Why We Eat Oysters Alive
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Raw oysters are either still alive - or freshly killed - when you eat them. Most people think keeping them alive longer makes them safer to eat, but that's not the full story.
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Following is a transcript of the video:
Raw oysters are either still alive - or freshly killed - when you eat them. Most people think keeping them alive longer makes them safer to eat, but that's not the full story. Oyster expert Julie Qiu explains.
Following is the transcript of the video.
David Anderson: "Wanna know a secret? This oyster I'm about to eat could still be alive! So, why do we do this?"
Most people think it's a food safety issue. Keep the oyster alive as long as possible, to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination. And there is a little bit of truth to that. Oysters can carry a scary flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio vulnificus. You can get it from oysters or from swimming in warm brackish water. But let's put that into perspective.
Julie Qiu: "The risk of running into a bad oyster is lower than people think it is. My biggest pet peeve is that people go crazy over one bad oyster but they don't really care that hundreds of thousands of pounds of lettuce are contaminated with salmonella"
About 100 people die from vibrio infections (including from vibrio vulnificus) each year, about 450 die from salmonella. Plus, the FDA requires that oyster farms have to test water quality before sending oysters out to markets and restaurants. And that's important, because oysters are filter feeders. They soak up basically anything that's in the water around them - including fecal matter which can come from rain runoff.
But there’s a clever way to check if your oysters are good.
Julie Qiu: "one thing that you can ask for is a shellfish tag, which every retailer or restaurant is required to have for every bag of oysters that they purchase for up to 90 days after they make that purchase. So that tag, if they don't have it, don't eat those oysters."
This tag is a way for restaurants to track where and when their oysters were farmed. Qiu says that she looks for the most recent dates on the tag. Anything further out than two weeks won't taste as good and increases the risk of a bad oyster.
Some chefs may look at you funny for asking for the documentation, but it's a strategy that apparently works.
Julie Qiu: "I've had thousands of oysters and never had a bad one"
Ok great, so basically, oysters are safe, why on earth are they sometimes alive when we eat them??
Julie Qiu: "You really want your raw shellfish to be really fresh and the freshest you can get is something that is recently killed, so it goes back to not only the food safety but the actual taste and texture is going to be far superior when it's a fresh oyster."
So yeah, freshly killed oysters taste better. And it's hard to tell exactly when an oyster dies, because before it's served, it's shucked. It's not a gentle process. Shucking involves separating the oyster’s abductor muscle from the shell. This muscle gives the oyster control over opening and closing its shell. Similar to how your spinal cord helps you move. So, severing the their abductor muscle is almost like severing your spine. Yikes.
Most restaurants in the US keep their oysters alive - on ice - up until this shucking process, which afterwards, either leaves the oyster dead, or immobile. Since they don’t move around much in the first place, it's not easy to tell which.
So you're eating an oyster that was either just killed or is dying. And that seems pretty cruel, right? But considering that the oyster's biology is very primitive, it's possible they might not even feel pain at all.
Julie Qiu: "They don't have a brain, they're not really processing pain the same way the same way we are feeling so I don't think they're feeling pain the same way we are thinking of it."
So really, it's up to you. If you don't want to eat oysters, that's fine. If you do, you'll be far from the first.
Julie Qiu: "It's one of the few foods that have not changed for thousands and thousands of years so being able to appreciate that is something that's really special and remarkable and something that should be celebrated for what it is."
One day, oysters are gonna rise up and rip our spines out
I wouldn't mind if I tasted that good. I'm pretty sure I'm a filter feeder, too, but I feel like I would be worth maybe like one one-thousandth my weight in oysters.
One day my ass, they are gonna have to wait a while till they can even get to our size, possibly a few million years.
They're going to fry our skins
Just A Profile ...and slurp our insides out
Oyster apocalypse
I don’t even like oysters why am i here
UA-cam's Algorithm 🤷🏾♂️
Exactly 💀
Same, i love many shellfish except oysters and a few more.
Yet, we met here
I dont even like seafood yet here iam
Agree Genie, it is not for me.
“More people die from salmonella than vibrio each year” I’m pretty sure lettuce is also eaten more often and by more people than oysters.
I neveer eat a oyster and i lovee seafod fish even salmon here soo expensive have notion a lbs is 20$$ in dolars i lice in south americaa
Goat meat never tried too some japanese foids just temaki and sushi love both soo much its like a year since dont eat japanese temaki or sushi if had more money would eat at least once a week all this rich celebrity foods i cant buy even is normal and regular people eat on usaa europe im from brazil poor country that 60% population is poor or miserable even brazil is 10th econimic COUNTRY on world just fakee phrase to world see but here 60% population are poor imagine is like 100 million poor people??
I lovee usaa one my drwams is visit one day
😴
@@guiilost9827 The U.S appears to be a rich country, but the division between rich and poor is great. Most immigrants have it very tough(immigrants with a lot of money have it fine) and depending on where they come from face a lot of prejudice.
I think that’s the point though. Since lettuce and eggs are staples in most of our diets, we’re probably more likely to get infected by salmonella then we would if we were to eat an oyster once in a while. I even know of a friend recently who got food poisoning from chicken. Salmonella infections can be common and dangerous.
@@crystala7x182 The likelihood of food poisoning from lettuce vs. raw oysters, as well as the deadliness of the illnesses themselves should be taken into account.
I thought the same thing, isnt this supposed to be a science chanel? They should really hold themselves to a higher standard when making statical conclusions
Oyster expert... what do I have to do in order to specialize on something so specific.
What?
Idk
Google it. As if we know. That's why we are watching the video
Eat 7000 oysters
rokas grebliunas lol
"You wanna know a secret?" "This oyster that I'm about to eat, could still be *ALIVE!!!* "
* *_absorbs oyster_* *
lol
Could?? I thought they definitely are all alive.
It's also full of poop!
You wanna know a BIGGER secret? He believes HE is the one in control now.. muahaha. Consume more my friend, consume.. soon shall the hive mind awaken then your body will be ours. - This is why I'm a vegetarian, not many hostile parasitic organisms on a baked blade of grass.
@@humane143imperfection6 tons of worms and other parasites on veggies like strawberries and lettuce. Humans have evolved to ingest some levels of parasites for millennia
.... You know she did it and had no remorse 4:10
Timothy Green Wetter than fresh paint
She talked like a serial killer .
Imagine the smell of that 😂😂😂😂
What happens when you eat alot of beans 4:10
You can read it into her eyes.
I never ate an oyster before but this seems really important to me and I have no idea why.
Same
Its important to know that your seafood is fresh, old seafood is one of the worst ways to get sick. You don't just get a stomach ache, your food is almost guaranteed to come back up
Same here. Now I never will
Same dude
It's really good.
Peta: * heavy breathing *
See what lois has to go through everyday!?
oysters aren't sentient so..
They don't have feeling
Also Peta: let’s save the Oysters and kill them afterwards! This is the only way animals can have dignity!
Also peta: *gasses 17 kittens*
I've never had a oyster in my life
Like most people
its disgusting
They taste kinda gross I prefer clams
You haven't really missed out on anything
@@jumiangel739 no u
So the answer is: something that is freshly killed tastes better than something old? Really. I had no idea.
I sense your sarcasm but freshly killed red meat, such as beef, venison and buffalo are way more flavorful and tender if they are aged in a cooler for 2 week.
Only seafood
@Nick Talleyrand ;)
@@valholladay2116 That's because modern supply chain typically cannot deliver the meet before rigor mortis, which happens only a few hours after death. Red meat that was literally just killed taste pretty good too.
Nick Talleyrand sometimes it depends on the chef
The worse food poisoning of my life came from a raw oyster. And it hit me 36 hours after eating it. Vomiting for 7 hours and physically ill for 2 weeks.
Damn and i wanna try it
@@mcintoka lol
Where did you get the oysters?
Crystal I was in South France, near Bordeaux
@@LeDebutDeLaSuite Thanks for answering. I was curious to see if you were inland vs. close to the ocean or such. I’m so sorry that happened to you 😩
Why is this reminded me of mr. Bean? You know, the one when he's at a hotel craving for dinner and the one in mr. Bean's holiday
Scampi!
Same.
same
That French restaurant scene was hilarious 😂😂
The one which he vomited 😂😂
The video: explain the science of serving oyster as food
My brain: _Mr. Bean_
Ye
Oh yeah instantly 😂
That is good video
Same 😂😂😂
SAME HERE
This is what the government doesn’t want us to know
kremit the frog
Yes so because they want money
Yea
r i s e u p
The truth about alien vaginas aswelll
You mean restaurant?
Thanks Kermit
When I was teaching English in Japan, we had a lesson on food that included a discussion question about food poisoning. So I heard hundreds of food poisoning stories over the years, and 2/3 were about raw oysters. And this is in a country where people eat anything raw. I don't doubt the video that oysters aren't usually deadly, but they can definitely cause you to have a bad day.
I don't understand why people can slam down raw oyster but shun Fugu. The only people that die each year from Fugu poisoning are the one that purposely eat the poison. Yet vibrio kills 100 people just in the US(He failed that part when comparing in the video).
* They don’t have a brain *
Oysters: No u
And I took that personally.
Those feisty oysters again.
They didn't say that
* eats oyster *
4:10 did she just fart?
😂
Wrong !!! She sharted!
😂😂😂
ew
@Mahmood K4 true😂😂
But people eat more lettuce than oysters...
Robert Hernandez Umm stats please?
But they're both a kilogramme لكن كلاهما كيلوغرام
Robert Hernandez what?
I don't know what planet you live on, but on Earth a heck of a lot more lettuce is eaten than oyters. Oyters are a specialist, treat like food. Lettuce is practically a staple food.
exactly
That vibrio vs salmonella stat has to be misleading right? Dont people eat way way way more potential sources of salmonella?
TheSuperNort
the Stats showed “deaths from salmonella” salmonella is curable
Vibriosis is also "curable"(in truth you just live and you get cured from it but whatever. Same with salmonella), only 15-30% of cases result in death.
Even oysters are a potential source of salmonella.
I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure that the chances of getting salmonella from chicken are way greater 🤔
@Defqon or is it
I got food poisoning from eating raw oysters twice from 5-star hotels in Hong Kong. So did my companions proving it wasn’t just one bad oyster but the whole lot was contaminated. Theory: the water used to keep the oysters alive before serving by the hotels or suppliers were contaminated.
I mean its Hong Kong. Completely overrun by Mainlanders.
Considering their proximity to Mainland china, I wouldn't touch the oysters.
I don't eat oysters why am I watching this
HoLy WaTeR because deep down you want to eat oysters
Snot in a shell? No thanks
HoLy WaTeR fr it's like eating a porcupines throw yp
Cause you just go thru the comments and just asking for likes
Same
Reminded me of that Mr Bean episode
The one in the hotel?
Haha I love Mr bean
Which?
Same
Yes room no. 24 i guess that's the name of the episode
Scientific approach really needs scientific facts... Abductor muscle is just a muscle and it's not like cutting a spine (skeletal part + spinal cord which is a part of the central nervous system) where if you cut spine in half you kill a person for damaging the spinal cord. When you open clams you just scrape the muscles and not even cut them, that's like giving a wound to yourself = you won't die. So the process of opening is not so deadly as this video portrays it. And also the absence of brain (organ present in chordates) doesn't mean the absence of nervous system! That means that they don't process pain like we do but doesn't mean they can't "feel" anything, brain or ganglium (organ that they have) have the same purpose! I'm not here trying to raise awareness of not eating clams, for what I'm concerned have at it, but wanted to point out the faults in scientific information present in a video of channel that has Science in it.
Well said. Also I did a quick google on this "Oyster Expert" and found out that she is just a blogger and a self proclaimed expert on this topic without any scientific background whatsoever. "Food that remained unchanged for thousands of years should be celebrated.", is a really bad excuse for eating something that IS ALIVE and has a working nervous system but that's just my opinion of course.
@@balthasarrasahtlab8872 Nice Nancy Drewing! I was a bit taken with lack of facts so I did't even think about googling her. Sad that people use term "scientific" so loosely and widely nowdays...
The fact that at least 3.5k people care more about the comment "I've never had a oyster in my life", over actual facts is the reason why we can't stop global warming.
Even if they did have the specific kind of nerves to feel pain, they can't suffer, there's no emotional component to the pain. As an analogy this can happen in humans with certain disorders or brain damage to certain parts of the brain. They can recognize that they're in pain but it's not distressing to them i.e it's just a recognition of sensory information.
+the Whaler
You understand that the same claim could be made by aliens about us?
"Other than some grotesque gestures with the muscles near their eyes, and a weird sonic vibration from the esophagus chord, which probably signifies the species last grasp for nutrients, or provides a primitive alert for others, the fatally probed human specimens seem to recognize the pain, but clearly don't go through much distress. This is probably because they don't have two central nervous systems, but just one, and even if they did have the specific kind of nerves to feel the pain, rest assured it's nothing like we can feel, because when we feel pain it's soooo painful, yesterday I pinched my brachemio pod between my pincers, and I was in soo much pain. Oh. My. God. Anyways, we should celebrate that our food source didn't evolve into something that could give us any moral dilemmas. Fuyerasdkje, how many I had of them so far? Six, like, seven thousands? Yep, so, clearly nothing's going on, whether alive or dead, it's all the same to them, as soon as you cut them up, just ignore the stupid sounds they make, and you're fine. I mean it's just a noise, and not like telepathy, so it has nothing to do with them feeling hurt, as they can't suffer and science is unanimous in that they have no radioemotional capacity. Really, really, primitive animals. *Slurp* But so tasty."
I mean, do you people even listen to yourselves?
Oysters are actually really delicious
You have actually another comment last year lol
@@zezyzhujikop great observation
Bro when do you get time to make music?
You know. It just tastes like saltwater to me. Not really my favorite
Wrong
Makes me very very hungry
Yes
I've seen you in 7 videos in a row. Stop following me.
You again??!!
Tf I saw you in like 9 video already😂I'm scared
STAAAAAAAAPPPPPP
Who remembers the mister bean movie/episode??
...
🙋
It was an entire movie...
@@sleepingpowder1595 yea, I mean that. C'mon it's been years since that.
@@m.mhn7535 I was just correcting you because you called it an episode. Also I can send you edited your comment
@@sleepingpowder1595 There is one episode where mr.bean go to a hotel, in the hotel restaurant he eat rotten oyster. That's probably the episode Liva just watched
Link to the episode : ua-cam.com/video/RbikwV0HbZs/v-deo.html
*PETA screaming in the background*
Peta laughs while killing 80% of thr adoptable animals.
PETA is edible
[PETA confused screaming as oysters don't care if they are poorly treated or not as they don't have any brains]
*PETA scrambling as they figure out ways to anthropomorphise bivalves*
I explained to a vegan that it was proven that plants do feel and react to pain in measurable ways. Very bad first date😓
I’ve eaten an oyster before that the shell was moving. I assume it was barnacles on the oysters because something was pulsing in and out from on the shell. At first I was startled , but after a little lemon and horseradish , the oyster was simply divine.
As a chef by trade, I’ve been shucking oysters and clams for years. As long as the blade doesn’t pierce the belly of the bivalve it’s definitely still alive when it hits your stomach. Also shucking isn’t a violent task once you get the hang of it
Why do people eat these raw and not cooked? Almost all other shellfish is cooked.
@WALTERBROADDUS Flavor and texture, FYI Conch and clams are consumed raw as well.
@@gwendolynallen3218 as far as I know, you don't even chew these things? And people cover them in hot sauce to make them palatable?
@WALTERBROADDUS I live in Louisiana and I prefer my oysters chargrilled with butter and herbs on it. Not a fan of the raw variety. Fried ones are pretty good too.
@@MasterAdam100 I've tried some smoked ones. I like that Grill idea. Sounds tasty.
Ask the restaurant for the tag... and be confident that the oyster you are eating is linked to the tag they show you. Oh, yeah, very clever. OMG... LOL
😆😆
Antonio Alonso Like they would care XD
There are many reports of restaurants from all backgrounds cheating their customers, even expensive high class restaurants!
If you order an expensive fish dish, then they'll give you the same dish but with a cheaper fish species. Capitalism 101, Trump Style!
if they have a recent tag it probably is the right one, or else they would have to get 2 different shippments for the cheap and fresh ones
And I can't imagine the restaurants are happy to have to take time out of their day to provide this either...
Oh the irony that once poor man's food like oysters and kale are modern luxuries - those long dead peasants are laughing
Caviar too.
Oyster is always a delicacy
lobster 🦞
gold and silver was for normal people in ancient india and aloys and aluminium were expensive.
I mean oysters are super cheap, don’t know why anyone would pay much for them
They're an acquired taste really. I remember trying it during my late teen years and HATED it, but now in my 20s I love the things.
[man about to eat a live oyster]
Oyster: eat me daddy
Man: what?
Oyster: what?
Edit: B R U H
...
XD
Lmao that would scare the shit outta me lmao .
😂😂😂
Don't ever eat this. The taste will make you retch instantly. Someone famously said it's like eating a giant snot ball... YUCK!!!
Yes!! Ask the server, the Chef for the Shellfish tag, especially dining the middle of the continent. Chef for years & worked briefly at a dive that held oysters for over 3 months. Completely illegal & puts his customers at great risk. I never served them, of course, this was in fact the reason I ended up resigning after only being there a handful of days. Oh how I hate restaurant work.
Did you report it?
@@phoebeel million dollar question
@@phoebeel 👏👏
*I never actually ate it before I knew about it on mr.bean lol*
Me too lol
Haha...same here 😄
Oh yes.
Ikr xDD
try it it is amazing with salt lime and hot sauce
I don't even eat sea food..... And youtube is giving me more reasons why I shouldn't
edit: If you are curious why I don't eat sea food, it's because my mom is allergic to most sea food so we avoid eating sea food..
idk about oyster but you’re missing something if you never tried sea food 😋
@@LabooneLagoon823 thought so too, tasted it, tastes shittier than I imagined
You should probably also stop eating animals
@@williamcaputo7931 As with many foods, you probably will find it disgusting if you never had it growing up and are having it for the first time. But it's also possible that you just had bad seafood. Seafood is one of those foods that can easily be very bad if you don't eat it fresh and eat the highest quality. Sort of like pancakes. A good pancake tastes great, but a bad pancake is especially bad.
My mom is allergic to shellfish so we don't cook it at home (the smell around upsets her) . However I do eat it since I'm not allergic.
Lol, yeah, I'm gonna get depressed about eating something without a brain, that makes sense. Let me just cry that my spinach leaves still have living cells in them too.
Atlas WalkedAway lol
Stop making fun of me
I'm depressed after killing bacteria, while disinfecting the toilet
I'm depressed after killing myself
@@LyubomirIko same...I've been dead for decades, and it still didnt cure my depression...
*"6000-7000 Fresh oysters"*
Me : *eat a roasted oysters and vomited*
That sounds dry. Better to eat it fried if you're squeamish about eating it raw.
Oh that's sad. You are missing out
Fried is my favorite. Even better when made into a po boy. Now THAT'S good eating!!,
Go to proper establishments if you're gonna eat oysters raw, not some hole in the wall.
I'll follow below ....you are missing on some great shellfish lol
I felt bad when they said that they were killed recently
Then I heard they might not feel pain and went back to eating
Bruh wtf
They are so good!!!!
You should've ordered salmon
I love oysters and this made me feel so much better. I bought the most beautiful biggest oysters and it’s my first time basically. I was freaking out I cooked them at 450 for 10 minutes and then at 480 for like maybe 5 minutes hella scared me
It would be very difficult to eat oysters when you are dead.
HORRIOR underrated
👌😥💦😂💯
Haha that made me laugh a bit😂
Lol
Yes duh
Very interesting !
The Exoplanets Channel right bc they want us to die to control over population 🙄
vegan piece of shit
It really really wasn’t
*... to interesting ? 🤔*
These replies confuse me but I'm stupid so oh well
4:10 that's a wet fart.
Great observation. I laughed so hard. Thank you
😳😳😳
She even stuttered lol
Count Dracula 😳😳😳😳😳😳
That made me drink 3 gallons of unsee juice...
While seeing this I’m imagining the oysters in a super high pitched voice going like “ahhhhhhh don’t eat me noooo I’m dyi....”
Lmao! 🤣
yeah funny having your spine broken and then being put on ice to experience agony for days
@@ChocolateMuffin308 they don't feel pain the way we do smartass.
I serve oysters everyday at my work here in Baltimore. So this is fascinating for me. I knew a lot of it, but not that they are alive while on ice in the walk-in.
But less people eat oysters, almost everyone eats lettuce?
WuzNab 🐢 did someone say lettuce 🐢🐢🐢🐢
WuzNab true, as far as I’m aware of.
I put oysters on my burgers instead of lettuce.
Oysters don't eat lettuce.
on the west yeah, but in asian countries? probably the other way around
0:48 I don't know why I cracked up seeing "Oyster Expert" 😂
2:13. “ I have probably had over six or 7 thousand in my lifetime and I’ve never gotten sick”
That reminds me of another quote. “ i’ve been juggling chainsaws for 20 years and I’ve never cut myself even once” That quote comes from a guy now known as Stumpy.
Wtf is an oyster expert. Do they pay for these kinds of jobs ? And who pays for that?
TetaGama Gaming I’m guessing she’s some kind of marine biologist or something who specializes with bivalves or whatever.
she’s basically a marine biologist but mainly studies one fish which would be the oyster
I guess because she ate over 6,000 of them. 🤢
Another name for oyster expert is lesbian.
Maybe Tiffany isn't a lesbian...
She farted at 4:10 after eating a massive meal of oysters
Salazar Snifffff
Imagine how horrified she was in her head
Shit all clapped.
🤣
Mmmm It smell Like the ocean
4:10
Hear it closely
LMFAO 😂😂😂 did she pass gas LOL
her pants ripped
*oyster fart*
Dr. Whet Faartz
nah shes muting peta
I hate the argument that an animal can’t feel pain. Its “version” of pain is still pain however you want to define it. Oysters and clams still have nerves, and nerves process sensations including what their version of pain is.
Science insider ain't fooling no one with the misrepresented stats that so many people in the comments rightly pointed out. It's pretty awesome that there are so many critical thinkers out there saving others from being fooled thanks for those MVPs out there
Know what else is alive? Raw fruits, veggies, AND raw/rare meat. What's left, an all mineral diet?
if youre talking about the fact that oysters are basically amoeba with a shell then those so called "critical thinkers" are in reality stupid brainwashed peta members just like your dumb ass
@@adaf3003 😂
Wow, you *really* don't like oysters huh?
What's wrong about the video I'm kind of confused
1:03 and one dies from 6 hour binge watching Sam'Oneila academy.
Man of cukture
culture of male
What makes her an oyster expert, eat 8000 oysters?
She "Ate"
she got an oyster degree at trump university
Probably some marine biologist that works for some farm or regulator.
She's got an Oyster card.
she is the oyster
I know someone that almost died from Oysters but it turned out the oysters weren’t properly stored in the restaurant(the restaurant was shut down). I now look for fresh oyster restaurants since then.
Shellfish: we will evolve hathing bacteria infection
Human: then we take you alive
Shellfish: our plane has back fired!
Which Plane?✈️
@@1989nirankarsingh shell air
awkward moments beautifully done
At 4:08 she farts 💀
XD
It's 4:10
Lmaoo
XD
@Fad Vortex ;-; wow
It doesn't
Oof
I love her ending statement. It seems like mostly everything we eat now has been modified in some way
3:26.. i suddenly felt a chill down my spine....
2018:hey we're eating some sea slug like creature in a shell, ALIVE
2459:we still can't believe that our ancestors eat sea slugs in a shell, like WHAT
2019, end of the world
Completely wrong. Do we look at what the Ancient Greeks ate and call them crazy? No, because food is food moron. It's all relative
@@KurasakiBleachigo1 Greek food is shit, so your argument is shit
SuperPickle15 but your entire mama is shit though
@@Pugetwitch nice comeback. I'm so insulted
In my country people eat a different kind of oyster which isn't shucked. They're just forced open and when they're served to you they are very much still alive. They come with lemon wedges, and when they squeeze the lemon onto the oysters, they make a weird noise and close back up slightly. It's a bit more involved than those oysters in the video.
I’m watching this at three in the morning. ..I’m getting married in six hours👀
How did it go?
are u guys still married ?
Congratulations
Uh oh, watching weird oyster videos before getting married. I hope everything went well for you! 💕
Tell your wife I miss her
From where I am from where oysters abound, we NEVER eat oysters raw. We boil them but make sure not to overcook them. It is still juicy and delicious.
That's cool but you can still eat it raw though.
How can you live with yourself
@@LucyBlossomsrude comment
The only thing we need to pay, for all those living things (plants or animals) sacrificed their life becomes food for us, are respect and appreciation Cook ur food properly, and waste no more. Feeling guilty for eating other species is nonsense. It’s part of the Mother Earth system and everyone can not scape from it. Do not waste their lives is the best and only thing we can do.
Exactly
I'm pretty sure the way this animals are treated and raised is not the mother nature's way of things nor is the western need of eating animal products so often
@@mrviniful nor is the internet... or medicine... or in door plumbing... i can go on for ages. Natural =/= better
@@ConstantChaos1 how this conversation went
Fenrir Wang: We should eat whatever we want because its part of Mother Nature
Constant Chaos: Yes. That is the Natural way
Vinicius Costa: But none of what we eat or the way we eat is Natural, excessive eating and farming practices are actually harmful to Mother nature
Constant Chaos:........ uh.... *still wanting to eat irresponsibly* NATURAL IS NOT BETTER!!!!
@@crewmatewillthrowthesehand7600 nope, thats really not how it went, and tell me, how do you know my dietary practices? How did you come to the conclusion that i eat irresponsibly?
those cells at 0:40 were paramecia and not vibrio.
paramecia live in ponds, aquariums, vases and sometimes even even in fresh water from the tap and are totally harmless.
the paramecium is a single celled microorganism that moves with 10000 little hairs (called cilia) on its outside, and has a cell mouth, two contractile vacuoles, a macronucleus, a micronucleus, food vacuoles and other organells. most paramecia eat mostly funghi, bacteria and yeast, but they will also eat whatever gets sucked into ther cell mouth.
Basically im oyster.
ok so basically im monky
Mumkey.
Ok so basically i am GAE
Im basically the one who has no originality.
@@bquecha7526 you're fun
I still want my food thoroughly cooked.
Good! destroy the nutrients in it!
@@ahabrawgaming1289 for many Foods cooking makes it easier to get nutrients out of it
The oyster expert farted at 4:10
Lol
Sean bad oyster
My most sincere thanks for pointing that out.
Oyster, Oyster good for the heart, the more you eat the more you parp 💩😷😂
The attention to detail
Him: This oyster could still be ALIVE!
* *_proceeds to eat it_* *
You guys know what??
I never eaten oyster but still scrolling down for your comments!!!
Kweb's Kop Get some hot sauce (if you can’t handle that then use cocktail sauce) and some lemon juice
Delicious
@@hylianro I will never eat it bro
But still thanks😊
No one cares
cuz ya a sissi... let me guess, you eat yo steak well done and you prolly don't eat raw fish sushi
It’s 3am and I hate seafood, I don’t know why I’m here.
People eating beef: oh no you cruel
People eating oyster which probably alive: oyster dont feel pain
No, we eat them alive because we like inflicting pain on animals while having a tasty treat.
oysters don't have a brain.so they defiantly can't feel pain cause to feel pain requires a brain.
Ronny Ip Da fuq? I eat living oyster because I'm not sadistic but because they're hella tasty as I do sometimes eat them alive but I do prefer to eat them cooked cause it's also tasty.
I just eat my beef, it's nature.
*WARNING ⚠ :SWARMS OF VEGANS INCOMING*
Oh shit
Gotta love the hypocrisy.
Overall, it is a pretty informative video, but I have one nitpick about it. The stats starting at 0:51 are true but misleading. We are told that a lot of lettuce is contaminated with salmonella and that this disease kills significantly more people. However, salmonella can be contracted from a wider range of foods that are consumed much more often than oysters: any meat or poultry, eggs, raw milk, and contaminated water. For Vibrio (mostly just found in oysters) to be in the same ballpark as Salmonella, your chance of contracting a fatal disease from a meal of oysters must be many times greater than your chances of contracting a fatal disease from lettuce.
Ask yourself, how much lettuce, eggs, poultry, and meat have you eaten in the past month (hopefully raw milk and contaminated water are not on your list). Then ask how yourself how many oysters you've eaten.
That said, the overall chances of either disease are reasonably low, and oysters are delicious. I am craving some right now writing this. I love them. I am not arguing against eating oysters, just misleading statistics.
If you don't wanna take a risk, don't eat oyster. As simple as that.
Nadia A. But it tastes gooood
or cook the oyster!
@@zad_rasera but it doesn't =\
Nadia A. you should stop breathing too since it slowly kills you aswell.
Marcel Rodriguez i'm a timeless LOL
Here in the Philippines , we place oyster in vinegar with salt chopped onion and chopped garlic and eat it raw .
The vinegar acid maybe cooking it just like ceviche
I guess these oysters must've felt pretty shell-shucked to be cut open in that way.
You're welcome.
Just imagine being shell-shucked! It is horrible.
FFS...good one.
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I had one when I was in Belgium. It tastes pretty good especially when you add the lemon.
How is the texture? I imagine it being like slime
@@izaaak281 It is kind of slimy but in a good way
Wow. I had one raw oyster in Spain over 20 years ago. I've had no desire to try again...specially now. I do like cooked and canned ones tho. Thanks 👍
Wow youre heartless😦😔
fresh, alive, raw ... is the ONLY good way to eat em... canned oysters, yuck
Paivi Project pervert
I curse you
Why is that ?
My wife caught norovirus from raw oysters Friday. Today is Monday and now I'm sick. I caught it from her, it is very contagious. If you catch food poisoning, you better not prepare food for other people until you're over it. We learned our lesson.
Hope ur doing alright now
@@izaaak281 thanks. We were back to normal after a few days.
this oyster reminds me about mr bean comedy scenes 😂😂
Oyster: eat me daddy
Me: what
Oyster: what
wat
100 subs No videos? U stole it
lol, original comments are always the best. It's almost like a saw the original a minute ago.
This comment deserves more like
More like
Oyster: *Screams internally as it it is chewed to death*
Eating them alive is the best way to eat them. They are really good with lime, salt, & Lea & Perrins sauce.
I am quite curious as I have never tasted once. What does an oyster tastes like?????
well, where im from, its very rare to eat oysters like that. we usually roast the oysters before consuming them.
Fun Fact: Pea crabs are an oyster parasite. Since you don’t cook them, those can *also* still be alive when eating an oyster.
I experienced this first hand. Didn’t really wanna eat it as i don’t like them that much, pokes the oysters belly and a small semi-see thru red ball popped out. I was like “huh..?” anddd then it’s legs unfolded and it started moving.
Never eating oysters again.
free crab with your oysters sounds like a plus
i googled pea crabs - mere presence of it inside the oyster is a good sign that your oyster was in quality water.
also they can be eaten as well.
Never have and never will try an oyster.
Had* and same *daddy*
Same
@@kyrlics6515 My IQ has gone up +10 because of your comment.
If you ever do by some chance i recommend putting a little bit of lemon juice and some hot sauce. Its the best!
fool of a took
4:11 I heard that 👀💨
Lol
3:55 only if I go back and order salmon
Tomorrow's video: "Why is salmon alive"
Me:👁️👄👁️
Why we *EAT* salmon alive.
@@redwanmarashli6496 lol idk
I used to work on an oyster farm here in Maine. We went out on a brackish river in the winter on a raft and farmed them. My boss would dive to the bottom of the freezing river and pick them off the sea floor by hand. We'd haul them up onto the boat in a bag he filled underwater, and then sort them out. All my mates ate the oysters raw right out of the river. Not a one of them got sick. Get your oysters from Maine, they're the best you can get. Also, oysters are barely alive when running at full steam. All they do is filter water. Not a very cute or personable animal. They're easily mistaken for rocks because that's about what they do in a lifespan, sit around.
Sounds like a whole bunch of Trump supporters watching tv.
Isn't that hunting not farming? Also they aren't barely alive, they are just alive.
3:54 "If only I could go back.. And order the Salmon"
Gently tickle the black rim of the oyster with the end of your knife. If it recedes, the oyster is still fresh and you can gulp down that SOB. If it doesn't, don't eat it and ask for a refund because the oyster probably didn't make it through unsafe food transportation. Also try to eat them as close as possible to their harvest site. Also avoid May to August since they end up "milky" and you're eating a lot of roe and not much oyster (some like it though)... And keep it simple: a touch vinegar and a pinch of minced schallot. Don't drown it under sauce to preserve that unique salty taste!
God I love oysters...
I stop eating raw food due to the concern of parasites and bacteria.
When I went to el Salvador last year I was eating live oysters left and right but then I got scared After I started thinking of the consequences.
Fresh raw oysters with lemon juice is the best
a lightly salted, medium rare T-Bone steak fresh from the Amish market is the best
I've had it once and it was horrible. Food served hot are just the way to go.
James Lupei did you have it grilled? I tried that at a BBQ and it was absolutely disgusting. the texture was like I was eating wet fine sand encased in a wet flour wrap while tasting like glue
@@TheBishop12 may have been bad ones... They aren't meant to taste like that...
Grow some balls
Hot garbage lol. Best thing is a cold kusshi with citrus vinaigrette and fresh strawberry aperitif. Then a sip of bubbly...
To each their own. Personally, they're delicious.
The Oyster Expert lady :"they might even not feel pain at all" OFF COURSE WHEN GET DEVOURED ALIVE !!! they will suffer hell pain...
In Russia THE OYSTAAHH EATS YOU!
douchebag
*Ohh nooo it was probably still alive when i ate it*, "So anyways I'll take another order please"
It is NOT an abductor muscle, it is an adductor muscle. Look it up, unless you are an oyster kidnapper.
Lmao
**looks up with a huge pile of oysters behind him**
whAt
Well, it's rather convenient for us to decide that they don't feel pain. We don't really have any evidence to support that, so I think we should assume that they do feel pain, and therefore it's not a good idea to eat them alive.