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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    9 days 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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      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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        9 days ago

        Lobsters don’t have a centralised brain. Shows just how much you know about lobsters.

        No matter how many of them you have killed and cooked, that clearly doesn’t make you a biology expert…

        So basically everything you said, can be discarded as an uninformed garbage opinion.