A video revealing a method for harvesting caviar has left social media users “uncomfortable”.

There’s an argument that if you couldn’t kill it yourself, you shouldn’t do it. eat well, if you take that into consideration after seeing how caviar is harvested, most of us certainly wouldn’t reach for a pot of fish eggs anytime soon.

Vegetarians and vegans, look away:

Various videos have appeared online revealing how caviar is harvested and, to put it lightly, it’s hard not to vomit while watching them.

A video common has Reddit the r/interestingasf**k thread from a user called u/jellylemonshake shows a sturgeon’s belly with a small hole and a metal instrument opening it, eggs leaking out of the space into a bucket of dark caviar beneath as a hand moves up and down the fish’s body.

The caption of the video says: “Beluga caviar, 1 kg of which is sold for $7,500is obtained by processing sturgeon.

Indeed, Caviar Star – yes, it’s actually the name of a website – explain Caviar can be harvested in a variety of ways, but there are two that are the most common.

The “conventional harvesting method” involves killing the fish, but the “no-kill” harvesting method – shown in the Reddit video – sees the fish cut open and eggs removed before the fish is then returned to the sea.

The eggs are extracted either by the “Caesarean method” – “a small incision” made and the eggs “carefully evacuated” or by the “viva method”, an incision made before a “fish milking technique” takes place – as seen in the Reddit video below.

This process may also result in the use of hormonal therapy to “alter the reproductive techniques of fish farming” to make egg collection easier.

One user said: “And what do you do for a living? »

“I’m a fish lover,” replied another.

A third wrote: “This makes me uncomfortable. »

“Wait so they didn’t kill the fish. Which implies they just stuck some metal thing in there, it’s fish and they squirt the eggs that way…? …uhg ” added a fourth.

A fifth said: “It’s actually a bit sick that we do this as humans. »

“Maybe we don’t need to do this then,” suggested a sixth.

And a resolute finale: “I’m not a vegetarian by any means, but I always think about how I would feel if aliens came down and did to us what we do to life on this planet.”

So, what do you think?