On April 24, Japan's Tokyo Shimbun published a report titled "Raven Meat's Raw Food Culture – Challenging the Limits of Wild Meat," describing the author's process of tasting crow sashimi and saying that Japanese sashimi culture "should not be biased against food."
Sashimi is a way to indulge in fresh food, but a controversial topic has recently emerged in Japan – crow sashimi.
Crows have a very important place in Japanese culture, are regarded as "sacred birds three-legged crows", and are protected in Japan. However, in Japanese cities, large-billed crows are predominant, this crow is about 50 centimeters long and has a wingspan width of about 90 centimeters, can hover in the air, and looks like a baby eagle. They act recklessly, destroying garbage bags, attacking humans and even causing untold annoyance to the local population.
Although some people tried to make crow meat into sashimi and believed that "there should be no prejudice against food", this behavior still caused the indignation of many Japanese netizens, many complaining that "eating crows raw? Are you sure you didn't have your brain pumped to do this kind of thing? "Isn't it disgusting to eat raw crows that feed on garbage? "It's scary to look at when cooked, how can you eat it raw?" "Crows are so dirty that they feed on garbage, and even stray cats and dogs do not eat them, and they teach people to eat, what to think." ”
As public opinion continued to ferment, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare also urgently issued an article calling on everyone not to eat crows raw, and Ibaraki Prefecture also came out to refute rumors, saying that there is no local food culture of raw crows.