Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.

Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will be published.

The practice is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand. Animal welfare charities say that stunning lobsters with an electric gun or chilling them in cold air or ice before boiling them is more humane.

  • rouxdoo@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    It’s a fucking bug! Boil it and eat the shit already.

    I worked at Red Lobster for a number of years as a young’un. A large part of my work in the prep kitchen initially (after I graduated from the dish ring) was to slice live Maine lobs in half to make “princess lobsters” (half a lobster with body cavity stuffed with yummy). These stupid bugs are no more sentient than a cockroach that you smash with a shoe.

    Why would anyone spend even a second considering the feelings of a fucking bug?!

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      3 months ago

      What if they feel every moment? Can’t go out of your way for 2 minutes to potentially reduce the suffering?

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        3 months ago

        Yes, they feel every moment until the knife slices their pea-sized nerve center of a brain in half. That took about 1/2 of a second. It’s done and now we can eat.

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      3 months ago

      Because people have gone just as far to the left as those to the right. Meanwhile the rest of us are just trying to live our lives with what little we have yet somehow everything we do to make our living easier is an inconvenience to those on both extremes.

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        3 months ago

        This is a left/right thing?!! WTF? This just a food thing and if you are left/righting it you are a world-class dolt!

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          Nah, people that say this (horseshoe theory etc) are exclusively right wing and are grasping at straws to claim we’re just like them.

          Which we’re not.

          I’d even kill Nazis quickly.

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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        3 months ago

        with what little we have

        Like lobster.

        Who will think about the poor individuals that can only afford lobster and a pot, but not a freezer?