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.

  • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    204·
    4 hours ago

    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.

      • rbesfe@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        The proper term for parliamentary systems is just “government”.

        • sunbytes@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Oh, then that.

          I didn’t realise they weren’t interchangeable. They feel a lot like administrators.

          I didn’t want to be as vague as saying “these twats” to a possibility international audience.