Frogs

Posted by jbebeb (1124 days ago)

I see baskets full of frogs at the wet markets. How are they killed (humanely I hope), gutted/prepared and cooked?

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by FPguy (1124 days ago)

they are not killed....mostly! mostly they are moved over a cutter, while alive, to separate legs and body...however ....i suggest stopping people doing this....

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by margot (1121 days ago)

they are skinned alive and beheaded. It is absolutely brutal. Why anyone would want to eat them is beyond me anyway - afterall, frogs and toads eat flies, which are full of maggots. Yummy - seriously?

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by FPguy (1121 days ago)

margot, you wouldnt want to know what pigs were fed few years ago! you wouldnt eat pork anymore.
anyway froglegs are deliscious, but i do agree we should find a better way to handle them to avoid useless suffering of the animals, and.......attacj=king disney if they serve frogs is NOT the answer!

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by jbebeb (1121 days ago)

I've heard you can freeze them alive & that is relatively painless. But then what do you do? Just chop their legs off, skin the legs & throw away the rest? Seems a waste of other bits & a waste of the frog. Incidentally is the skin poisonous?
Don't know anything about what pigs or frogs eat (cows eat sheep's brains I remember, or at least in the UK they did a few years back...)

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by margot (1121 days ago)

Oooooh - FPguy, tell me - Im intregued now... I'm not a pork fan anyway - but I must admmit, it's because Babe is one of my fav movies!

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by Carmen K (1071 days ago)

ugh, all this talk makes me want to go vegetarian ;-)

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by macrobiotic (1068 days ago)

Carmen......thats not my fault that you became dislodged with the common things of life.

did you really think your steak/frogelg or whatsoever growed inside that prepackaed box?

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by ScottishRupa (982 days ago)

I see them in the supermarkets piled on top of one another in a glass tank. I cant imagine why anyone would eat one. I cant believe how they are killed - chop legs and head off...how cruel!

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by Witley (973 days ago)

About twenty years I read an article ago that said Pakistan was the biggest exporter of frogs' legs in the world and that most of the high end western restaurants used them in their fancy recipes.
The workers were on 'piece work', i.e. they were not paid by the hour but by their production rate, so basically they did not factor in any time to kill the frogs. They simply hacked off their legs in to one bucket and slopped the rest of the carcass in to another. Apparently it took some time for the frogs to actually die. Never did eat them again after seeing that.

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by Pumpkin (970 days ago)

You can put them in cold water in a pan with the lid on and then switch on the heat. Apparantly a frog can't detect the gradual heating up of the water and boils to death without knowing it.

BTW. I'm a veggie and have been for 20 years.

The way animals get killed here for consumption just makes me wanna barf. Don't people think about the hormones released into the flesh as a result of the stressful mode of death.

(I am based in Hong Kong)

Posted by Scutdog1 (964 days ago)

Killing frogs are no different than any other animals. Ever seen how the Kosher butcher shops kill the cattle, now that's freakihg disgusting. Basically, they use electric rods to get to go to this metal contraption that immobilizes them. Then they turn them upside down, partially slit their throats and release them so that they will bleed to death as they are running and stumbling around. Almost made me a vegeterian too.

As for frogs, I have no problems killing and eating them. I just cut their head off, skin and gut them, cut them up (I eat all the meat, not just the legs), and batter them up with some garlic and pepper, and fry them.

(I am based in Unspecified)