Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming

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.

  • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1211·
    1 day ago

    Cats are neither human, nor do they boil their kills just because they can. Cats kill, yes. Cats are murderous little fuckers, yes.

    However the issue the above poster is talking about isn’t about killing of whatever. Or about eating meat. Their point was about doing it in as humane a way as possible.

    • KiloGex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      128·
      1 day ago

      We don’t boil lobsters just because we can, but because we cook our food.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      716·
      1 day ago

      I said felines by the way, so cats AND all others too.

      Have you ever seen lions hunting their prey and eating it from its ass while it is still trying to run away?

      Or playing with their prey before eventually strangling it?

      That’s their way of doing it, it’s gruesome but it’s fine.

      We have our own ways of doing it too, some methods are even considerably more painless than others.

      Also you should note your own use of “humane”, that’s a key point there. All this talk is just human specist nonsense.

      Last but not least, I could even argue (as a human) that it’s ridiculous to judge what killing method is acceptable (and even what is acceptable to eat) based on things like pain, or having a nervous system.

      FUCK YOU AND YOUR SPECIST CRINGE ARGUMENTS! Killing a human, a lobster, a mosquito or a tomato plant is just killing, no matter what lies you tell yourself.