Eating Crocodile With Tears?

A Hot Pot Restaurant hired some chef to show the process of killing crocodile in order to attract people to come. Big advertisement posters were put up in the centre of the city and people can easily check the time of the shows. “We think it’s a strategy of promotion. We opened recently, and we only want to get our name known. Speaking of the bloody of the show, it’s a matter of preference.” said a man in charge of the restaurant. (20th Dec, Dongfang Today) It’s universally acknowledged that crocodile is very vicious animal. It’s hard to imagine that the dying vicious is put on the chopping block and looks as a sheep among the shearers. It struggles to survive but almost impossible, which is held up as “a sensational show” by the boss of the restaurant. Bloody, cruel…It’s too horrible to look at, at least in my eye.

Quite a lot of people admit that the show is too bloody and inhuman but they still vie with each other in sharing eating “the victim” of slaughter. It’s really lamentable that their sympathy cannot triumph the lure of food. It is said that crocodile will burst into tears when it is wolfing down its prey, but fictitious tears. So do people do so when they eat it?

What the restaurant does is beyond reproach. However, at the cost of destroying humanity is ridiculous and not necessary. Just think of the shocking feeling brought to our heart and eyes. Putting up naked bloody slaughter in front of all the people for the purpose of getting more customers, then, awful influences on children will be too dreadful to contemplate.

According to the law, killing crocodile is not illegal, but it doesn’t mean they can show the process of killing, unscrupulously. There are ethics and regulation besides laws. Bloody killing show is absolutely a kind of heart detriment to people.

As the first province carrying on “Humanity Slaughtering”, Henan Province held the “Chinese Humanity Slaughtering Plan” on 16th December this year, which became the focus of the society and well-reputed. But, only a few days later, the “poor crocodile case” became absolute counterexample. What a shame!

A civilized country should not be the hell of animals. If we can’t avoid eating animals, the only thing we can do is to leave some respect humanity to them, at least, to their death.