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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: 0, Offtopic) by SanityCheck on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:59PM (2 children)

    by SanityCheck (5190) on Saturday January 13 2018, @02:59PM (#621814)

    I often think that eating meat is wrong, but I still do it.

    I do not. So please keep your beliefs out of my life.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by turgid on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:46PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:46PM (#621845) Journal

    I would not allow my precious beliefs to be soiled by your grotty little life. So there.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:55AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:55AM (#623060)

    please keep your beliefs out of my life.

    I agree with you that we shouldn't categorically ban meat farming, but I'll play, uh, Devil's advocate: that isn't a knock-down argument.

    I presume you agree that the government should ban outright deliberate animal cruelty, right? For that matter, we should keep slavery and murder illegal too, right? There you go, you're 'imposing your beliefs'. That's what every law does, and it doesn't make them automatically illegitimate.