The cruelty of this dish is:
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Living food: Use newborn live rat pups (mostly mice or pups) as ingredients.
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Process description: when diners hold a live rat cub with red-hot iron-headed chopsticks, it will make the first "squeak" scream. When dipped in seasoning, the rat cub will make a second "squeak" when stimulated. When finally bitten into the diner's mouth, the rat cub will make a third "squeak". This is the origin of the "three cheep" name.
What needs to be clarified and emphasized is:
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Illegal and immoral: This kind of behavior of eating live animals and deliberately causing pain is illegal in China, and has been strongly condemned by all walks of life and the vast majority of the public. It is an extreme disregard and cruelty to life.
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Non-mainstream food culture in no way represents Chinese food culture. China has a long, rich and healthy diet tradition. It pursues the harmony of color, aroma and shape, emphasizes the freshness of ingredients and cooking skills, but never recognizes and tolerates this cruel behavior.
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Extremely high health risks: Eating live or unquarantined animals can easily spread plague, hemorrhagic fever and other deadly diseases that are zoonotic, posing a serious threat to public health safety.
Conclusion:
The "three squeaks" is a cruel bad habit that should be completely abandoned and criticized. It violates the law, violates human morality, deviates from the principle of healthy diet, and also runs counter to the true spirit of Chinese food culture. We should advocate a modern lifestyle that respects life, cares for animals, and is healthy and civilized.