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.

  • baconsunday@lemmy.zipEnglish
    51·
    4 hours ago

    Which one is natural? A lobster fighting another lobster in its natural environment, or a human stuffing them into a pot of boiling water?

    Here, let’s meet up and we can test both on you to see which you think is more cruel.

    Then you wrap it up with a fat paragraph of whataboutism. You’re dwindeling.

    • the_crotch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      22·
      3 hours ago

      Which one is natural? A lobster fighting another lobster in its natural environment, or a human stuffing them into a pot of boiling water?

      Both. Humans are animals, everything we do is natural.

      • baconsunday@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        2 hours ago

        That is completely incorrect. Operating a car is not natural, it is learned and a privilege. Flying a plan is not natural, it is earned, and heavily regulated which is why not everyone can be one.

        Even replying on here though a magic rock that somehow converse to any area of the earth, not natural.

        You need to open a dictionary and start learning words. I hate to shit on you in a reddit behavior way, but you sound dillusional.