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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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[–] Drahngis@feddit.dk 154 points 2 days ago (57 children)

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

Humans are the worst.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago (43 children)

Most killing involves pain, all meat requires killing.

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[–] Devial@discuss.online 41 points 2 days ago (9 children)

UK government caring more about lobster welfare than that of trans people.

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 31 points 2 days ago

The bad thing is that these goals do not conflict with each other: they could easily do both if they wanted to.

[–] YeahIgotskills2@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Maybe time to start identifying as a lobster....

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 184 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Honestly that seems pretty reasonable. Boiling things alive is pretty barbaric.

[–] jimmy90@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I mean... its not really banning Halal slaughter.

Its adding a step to it.

Around 88% of animals slaughtered in the UK for Halal are stunned first. All animals slaughtered under the Shechita (for Kosher) are non-stunned.

Just gotta get that 88% up higher toward 100%, of stunning them (ie, obliterating their frontal lobe, I think?)... and also put that step into play for Kosher slaughter as well.

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I like this

[–] citizensongbird@lemmy.world 68 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Will always be funny to me that lobsters are such an expensive delicacy at fine dining restaurants when they started out as food for extremely poor people in coastal communities. In the old days the general public viewed eating them as you would view eating a rat today.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Oysters have made the switch between poor people food and rich people food quite a few times. Tuna has made the switch in my lifetime. It probably has something to do with how easy they are to harvest/catch when plentiful versus the results of overfishing, and how delicate the food is in the supply chain.

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[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

While they are alive and conscious.

That's why I fill my lobsters with propofol before cooking them. People always say my dinner parties are a snooze. I don't know why, I always have a good time. Of course, I don't eat lobster.

[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 35 points 2 days ago (23 children)

The amount of people that are in knots trying to defend a barbaric practice is quite telling.

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