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.

  • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
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    It was never stated or implied that boiling water is unnatural.

    Using boiling water to cook food is also natural.

    You’re putting a notion in that was never there.

    Pardon me going a little off topic, but I can’t get over how bad this sentence is.

    better reading comprehension

    Work on your writing next.

    boiling a living creature —> alive <---- is not a ‘natural’ thing in human nature.

    Is ‘natural’ in single quotes because you’re using your own personal definition of ‘natural’?

    Looking at every other carnivore on the planet, I’d say that empathizing with our food is less ‘natural’ than killing it painfully.