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- Angulas are the young of the European eel. They are a delicacy in Spain, where a single kilogram can reach thousands of dollars at auction. Angulas are tiny. Fishers need to catch 3,000 eels to reach just 1 kilo, a task that requires spending entire nights in the water, in total darkness, braving strong tides and stormy seas. And while angulas are prized for their crunchy texture, they have a very mild taste - almost nonexistent. If they don't taste like much, what makes these eels so special? And why are they so expensive?
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Why Spanish Glass Eels (Angulas) Are So Expensive | So Expensive Food | Insider Business
European eel populations have been decimated over the last century with only a fraction remaining. As a wildlife biologist who enjoys this channel, I am consistently disappointed that many of these videos do not address the ecological harm these "expensive foods" have.
They don't address the ecological harm probably because it's Insider BUSINESS, not Insider Environment...
Because nobody wants ideology in the video, maybe you and other leftists... In Spain we doing this for centuries and the animals stills there. You only have to understand where is the limit to stop hunting and give time to the animal to reproduce
It is a major issue I have with these videos.
love you for this comment, mate!
Did you watch until the end? They talked about it at the end.
Funny how they over fish the eels then complain about the numbers dropping each year 😂
"We caught over 1500 eels in 2020, in 2022 we only caught 750"
Yeah no shit sherlock, if you catch all the babies how tf do you expect their numbers to be higher the next year😒😒😒😒
Spawn killing for something you can barely taste lmao
You english or american? Of course you don’t taste anything, you used to eat everything with sugar and sauce because food is processed and disgusting in your conuntries🤣
Rich people know no bounds 😂
Dumb people neither aparently. Half of the stuff flying over your head yet you comment some half bakes slef righteous bs.
I guess for people to whom money is not an object eating a plate of tasteless fish-worms for over 7000 dollars is a matter of "eating what almost no one else can afford" and not about eating something delicious and nutritious.
Yea, just like branded bags and shoes
Good
Exactly. And it's cruel that they don't allow the eels to grow into adults.
its traditional thing u cant change it until they died
@@benedictuswinner3995 OH, you can change it, people used to eat a lot of sea turtles in the US less than a Century ago. Try eating one now, you will have to be completely alone because if anyone with some decency knows you did it you're in serious hot water like the one you used to cook the poor turtle.
I don't understand why this thing is so expensive even though the taste in this thing is almost non-existent...let them live freely
It’s about status not taste, just like shark fin in Asia
It's about the novelty and texture in your mouth. I wouldn't eat human baby fingers or cheeks for its novelty or texture. Guess it's wrong.
People love eating baby animals.
Ikr?? 7k for non-existing taste
@@fatmilf1498 put *cough* caviar *cough* on your list
I don't understand the legal mechanisms that allow a critically endangered species to be fished, even in limited quantities.
Some people feel like they accomplished something by eating expensive food.
Capitalism, baby!
Especially when they tastes like nothing! The eels are nothing but a vessel for a seasoning and sauce! It’s just pointless and terrible in my opinion.
I don't understand wanting government to regulate individuals lives. Cucksters
all about the money.
Dude still looks confused about why the eel numbers are declining.
And he tries to act innocent....
Spain: "We ate all the baby eels? Why no eels left and why so expensive?"
Di daerah sini sangat bnyak sidat 🇮🇩
Catching these should be outlawed. The eels needs to be allowed to grow into adults!
I scrolled and scrolled till I found this comment now I can leave this page lol I was wondering how the heck they grow to have more babies if they're killed as babies
They r endangered too this should all be outlawed
It is outlawed in Portugal as eel populations have been decimated. However spanish illegal buyers pay high prices to local poor Portuguese fishermen. Too sad, really sad.
It's not because of they beung babies its bc they were endangered that this should stop.
@@kittenmimi5326 These two are not mutually exclusive. Being endangered is certainly due in part to them harvesting them at a young age.
It’s interesting how the “regulations” don’t have any catch limits.
It's a seasonal limit. Check 9:07
@@OurLordandSaviorSigmar So all they have to double the catchers to compensate with shorter time and not care about the eel population
Why do rich people eat such nasty foods 🤢🤮
@@OurLordandSaviorSigmar they just spend more time catching them in bulk
Perfect eat all the baby's no more eels job well done.
What morons they are wasting time effort and capturing these lil eels that the guy says has almost no taste and endangered species..
Same with their likeness to baby pigs for cochinillo.
It amazes me how some of these things manage to get so expensive, while other things as equally labor-intensive/ time-consuming/ weather dependent are so low in prices that their owners/harvesters live in severe poverty.
I have noticed this too. I think the difference is where the items of harvested. Fancy mushrooms laboriously grown in NYC basements, fancy European cheeses made from iron rich spring water, those are all very near to rich urban centers whereas the hand harvested specialty fruits with short shelf life coming from rural Mexico or rose pedals harvest and made into perfume in India for a European market either can't get to rich market before perishing or have to go through too many middle men between buyer and harvester. Not sure if the solution is streamline the supply chain or help develop a strong middle and upper class within the countries of origin.
it's more about prestige and preceived market value.
big guys in market want cheap price
Your on CZcams. Aren't all the videos here the same?
Watch the salt farmers in India documentary here in you tube. They work in 100+ degree heat for 6-9 months to build beds in the salt flats , raise the sea water and harvest sea salt. They make average of $3.00 per ton. Yes three dollars for 2000 pounds of salt. The same same we pay $2-4 for per tiny bag or bottle.
These people are treated like trash and raise their kids like this. It's so awful.
It's an absolute shame the eels can't migrate to the local waters. We only have a fraction of the eels in our waters today than we did 20 years ago. People who catch and eat these baby eels are criminals.
so anyone who eats fish is a criminal?
@@A2Cap they are an endangered species mate
overfishing and all
No law being broken I fail to see how it's criminal..
The law allows them to be fish how tf is that a criminal? You want them all suddenly stopped and who’s gonna give them money for the period when they aren’t employed and support their fams? You? Use your small brain to think a bit rather than babbling on things that you have no idea of and never even study about. All you did was see a 14mins of it. You don’t even understand about financial collapses and the aftermath causes.
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If the eels from the Sargasso Sea migrate into the rivers to grow up there and you catch them beforehand, then not enough eels can become sexually mature and reproduce. This is a crime against Nature. Eels only spawn once in their lives. Whoever commits crime is a criminal. One can be ignorant enough to say that no law is broken. But if you have common sense, then you don't do something like that. That's what people do who don't care about anything and want to enrich themselves. The eel populations in our rivers have shrunk by 80% because the offspring are being eaten. It's time to ban the capture of baby eels.
NOT to mention this is how species go extinct, Babies really?!
THIS. like I'd understand if adults but BABIES??? like aren't these supposed to replace the older generation of eels? What happens if the older generation dies and there's no one to replace them?
It’s very regulated to prevent that.
bro its license fisher so goverment knows that
It’s expensive because it’s rare… and it’s rare because it’s nearly extinct due to entitled rich people wanting to eat something poor people can’t.. They have no true happiness in their life so they are constantly looking for something to bring them joy, and make them feel important. It’s ridiculous that it’s legal to catch such an endangered species. Unless they can be farm raised and never need to come from the wild, they shouldn’t be eaten.
It has to be because they look gross 🤢
I wish food was expensive because it is high quality / taste good, NOT because it is on the brink of extinction (and tasteless)
I agree these shouldn’t be eaten but your comment makes no sense. “It’s expensive because it rare because rich people eating them made them rare” well they werent always rare so what was the excuse for back then lol
@@urrealdadlolololol4204 I remember when they were quite expensive but still affordable. Not so long ago maybe 25 years or so. They were delicious, and that's why they became popular, but yeah scarcity is what made them reach this ludicrous prices. Anyway they were always scarce because the actually expensive ones are only from certain rivers in north western Spain, I think it was the demand that grew with rich foreigners buying them.
Lies again? SGD Evil Angel
We served this in a Spanish restaurant I used to work at in early 2000s. So for to those who wonder what it really tastes like. Angulas just tasted like a bland boiled fish in olive oil. That's it..... Back then it wasn't really that expensive. I wonder why the prices have soared. Hmmmnnn.
Thanks now I dont need to buy it I would just eat vermicelli with olive oil and fish
Because they are going extinct
It's about eating something different.
@@kittenmimi5326there is already a broadly available artificial substitute. It has been on the market since 1991. It's called "Gulas" instead of "Angulas" it is made out of fish paste, similar to Surimi and is just as broadly tasteless and narrowly fishy as the real thing, especially when actually prepared, the difference is frankly nonexistent. It's also cheap. Like 5 or 8 euro a kilo.
People on insisting on the real thing, are frankly just being assholes.
(I just got to the part of the video where the imitation version is mentioned)
remember that lobster was fed to prisoners hahahah
What an insane time to be alive.....people are nuts
Agreed.. They are literally flocking around the box with cameras like sheep with some baby eels that been captured like they found some sort of alien life form and documenting the find.. 😐
@@alitharealist4730 it's even said here that these baby eels' taste is not special. It's freaking crazy.
@@rafaelperalta1676 I know right 🙁 this is such a waste they make it out to be something people should come line up for and pay high prices.. most backwards thing i have seen in a while
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It was a dish that although it was always expensive, any one could afford it once in a wild. The decrease in fishing due to contamination and overexploitation as well as the entry of asian buyers have made it rare for any normal spaniard to try it even once in his life. But oddly enough, the substitutes called "Gulas", taste better...
"Why is [X] so expensive?"
[X] : Something nobody has ever heard of
[X]: bullshit, labor intensive, "environmentally sustainable", tax write off.
It's cause we're all too poor lol
I dont know, I feel like this is one of those things that are just expensive for the sake of being expensive and exclusive. Feel kinda bad for the eels being killed @ 10:35
You Feel bad for a fish worm that gets eaten daily by other fish. Wow
@@Wonderouz The fish worm needs to have correct chances at survival, not to be eaten by animals that say they are tasteless and seek profit
It's not "for the sake of being expensive". This is much worse, it's expensive because it is LITERALLY ALMOST EXTINCT meaning nobody should even try to consume this at all until the population returns back to normal.
The slime is literally their protective coating releasing from high amounts of stress and most likely from pain. They don't even taste great nor provide great nutrition. Eels are kind of like cats with some cooperating with other species to hunt intelligently by communicating with body language.
I was shared some of these by the table next to me as they saw me looking to see what they had. It tastes like a very mild eel. Nothing special. No big flavors. They said that they order it all the time as they love the flavor and how exclusive it is. I thanked them for the experience if trying it for the first time but I'll definitely never order them for the price they are going for. Nor will I order them for their flavor. You taste what they are cooked in more than the actual eel flavor.
1: Catch baby eels
2: Do so using labor intensive harvesting
3: Consume said “slaugh…harvest” to experience a non-existent flavor.
Me: “GOOD GOD WE MADE A BREAKTHROUGH WITH THIS LOGIC!”
So they're the shark fin soup of eels? It's entirely a texture thing.
Noo .it's a look I have more money than u and can eat stuff like this which u cannot afford.....thing!!!!
It’s Europe. They will defend and say what they’re doing isn’t as worse as shark fin soup when in reality it’s even worse or equivalent. There are so many European delicacies that fall in this category
It even has the same issue of causing the extinction of eels.
@@hopkinspolly4911 not so sure about Europe before all other regions. I think you will find a lot of these cases when looking into agriculture and fishing worldwide.
Here we are also talking about Spain, where agriculture is also run like Russian roulette (water consumption, Almeria in general). It's insane, but by far not the only country.
Agreed they have no taste, yet high demand and decimating the population of the fish.
💔💔 seeing poor babies getting eaten is the most heartbreaking thing I've ever seen
Yow hold up.
All over the EU countries are being motivated to help save and protect the wild glass eel stocks so that they can find there way upstream. Just a bit shocking this is still going on.
also a fun fact: European eels are about 3 years old when they reach this size, it took 3 years for them to float there way over to the Spanish coast from the east coast of the US where they spawed.
“In total darkness” as their headlamps illuminate everything 😂
That poor guy left hanging at 7:54
Saw that...
I was about to review if I saw what I saw but I said meh...
When they eat babies it's "fancy" and "luxurious", but when I do it's "cruelty" and "cannibalism". We truly live in a society...
similar to whitebait in NZ which are almost extinct now from over fishing. worse, there are people who are upset that fishing of them might be banned so they can recover.
Nature producing long noodles never ceases to amaze me.
Worms, Snakes, Eels, Slugs, Leaches, it's truly something to behold.
It's like living spaghetti.
horsehair worms 👀
They are not produced. They are animals, they are born.
It's a nightmare.
@@nyimakgan there are flying (gliding) snakes
Guinea worms that crawl through your open wounds in the water, lay eggs in you, then erupt out of your skin back into the water 👀
So 1000s of these critically endangered animals are being overfished to make a meal that it doesn't even contribute a taste to...some absolute rich people nonsense
It's not TOTAL DARKNESS. They're wearing lights on their heads! 😂😂😂😂
I wonder if they could set up farms for them and introduce breeded variants back in to the wild.
Up til now, we dont know how they breed.
In Spain the animal right groups like Pacma are against farming sea animals, no other option that overfish them to extintion.
Fish paste imitations seem like a viable option already. “Different taste” is just a myth made up to sell the real thing better. Even if they’re farmed, a lot of people will likely still go for the wild ones just because eating something on the brink of extinction is fancy and expensive
This is another FAIL for humanity
The person who works out how to breed eels in captivity will save both culinary cuisines and the environment!
اجل ان
This kind of insane act of humane is turning disastrous for many living creatures which has a risk of going extinct in very near future
That chef is still struggling for handshake 😭
Breaking one of these rules cost 6000 euros, one kilogram of eels 7000 euros, uhmmm these guys may be breaking the rules?!
poor worms never stood a chance against human greed...
Do you know how much a kilogram is? They only catch like a tenth of that each day, so it would hit them pretty hard.
I've seen glass eels swarming by the thousands during daytime at a bathing beach either at the north sea or the baltic when I was a kid, so hearing that they're worth so much and seeing these guys fishing in apparently super sparse glass eel populations is weird
probably was a needle fish lol
Spanish Baby Eels, lol, i don't even know it's a thing. That's a weird combination of three words I never thought of.
I don't get why people are so obsessed with expensive foods. Especially when it comes to animals. The oceans are overfished, but the human population keeps growing and therefore the demand for sea-animals.
I bet the richest people eat the livers of white sharks and Orca filet...
I'm a rich person and I infuse baby blood into myself to make me younger
Oh, my dog makes those!
I once made those it felt good when they all came out of me at once
wtf
Just one long one for mine
Das nasty
I made one so large once it crested the bowl.
I can’t believe you guys are eating eels when we don’t even know how these guys are made.
Know what you're referring to and still blows my mind we know so much but not entirely that
@Ching Vang ahahaha
Пример того как люди которые не знают куда девать деньги, заставляют работяг - мальков ловить по ночам, стоя по пояс в воде; для того что бы первые могли пощекотать свои рецепторы, а вторые покрыть свои текущие расходы)
Yeah
You think they would catch the fry, raise them to adulthood, and sell them for even greater profit. I’ve seen this method instead in some other videos.
I'd like to try the imitation surimi gulas. I'm thinking 70% of all eaters may not be able to tell the difference.
They are really good, hope you get to taste them someday!
I bet they can tell the difference because the imitation ones TASTE BETTER. Its made with actual fish like pollack and cod. These baby eels are essentially bland because... THEY ARE BABIES.
"little is known about their life cycle" well no shit cause you eat them all before they get a chance to go through their life cycle
Farm your own eels. The wild lives have their their sizable healthy population.
That’s one of the big problems about eels tho, it’s pretty difficult to raise them in farms, and breeding them is basically impossible, so farmers have to source babies/juveniles from the wild.
Honestly there’s no reason we can’t just stop eating these endangered baby eels and let them grow to adulthood. This whole business is nothing but an harmful antiquated tradition and a dick measuring contest for restaurants and the rich. At least the Brits and Japanese eat the adults and let the babies grow
@@Dylan_Otto Japan also has an overfishing problem, the only difference is they farm them from the baby "glass eels" into adult Japanese eels before selling off to restaurants. That's the #1 reason for eel inflation in Japan
@@jonnyhansen8075 Good point. I guess we’re all just better off abstaining from eels, at least until scientists finally crack the breeding issue
@@Dylan_Otto We took the time to study thousands of other marine life, and have found ways to tell if fish are male, female, pregnant or not, and past the age of reproduction, all from looking at the outside of the fish. Why not do the same for eels and figure out how they reproduce, what environment best suits them, and how to raise the numbers. Government restrictions won't make any difference. We're talking about people's livelihood. They won't stop, they have families. Finding a farming solution sounds like the best idea to me
If I had a lot of money, I'd look into whether the areas relevant for their production are for sale. If they are, I'd look into whether it makes money. If so, I'd farm them in "the wild".
Or perhaps laboratory conditions for aquaculture. So it can be industrialized.
In Japan, similar creature called Ikanago are sold real cheap when they're in season. Just import from Japan already.
Murica
Radioactive eels!! 😂😂
There is a fish paste (gulas, instead of angulas) made to replicate this eels but far cheaper and less harmfull, and It is probably tastier. If you got the chance, try both, but if you only get "gulas", kinda even better
This was in the video...
At the very end...@@jellybeansi
@@TheIronalvarohide No, it mentions it in the middle, before the chef prepares the real version, and it says how he needs to be careful not to make them look like the fake version. Not arguing with you about this, rewatch the video, that's all.
I don't remember this but aren't they called Elvers in UK?
Y kill them as babies? Y not raise them to adults and then cook them?
Some I guess eat anything " expensive rare" . Heck shark fin is bland and scales of pangolins made of the same things human nails are...and also things too salty, gross, or smelly if not bland. What rich people do?
@Brian Rigsby... you are really smart you know that!! What you should be saying is why don't they grow them to full adulthood release them into the wild and allow them to spawn and to recover their populations fully and let at least 15 years go by without allowing any poaching or fishing and then resume fishing them. You know you tried to sound smart but you actually are kind of stupid you're not thinking about the survival of the eels you just thinking about raising them to adulthood and then shoving them into your mouth that's killing them and you will still reduce their populations until they're extinct. And then what are the Spaniards going to shove into their mouths? They need to stop being ignorant and stupid and abusive and selfish and greedy and they need to stop fishing these heels until they wipe them out because that is a crime unto nature it is a crime unto nature.
Protect the eels.
Humans are such monsters
You and me brother
Welcome to the club, son. Catching, killing and eating baby animals is honestly REALLY low on the list of all the fucked up stuff humans get up too.
@@MaskedVengeanceTV you are all gay
Yup. No other animal on this planet would even consider eating a baby.
There are many locations that have been researched as glass eel locations in Indonesia, one of which is in Sukabumi district. During the peak season, fishermen can catch many kilograms of glass eel in one night. the price of 1 kilo gram is around Rp. 2000,000
Most people who are involved with the production of things that are So Expensive are shown whinging incessantly about the incredible suckage of their jobs.
What a peculiar food 🍲 to indulge in
7:55 is awkward though. hahahha
lol
... and this is why Anguilla is called what it is. Hehehe
Had a decent time down there on my honeymoon. So honored by my new brother-in-law who offered us a week there. I was planning on a different place and modified it to grab another week off spending half a month on that little island. Was perfect.
With the eel population dwindeling by the year this practice is an absolute disaster.
Can you wait for a little bit longer so that they can grow more and get bigger instead of catching so early . No wonder why they are hard to find .. Let them grow so they can produced even more for the future
We used to have these for Christmas when I was a kid. I'm now 25, I remember I used to love them. However, this was only when I was very small, then I remember my parents told me their price had increased astronomically and we couldn't afford them anymore.
Now I would feel bad to eat them, and probably also a bit disgusted. There was a huge campaign in Spain when I was a kid about not eating fishes that are too small, and I think it was very effective in making a lot of people realise the problems in doing so. I remember as a kid I always asked my parents if a specific fish was big enough to eat after I saw the campaign.
Oh no. We run out of baby eels...
We keep fishing them for higher prices but we don't understand why there is less and less.
Same thing happened with caviar and Wasabi
In the Dominican Republic we are having a sort of "Baby Eel feber" at a very worrting pase, they fish mostly to export it
En inglés es “fever” “worrying” y “pace”
Reminds me of whitebait which is absolutely delicious when deep fried!
We call it 'nylon' in our place and its sold 3usd a kilo
I suspect it's because demand far outstrips supply. That's my guess, and my guess for every one in this series (that I enjoy)
I will pass on this one!
Hard work
Que crack el Manolo
Not that we didn't already know that tobacco kills living organisms, the fact that it did it thar quickly to them is absolutely terrifying
Don't worry kid tobacco is not going to attack and kill you while you are sleeping
Nicotine is a nerve poison. It is mostly about the amount, similar to every other substance. The dosage with nicotine is very low. It has been used historically as a Form of contact poison, at the Same time in Low dosages it is a quite potent stimulant and cognitive enhancer in Low dosages.
One reason is because as long we have been keeping records we have never once witnessed the breeding of Eels. We cannot farm or harvest them; they can only be caught in the wild.
Used to live in 🇪🇸 for 2 years and I’ve never heard of this thing 😅
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Dont come back
Cheers to you from Mars.
In Spain anything goes.
@@ferbsol2334 In Spain anything goes.
this equivalent of NFT for seafood, humanity at its finest......
Oh ok
With all the abundance of food on earth and I don't understand why humans are after such creatures and turn them into food. Even though it tastes of nothing. Sad!!
Simple to have pride
Poor baby 😢
Similar to our white bait here in NZ. Expensive delicacy aswell
maybe I've been too traumatized by those disturbing alien movies and these glass eels makes me feel weird :'>
Insane just like when I was younger we had thousands of Rhinos in the world now there is 0 all gone Humans are disgusting
Can we have a series on things that are surprisingly cheap? That would be more relevant and useful for my life.
Why virgin dodo bird feathers collected by blind Himalayan nuns are so expensive? 👎
Why a tasty street burrito in this bad neighborhood is so cheap? 👍
I think id try eal pie if it was made with these guys 😂
7:54 im just gonna put this here for anyone that hasn't notice 'IT' hahaha
Ooooh glass eels.. really no one knows how to breed these?
idk its juts kinda ridioculous and embarrassing how rich people r constantly looking to exploit things. like these barely taste like anything and are sooo expensive.. like what are we doing catching infant eels that look like straight noodles. it just seems like humans, esp the 1%, are progressively doing more and more purposeless and bizarre things and then claim it as culture, elegance and value. idk, hearing that they taste like nothing confirmed every thought i had.
literally have locals in any country do something for pennies, then talk about how rare and difficult it is to obtain, and slap an outrageous pricetag onto it-- and people just froth at the mouth for it. what r we dooiiiinnggg ugh were so lame
its stupid , they eating eels that haven't reproduce any offspring and complain why there is so little? Let me catching them everyday during the season and complain there is none left. Common sense , doesn't exist these days
Amen.
@@kenfern2259 It's ir It is. Please.
@@joaoalbertodosanjosgomes1536 accountability are humans kryptonite
Rich people will buy literal shit if someone manages to convince them that it is "premium".
Some modern class of people don't went away from their ancient ancesters from neolith era
European governments not being a bunch of hypocrites when it comes to environment (IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE).
This is insane 😥
There are so many interesting jobs in this world!
These people have no clue about math. That was NOT A RECORD PRICE. That was only 5,144 Euros per Kilo. He bought 1,415 grams. The record is 6,620 Euros per Kg
Why almost all illegal trades involve China, like ivory, rhino horns, and now angulas?
Count this as something new I didn't know about this world. I hope it won't be overfished like tuna. The auction reminds me of the first tuna being auctioned off in Japan at the start of the season.
just imagine how much the last tuna will sell for! $$$$$$
Its critically endangered so its already way past being overfished.
Want more sea related videos👍
they're poisoned with tobacco? 🤨
Tabasco, hot sauce
Why are these eels giving me ''the strains'' movie vibe 😵💫😫
Poor people could only imagine what these extremely expensive baby eel tastes like.
how the hell is the european eel a critically endangered species? is it the passenger pigeon of fish?
If some assholes keep fishing entire populations worth of baby eels what do you expect to happen?!
@@jellysquiddles3194 common sense doesn't exist these days . got more money than brains cells
It’s lovely and ironic that the head fisherman speaks so much clearer than the chef dude, whose accent (dialect perhaps) is so far from so called “Castellano”
Catching baby anything for profits and/or to eat just seems very cruel too me.
In my subjective opinion it's catching any kind of life, baby or fully grown, for profits or whatever humans want to do, that I find to be very cruel.
It is bcuz they have no chance to reproduce. But that what human do. This kind of things will affect us in distant future
@@littleboss2006 it's not only that they can't reproduce, it's also the fact that they just can't live a peaceful, free life. Constantly being experimented on, eaten as food, and the many other cruel acts we commit on these animals just isn't fair. Why should they have to go through literal hell for the "benefits" of humans. We clearly seem to find this as cruelty beyond all measures (for the most part) to do this to other humans. So I wish the mentality was expanded across all life.
This fact will ruin your day then. Chicken sold in America at restaurants and the grocery store is only 8-12 weeks old depending on the buyers contract
So weak. Be an asian. Asians dont care these kind of things