Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming

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.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    LOL-Ouch!

    Reading this

    It frightens me that we can’t 100% agree that boiling a living thing that feels pain, is bad.

    Humans are the worst.

    the very next thing after having just finished writing:

    provided that you didn’t consider humans animals

    And it’s daunting how many people are in a popularised fervour of seeing their misanthropy as a virtue, unwitting of the historical company they keep; unwitting of the totalitarianising psyche they have more than a toe in with that shit. Nor how dangerous and wrong and deluding that is. Horrors, even the worst horrors, propped up with fallacies in service of inverting reality, making atrocities seen as necessary virtues. Especially the animals=good people=bad crowd.

    The worst, eh?

    Maybe study more nature before throwing around such dangerous hyperbole.