Eating live seafood

[1] The view that oysters are acceptable to eat, even by strict ethical criteria, has notably been propounded in the seminal 1975 text Animal Liberation, by philosopher Peter Singer.

[12][13] Animal welfare groups have objected to this practice on the basis that octopuses can experience pain.

[16] London resident Louis Cole ran a YouTube channel in which he ate live seafood.

[17] The Guardian commented on the ethical issues raised by the behaviour of Coles that: "It seems objectively less cruel to kill a scorpion instantly than to rear chickens in battery cages or pigs in the most miserable pork farms".

Parasitic infections are common worldwide, although they are major health concerns in tropical countries.