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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.

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[–] anarchaos@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

75% of the weight of the crop is fed to animals, but 69% of the crop weight would be industrial waste if it wasn't fed to animals. that's a conservation of resources

[–] Spacenut@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

United States Department of Agriculture. PSD Online. Available at: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/app/index.html#/app/advQuery.{/ref}

The majority (77%) of the world’s soy is fed to livestock for meat and dairy production. 7% is fed directly to animals as soybeans, but the remainder is first processed into soybean ‘cake’.{ref}Soybean cake (sometimes referred to as soybean meal) is a high-protein feed made from the pressurization, heat treatment, and extraction processing of soybeans. The oil is extracted from the soybeans to leave a protein-rich product.

Per the source above, although it's fair if you missed it because it's in the footnotes

[–] anarchaos@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

soybeans are pressed in an oil press. the soybean meal is a byproduct of that process, and if we didn't give it to livestock, it would be industrial waste