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.
Pretty sure that a slowing metabolism in cold water is pretty usual for lobsters.
We should not humanize animals with very different live cycles. Farming figs is cruel by some measure since the fig wasps live cycle would constitute abhorrent torture by our standards.
I was speculating mostly. Wouldn’t freezing them mean that they are still alive when you boil them and they would suffer even more? I know some creatures are resilient like that so I’m not sure.
Regardless, I wasn’t trying to humanize them rather looking at what would be the quickest way to dispatch an animal that would be not only efficient but less cruel?
I would expect the metabolism to adjust too slowly, but do not know. You are throwing them into boiling water after all.