Man was only given permission to kill and eat animals for food after the Flood. One of the conditions is that an animal (meaning bird or land mammal) must be Halakhically dead (ie, its limbs must stop moving) before it is butchered. Otherwise limbs are being cut from a Halakhically live animal, and eating such food is forbidden (it is a capital offense to eat food taken from an animal while that animal is still alive; it is forbidden from the Sages to eat such meat even after the animal has died, though this is not a capital offense).
All governments should see to it that all food animals are killed in accordance with universal Divine Law. As I understand it, the eater is held responsible only if he knowingly eats such meat. But it can't be a good thing to eat it even not knowing.
Most authorities (not all) hold that food slaughtered in accordance with the laws of Jewish ritual slaugther are permitted for non-Jews. I don't know the status of islamic ritual slaughter, but my instinct is that there are only two approved systems of ritual slaughter and "halal" isn't either one.
Yeah. What’s highly disturbing about Korea/Japan/China is their distinct tendencies to eat animals live.
Like eating live baby octopi, or lightly searing a live fish and then tearing the still wiggling flesh from it’s bones.
Made me sick to my stomach to see them do it.