How To Produce Caviar Without Killing: Sturgeon Massage
Beluga sturgeon The beluga or European sturgeon is the source of beluga caviar, and is critically endangered. Robbie Cada via Wikimedia Commons Most caviar, especially the high-end stuff, comes from sturgeons, long-lived fish that die when their eggs are forcibly removed. It can fairly be said that eating caviar is unsustainable at best, since sturgeons are the most critically endangered group of animals, with 85 percent of sturgeon species at risk of extinction. When German researcher Angela Köhler visited an Iranian caviar facility a few years back, she came face-to-face with a 30-year-old, 10-foot-long sturgeon that was being "harvested," as reported by Civil Eats: “They brought in a huge female wild catch. They anesthetized it by a blow on the head, cut it open, and there were 7-8 kilos of caviar inside. They said, ‘this caviar is too...