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.
(Score: 4, Informative) by acid andy on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:21PM
Whatever thought process you went through, I struggle to see how rigorously rational it could have been.
Most meat eating in humans is mainly a monkey see, monkey do, process. The behavior is subconsciously validated through social norms.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?