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.

  • BigAssFan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    124·
    9 hours ago

    Just leave these animals to live their lives however they seem fit. Without unnecessary human interference. As we do have that option.

    • Moolam@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
      41·
      4 hours ago

      Dont know if you’re only referrung to lobsters or all animals but strictly speaking, humans are also animals and letting everyone live life as they see fit is already the default if you will. That includes letting people who want to cook lobsters do that

    • Gladaed@feddit.orgEnglish
      21·
      5 hours ago

      I.e. prohibit all hunted meats? Then say that. But this is not a practical solution.

      • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
        73·
        3 hours ago

        Yes.

        Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether.

        It is the only solution, it is not actually that difficult, and it is an inevitable outcome of human development.

        In a few centuries, humans will look at today’s animal explotation the same way we look at cannibalism and slavery.

        • remon@ani.socialEnglish
          1·
          47 minutes ago

          Start with prohibiting animal farming, then ban animal murder alltogether.

          That certainly would be an interesting civil war.

        • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          1 hour ago

          In a few centuries, humans will look at today’s animal explotation the same way we look at cannibalism and slavery.

          some already do, but most people who have heard this argument are not convinced of it, so I doubt this is how things will turn out

        • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          I really don’t think we’ll ever stop eating animals. We’ve been doing it for hundreds of thousands of years, it’s practically part of our DNA. Why would we stop now? Vegans haven’t made a lot of progress convincing people, that’s for sure

          • balsoft@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 hour ago

            We’ve done a lot of other awful things since forever: forced child “marriages” (or just sexual abuse before then), child exploitation, some form of slavery, have all been a thing for millenia. And yet many societies now frown upon those, punish the perpetrators and help the victims.

            What makes you think this (or other awful shit we still do) will be any different?

            All those actions are no more or less “in our DNA” then meat consumption.

            And, well, vegans have convinced some non-trivial amount of people, as you can deduce by the fact that many companies put “vegan” stickers on their products, because they think it will increase their profits.