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Switzerland Bans Lobster Boiling Without Stunning or Killing Them

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 13 2018, @11:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the lobster-prod dept.

takyon writes:

You can no longer boil a lobster alive in Switzerland, unless you stun it first:

The Swiss government has ordered an end to the common culinary practice of throwing lobsters into boiling water while they are still alive, ruling that they must be knocked out before they are killed.

As part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws, Bern said that as of 1 March, "the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water, which is common in restaurants, is no longer permitted". Lobsters "will now have to be stunned before they are put to death," the government order read.

According to Swiss public broadcaster RTS, only electric shock or the "mechanical destruction" of the lobster's brain will be accepted methods of stunning the animals once the new rule takes affect.

Also at BBC.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by turgid on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:00PM (3 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:00PM (#621788) Journal

    You make some good points, but some animals have more capacity for human-like thought than others. For example, the great apes, monkeys, whales and dolphins, many birds such as corvids and parrots, octopuses, dogs etc. The harder we look, the more surprises we find. We should err on the side of caution.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:26PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:26PM (#621859)

    Great apes? I guess that's why I'm not supposed to cook and eat my neighbor? Except, he's not so great an ape. His daughter, though - she's pretty great if you ask me! She doesn't even need cooking!