#奇妙的动物 #
Among the many poisonous marine products, the puffer fish can be regarded as the most poisonous, and its toxicity is 275 times stronger than cyanide. Many Japanese still consider puffer fish to be a delicious delicacy, costing $150 per person for an all-blown puffer fish meal. True gourmets know that puffer fish liver is the best taste, but unfortunately the toxins of pufferfish are also concentrated here, and Japanese law prohibits restaurants from cooking puffer fish liver for sale. Some people, in order to satisfy their appetite, do not hesitate to beg the chef with a dead face, and even bribe or intimidate. As a result, although they have to taste the delicacies, they often lose their lives because of it.
Poisoned by eating puffer fish, he died in extreme pain. The toxin first invaded the nervous system, and the first sign was a tremor and tingling of the mouth and lips, followed by numbness in the hands and feet, and almost paralysis.
A Japanese restaurant owner said: "The poisoned person is still very clear-headed, but his limbs are paralyzed, he can't sit up, he can't speak, his whole body can't move, and he soon stops breathing." "Death occurs within minutes to 6 hours of poisoning, and there is currently no way to detoxify it."
If the chef handles it properly, it is quite safe to eat puffer fish meat. It's just that no one can tell if it's absolutely safe before eating. Since the Japanese government legislated strict control over restaurants, the mortality rate from puffer fish poisoning has been greatly reduced. However, in the past decade, about 200 Japanese people have lost their lives for eating puffer fish.
Puffer fish are not only produced in Japanese waters, but are found all over the world, with a total of about 100 species, most of which are as deadly and poisonous as the Japanese pufferfish.
The pufferfish looks strange and ugly, with huge protruding eyes, large nostrils, and funny teeth, but it bites through clam shells and crab shells, and even breaks the fisherman's hook and fishing wire. Pufferfish have no ribs or discs, do not swim around like other fish, often drift lazily with the water, and usually swell twice as large when attacked.
The Japanese love puffer fish, call the puffer fish a dear little baby, pray to the puffer fish, and make statues for the puffer fish. The fish is ugly, poisonous and deadly, yet the Japanese spend as much as $50 million a year on pufferfish.