelly.
