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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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I mean…this should be framed as an attempt at fixing an urban myth: that lobster tastes best when cooked alive.

I worked in restaurants for years and we always killed them quickly and humanely before we boiled them.

To me this is just low hanging fruit.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

After watching Seaspriacy on Netflix, I stopped eating seafood, with exception to dried seaweed.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Scratched fish off my list.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

i prefer lobsters that were boiled AFTER they become unalive

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 5 hours ago

I'm all for this but how are they going to enforce it on a consumer level?

[–] Xero@infosec.pub 5 points 6 hours ago
[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 29 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

With this administration's track record, I'm half expecting this to turn out to be the justification for putting "lobster-verification" cameras in everyone's kitchen.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

"A bobby at every table and a camera in every pot."

  • Liz Truss or something, idk UK politics
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