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.

  • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Not true.

    As at least one commenter said already, meat can be extracted without killing.

    And further, you can wait for something to die of natural causes, and then you get the meat.

    And now, arguably, “meat” can be made in a lab. Perhaps suppressed secret tech already has star-trek style replicators.

    At least 3 distinct ways of meat without killing.

    At a stretch… seeds and mushrooms can be considered/called “meat”.

    Probably more ways yet I’ve not thought of.