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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: 2) by turgid on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:09PM (5 children)

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:09PM (#621791) Journal

    That's down right psychopathic and cruel.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:15PM (2 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:15PM (#621794) Journal

    What i heard was that babies feel the pain, but have no long-term, lasting memory of it, so hey, no problem.

    Circumcise them because, hey yeah they're crying like hell now, but in 5 minutes "Give me boob!", so what me worry?

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    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:27PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:27PM (#621884)

      Some of them may remember in other ways. It's just like those people with memory problems: http://www.fearexhibit.org/brain/memory/claparedes_pinprick_experiment [fearexhibit.org]

      In 1911, a French doctor named Edouard Claparede published his observations of an amnesiac patient. Despite repeated interactions with the woman, sometimes only minutes apart, Claparede had to reintroduce himself every time he reentered the room; the patient never recognized him as someone she'd met.

      During one of their "introductions," Claparede hid a tack in his palm and pricked the patient when they shook hands. The next time they "met," the patient refused to shake Claparede's hand though she couldn't explain why since she did not recall ever having met the doctor.

    • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:58AM

      by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:58AM (#623061)

      Circumcision is a great example, actually.

      Babies don't cry after circumcision. Why? They enter a state of shock.

      Some people like to pretend they're 'just sleeping'. Sickening delusion.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:27PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:27PM (#621799)

    It took me a bit to find this again, but they would even go so far as to report the mother as abusive if they objected:

    One mother I spoke with who realized anesthesia would not be used for her daughter’s surgery refused to sign the consent form. The operation was performed anyway and the mother was reported to local authorities as an abusive parent.

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1523-536X.1986.tb01023.x/full [wiley.com]

    Lots of good sources here:
    http://www.nocirc.org/symposia/second/chamberlain.html [nocirc.org]