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'It is estimated that between 30% and 65% of all people worldwide are infected with Toxoplasmosis. However, there is large variation countries: in France, for example, around 88% of the population are carriers, probably due to a high consumption of raw and lightly cooked meat. [30] Germany, the Netherlands and Brazil also have high prevalences of around 80%, over 80% [31] and 67% respectively. In Britain, about 22% are carriers, and South Korea's rate is only 4.3%.[16]'

Do they not eat a lot of raw and lightly cooked meat in South Korea?
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 5:58, archived)
# i have no idea.
but korean restaurants here cook everything until it's burned beyond recognition, in my small experience in them.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:04, archived)
# I ate still living pieces of octopus when I was there.
It's basically a plate of writhing tentacles. The suckers stick to your tongue while you're chewing them.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:08, archived)
# that's disgusting.
in all ways.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:14, archived)
# The only reason I could stomach it
was when I realised that the tentacles weren't connected to a brain anymore,
so there wasn't any unnecessary suffering.

Also, octopus is usually chopped up, so it wasn't a bizarre or circuitous way of killing it.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:20, archived)
# all meat-eating squicks me out.
but eating obviously intelligent animals also strikes me as hubris.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:30, archived)
# Cephalopods occupy more biomass than primates. They're the dominant species.
I won't eat dolphins, whales, great apes, elephants etc, but I'm more than happy to chow down on some squid or some octopus.

Anyways, they usually only live for a few months, so they don't get to utilise their intelligence past basic survival.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:36, archived)
# that's what they allow you to think.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:48, archived)
# all the while plotting weird new sexual positions.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 6:54, archived)
# I'm allowed to think lots of things.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:01, archived)
# that's what you think.
(I helped save b3ta! postbear has metal knees, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:11, archived)
# You've got me there.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Wed 16 Jan 2008, 7:32, archived)