In Japan you can now dance dead octopus!
The crime scene is a fish market in the Japanese city of Hakodate. As early as 2010, the restaurant Ikkatei Tabiji started the dubious dish called? Odori-don ?, also known as? Dancing squid rice bowl? To prepare: An octopus is decapitated and placed in a bowl with rice noodles, salmon eggs and some vegetables. If you drive the octopus with some soy sauce, the impossible happens: he dances.
Sometimes you have to be careful that he does not dance out of the bowl ...
What's going on there?
Our brain controls our movements? So how can it be that a living being whose brain has been separated moves? In our body cells are energy particles called ATP (adenosine triphosphate). An important task of these energy particles is muscle contraction. Similar to a bicycle dynamo, where the light burns for a while after stopping to pedal, the ATP particles still have some energy, although the brain has been separated from the body. But they have to be pissed off and that's what makes the soy sauce, or more precisely, the sodium and potassium it contains. These substances give electrical impulses, which causes the movements of the octopus.
Dead or alive ? Animal cruelty?
Is the octopus dead or alive now? The minds are arguing about that. A living being without a brain is not viable. Therefore, it is believed that the dancing octopus is dead. Without a brain, the nerves can not handle any pain stimuli, so it should not 'suffer' either.
The only problem is that the brain of an octopus is spread over his body and not just in his head. So the question remains, what is responsible for what and if the animal does not dance 'alive' and suffers.
Either way, we find the whole thing pretty disgusting. And who really wants such a slippery food that you have to chew for endless time before you can swallow it?
