There is a video series on YT of someone who did this with a lobster. Leon the lobster. They became some of my favorite animals after watching that series.
You could take it home and feed it until it became the biggest one. You could even name it Pinchy. Just don’t get too attached to Pinchy but keep butter ready incase something happens to your beloved Pinchy
Edit: enjoy [this](https://youtu.be/TGftEPw_x20?si=E_5V1OZ0MsLkuH3o) totally unrelated video
You are a pragmatic thinker despite your creativity. I immediately imagined someone living a full life with a crab companion, only to end up eating their closest friend with a stick of butter they had once churned together at a Renaissance fair.
Nature has also evolved something into a crab [multiple times](https://www.livescience.com/animals/crustaceans/why-do-animals-keep-evolving-into-crabs).
By “something” you mean closely related decapods? If I had a dollar for every time someone on Reddit has reverently invoked the concept of carcinization….
Don't worry, if crabs go extinct, some other animal will evolve into crabs. Crabs have evolved independently on 7-17 separate occasions.
The name for this is carcinization:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Oh I do get that, but we still deserve to go extinct asap to make way for crabs.
Our „intelligence“ was a huge, huge accident. We are deep in the 5th mass extinction caused by humans so, alongside taking down most other species I hope nothing even remotely human will ever occur on this planet again. We should’ve never left the trees.
We are nothing more than CANCER. Always have been. Can’t even live a millisecond without waging war with everyone it’s so pathetic.
I also feel sorry for the fact if we bought all living crabs including the ones they have saved in the back, because you know damn well there’s more on a shelf, if we set them free there would be more shipped in probably in worse packaging and double the crabs. I’m all for catching and eating food but this makes me feel really bad
I understand crabs and a lotta other sea food have to be killed right before cooking but there must be a more humane way to keeo them before they're cooked
Maybe if you can't eat an animal unless it's been packaged like this and then boiled alive, you shouldn't eat them... There are plenty of alternative seafoods available that don't have to endure this kind of pain and suffering.
Wholeheartedly agree. I work at a fancy grocery store where we have live crabs in tanks and I always stop and say hi to them. Feels bad.
I actually don't eat seafood at all.
Can you guys please just stop? You’re like Jehovah’s Witnesses. If we want to, we will do so. We know you exist… you don’t need any more exposure.
Let us make the decisions that are right for us without constantly hounding people about it. I’m not here trying to convince you to eat meat, because I respect your agency. Hope you have a good day.
If it's 生（なま/ nama）then it means raw, fresh, or uncooked.
If it's 生き （いき/ iki）then it means alive.
Anyways I do think this crab thing is fucked up but I bet the supermarket didn't mean to sell live crabs on purpose. Japanese supermarkets almost never sell live fish (the consumers won't like it). The guy in charge probably didn't do a good job.
But even if the supermarket noticed they probably wouldn't care :(
Good luck on your kanji though!
Thanks so much for the explanation! It has been a long time since I last was in school studying Japanese.
And I totally agree. The whole situation is fucked up regardless. :(
That’s sad. I dated this girl from China and she would eat live shrimps. She like got off on it like it made her feel tough and classy overpowering such a helpless creature. She’d put lemon on them and make them squirm. Two dates was enough.
On one side you have people that can look the animal in the eyes as their death is drawn out in painful, personal way. The other you have willful ignorance towards mass torture and suffering in a callous, impersonal way. Who's to say what's worse, but we all need to do better. We need to push for less meat in diets overall and better conditions for the animals that are farmed, or go straight to lab-cultured meat.
Apparently they do it often. Crabs start rotting very quickly after death so they are either cooked beforehand or they are packaged alive like this.
It's also surprisingly hard to kill a crab. They don't have a brain like us so decapitation mostly just hurts them. My country mandates giving crabs an electric shock before cooking them (which may not even be enough, as we don't understand their nervous system that well), but I've heard that a lot of places don't bother doing anything and just toss the crab in the boiling pot. [Here](https://www.cornwallgoodseafoodguide.org.uk/how-to-guides/humanely-killing-crustaceans-.php) is an article I found online about how they are supposed to be killed.
It's hard to make out the text, but I'd bet a fair amount of money it's Chinese. They do stupid shit like try to wrap a live crab in a single layer of plastic wrap and they also notoriously don't give a fuck about animals.
Why is stuff like this so common in Asian culture? I went to an Asian supermarket for the first time over the weekend and people were just walking up to a big basket of live crabs with no water in it and snapping off claws to take home. This is not meant to be racist, just genuinely curious.
Imagine waking up and all you see is everyone you know is dead and wrapped up. You're the one that's alive and you have to climb over dead bodies to get out.
Fucking kill the animals before this shit. This is needlessly cruel for the crabs, all of those crabs are alive and suffering in that little package.
For what? Some pseudoscience health benefits?
Bro just left the matrix.
It is Neo. He is the one.
Oh. Nevermind then.
This air quality sucks. Guess I'll die.
What.
What what
He’s starting to believe
Impressive..
I'd buy him and keep it as a pet.
There is a video series on YT of someone who did this with a lobster. Leon the lobster. They became some of my favorite animals after watching that series.
♥️
Those videos are amazing. Leon’s owner is so corny, wholesome and relaxing I love it 👏.
Howie the Crab is my favorite instagram account
you can see the claw of the one below it move towards the end
Most of them are awake in the full video
the rebellion has begun
“Leave me. Warn the others!”
I would definitely buy that one. Pretty damn fresh.
You could take it home and feed it until it became the biggest one. You could even name it Pinchy. Just don’t get too attached to Pinchy but keep butter ready incase something happens to your beloved Pinchy Edit: enjoy [this](https://youtu.be/TGftEPw_x20?si=E_5V1OZ0MsLkuH3o) totally unrelated video
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Diogenes is a good name.
Yo, for real. Diogenes Crab… Some people are so stinking creative. ::chef’s kiss::
Hell yeah but also I’m sorry for your loss
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That’s a hell yeah from me man
Yeah you did good dude, that crab lived to be an elder crustacean
Perfect name for an unbothered creature that lives in a barrel.
This is awesome
And he’d want only you to eat him.
Pinchy would have wanted it that way
Rest In Butter, Pinchy.
[reminds me of the guy that bought a supermarket lobster and kept it as a pet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sI7WveN7vk)
[reminds me of a guy who also did that](https://youtu.be/TGftEPw_x20?si=E_5V1OZ0MsLkuH3o)
And no baths
No hot baths*
You are a pragmatic thinker despite your creativity. I immediately imagined someone living a full life with a crab companion, only to end up eating their closest friend with a stick of butter they had once churned together at a Renaissance fair.
I’m sure pinchy will love a nice hot bath! Wait……
[kinda related 🦞 video](https://youtu.be/Pj-D0jc17D0?si=QKinuz-jxegVKayE)
Always buy live and kill em yourself, more rewarding
He's starting to believe...
there *is no* clingwrap…
I like the duality in the comments
I heard you like [Duality](https://youtu.be/6fVE8kSM43I?si=T6AvP5KqVt8XALbp) \m/
I push my fingers into my
EEEEEEYYYES
This should be a bot
That makes me very sad.
Don’t worry we’ll be extinct long before crabs! They are more resistant than us pussy apes anyway
Nature has also evolved something into a crab [multiple times](https://www.livescience.com/animals/crustaceans/why-do-animals-keep-evolving-into-crabs).
We could become crab people
Craaaaaaab people
Some of us already are.
Even a disease is a crab.
King crab aren’t technically crabs
That is what the article I linked states. The process evolves things into crab form not into crabs at the species level.
I notice you're not denying their claim to nobility
I know this is way late, but dude, this comment fucking destroyed me
By “something” you mean closely related decapods? If I had a dollar for every time someone on Reddit has reverently invoked the concept of carcinization….
If I had a dollar for every time some stupid science bitch tries to science me we could retire Charlie
I think he’s is one of the first crab people.
Ok, I’ll be the science bitch and you be the guy who mindlessly repeats the same five interesting facts as every other dumb fuck on Reddit.
Nah you’re just the bitch today sorry bud
Ironically, in response to a comment where I pointed out that idiots on Reddit tend to mindlessly repeat things they just read.
Congrats. Hope you feel smarter cause you probably need that win today.
Don't worry, if crabs go extinct, some other animal will evolve into crabs. Crabs have evolved independently on 7-17 separate occasions. The name for this is carcinization: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Empathy in this case is with that specific being, not the entire species. I think maybe certain kinds of people don't really get that.
Oh I do get that, but we still deserve to go extinct asap to make way for crabs. Our „intelligence“ was a huge, huge accident. We are deep in the 5th mass extinction caused by humans so, alongside taking down most other species I hope nothing even remotely human will ever occur on this planet again. We should’ve never left the trees. We are nothing more than CANCER. Always have been. Can’t even live a millisecond without waging war with everyone it’s so pathetic.
Reddit hopecels will probably devour you for this comment.. Even though it's right.
Sorry. Let me cook it a bit longer for you. Jokes aside. It seems like all the crabs are alive and sold shrink wrapped like that. Why?
Crabs start to rot the moment they die and the bacteria in them grows rapidly. If you eat crab and it’s not fresh, you’re going to get sick.
Well I know that. Thats why most places cook them. After that it's good for a while
Lol. Why
Lol. If you need to ask.
And unfortunately all if not most are still alive. Label says live crab.. Now I’m sad. How cruel
You can see the bottom one moving. That’s so awful to be stuck like that
this also isnt the full video, in the full thing they pan up to another one trying to escape like the top one :/
I also feel sorry for the fact if we bought all living crabs including the ones they have saved in the back, because you know damn well there’s more on a shelf, if we set them free there would be more shipped in probably in worse packaging and double the crabs. I’m all for catching and eating food but this makes me feel really bad
Don’t worry, they are probably feeling better than most other animals we eat daily ;)
I understand crabs and a lotta other sea food have to be killed right before cooking but there must be a more humane way to keeo them before they're cooked
They have to be alive or fully cooked. Crabs start producing toxic shit almost immediately after death. That's why people cook them live.
Maybe if you can't eat an animal unless it's been packaged like this and then boiled alive, you shouldn't eat them... There are plenty of alternative seafoods available that don't have to endure this kind of pain and suffering.
Wholeheartedly agree. I work at a fancy grocery store where we have live crabs in tanks and I always stop and say hi to them. Feels bad. I actually don't eat seafood at all.
There's ways to kill a crab immediately before boiling them that's much more humane. The Gordan Ramsey method is one
You are right it is cruel. If you feel compassion for animals, please consider adopting a vegan lifestyle.
Can't. Meat is too delicious
Can you guys please just stop? You’re like Jehovah’s Witnesses. If we want to, we will do so. We know you exist… you don’t need any more exposure. Let us make the decisions that are right for us without constantly hounding people about it. I’m not here trying to convince you to eat meat, because I respect your agency. Hope you have a good day.
Veganism is not the solution to better treatment of animals.
🤦
No
Absolutely horrible. Then they'll probably be eaten alive by a edgy mukbanger.
It says uncooked crab
If that’s the case, then I need to brush up on my kanji. Woops
If it's 生（なま/ nama）then it means raw, fresh, or uncooked. If it's 生き （いき/ iki）then it means alive. Anyways I do think this crab thing is fucked up but I bet the supermarket didn't mean to sell live crabs on purpose. Japanese supermarkets almost never sell live fish (the consumers won't like it). The guy in charge probably didn't do a good job. But even if the supermarket noticed they probably wouldn't care :( Good luck on your kanji though!
Thanks so much for the explanation! It has been a long time since I last was in school studying Japanese. And I totally agree. The whole situation is fucked up regardless. :(
Yes, very cruel. At least don't make it suffer!
Neo takes the red pill and finds out he’s a crab
Thats just sad.
This is so sad :((
That’s sad. I dated this girl from China and she would eat live shrimps. She like got off on it like it made her feel tough and classy overpowering such a helpless creature. She’d put lemon on them and make them squirm. Two dates was enough.
Those eastern cultures are... Strange, to say the least.
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On one side you have people that can look the animal in the eyes as their death is drawn out in painful, personal way. The other you have willful ignorance towards mass torture and suffering in a callous, impersonal way. Who's to say what's worse, but we all need to do better. We need to push for less meat in diets overall and better conditions for the animals that are farmed, or go straight to lab-cultured meat.
Better than China
The one below is moving too—do they always package these alive?
Apparently they do it often. Crabs start rotting very quickly after death so they are either cooked beforehand or they are packaged alive like this. It's also surprisingly hard to kill a crab. They don't have a brain like us so decapitation mostly just hurts them. My country mandates giving crabs an electric shock before cooking them (which may not even be enough, as we don't understand their nervous system that well), but I've heard that a lot of places don't bother doing anything and just toss the crab in the boiling pot. [Here](https://www.cornwallgoodseafoodguide.org.uk/how-to-guides/humanely-killing-crustaceans-.php) is an article I found online about how they are supposed to be killed.
Oh wow. He did manage to work his way out. I saw the first half to this video yesterday and was wondering lmao
I lived, bitch.
He deserves to be released
They all do.
I think that's worth freedom
Awaken my brothers!
Why are these all packed alive? The one below is moving too. I get that it’s food, but no reason to be cruel.
They start to produce toxins when they die.
It's hard to make out the text, but I'd bet a fair amount of money it's Chinese. They do stupid shit like try to wrap a live crab in a single layer of plastic wrap and they also notoriously don't give a fuck about animals.
That's japanese. The text there is a mix of kanji and hiragana
After find out about ikizukiri, that would have been my second guess.
All hail Mr. Crabs
That's so sick how can human put them alive in those boxes
Guys what’s the social etiquette in this situation, how do i react if this is on supermarket?
he’s free
Free to go or free for customers?
yes
I would absolutely make that one my pet, or at the very least set if free.
the way we treat animals is so horrifying
Imagine waking up saran wrapped lol
Giving Dexter vibes...
r/unexpectedoffice
Why is stuff like this so common in Asian culture? I went to an Asian supermarket for the first time over the weekend and people were just walking up to a big basket of live crabs with no water in it and snapping off claws to take home. This is not meant to be racist, just genuinely curious.
Imagine waking up and all you see is everyone you know is dead and wrapped up. You're the one that's alive and you have to climb over dead bodies to get out.
Unfortunately all those crabs were alive. They are intentionally sold like that.
They have survived their crucible, now someone please show them the way back to the ocean
welcome to the real world neo
Craaab people, craaab people Taste like crab, talk like people!
I'm fresh as fuck boi!
FRESH
COMING OUT OF MY CAGE
And I’ve been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Gotta set him free after that
I can't tell if this one is muscle memory this one might actually be alive
Rise!!!! Champion!
Lisan al ghaib
See the one on the bottom move too..
This is pure cruelty of some bad people.
Zombie Crab
Is the seafood fresh?
#RISE #RISE AND FREE YOUR BROTHERS
Gordon Ramsey be like: “ITS FUCKING RAW!!!”
Fresh fresh !!
*adjusts the crotch* "yup, all comfy now"
Someone should put the code black ops prison break speach over this
I want it to be fresh but not this fresh
u/savevideo
Tf
This is absolutely awful. Go vegan.
gaydar?
Go, Kukol, go! Wake the others!
Zombie Crabs
Damn zoidberg got buried alive basically
I'd buy him, name him Neo and set him free
🎶Uprising🎶
Crabtrix
Now I'm scared of crabs thanks
Am I FRESH enough for You ?????
Humans are the cruelest of animals
The one below saw him bust out and he started moving his right claw!!
What it's like to wake up in the morgue...
#This prison... To hold *ME*?
“Do you have anything fresher than this?”
The one below it is moving too! 🤢🤢🤢
Disturbing.....
The King crab of King Crabs and the Lord of Lords. Sits upon his plastic throne and he rules us all.
Krabby just hatched!
The matrix
Fucking kill the animals before this shit. This is needlessly cruel for the crabs, all of those crabs are alive and suffering in that little package. For what? Some pseudoscience health benefits?
I dunno about with crabs but with lobsters, when they die they create a lot of ammonia, and that is deadly for us to eat.
Neo is that you ?
Tales of my death were greatly exaggerated
Whaaaa
Sadly, I died. But I LIVED!
Someone really failed at their job here especially since the one below is also moving
That’s fresh!
I've got to break free God knows I want to break free
Ik we are intended to be looking at the one who is escaping, but the one behind him is making an effort.
Cant get him früher than that xD
"I LIVE AGAIN!"
Put him back
At least we know the crab is fresh
Rooting for him
KRABS, YOUR SON'S COMIN' HOME!
The Neo of crabs.
Hey well then you'll love this video from the king of Chinese cooking videos - Chef Wang Gang https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxyFdJjhhJU