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Switzerland Bans Lobster Boiling Without Stunning or Killing Them

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 13 2018, @11:51AM   
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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Original Submission

• Easy for them Easy for them (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:01PM (2 children)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:01PM (#621828)

  Easy for a tiny landlocked country. Just how much lobster do they eat?

• Re:Easy for them (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:10PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:10PM (#621832)

  Easy for a tiny landlocked country. Just how much lobster do they eat?

  You forget, Switzerland, tiny it may be, but it's the land of the Gnomes of Zürich [wikipedia.org]

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• Re:Easy for them (Score: 2) by deadstick on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:16PM

  by deadstick (5110) on Saturday January 13 2018, @04:16PM (#621835)

  Ummm...here in Denver I'm five times as far from salt water as Switzerland is, and we get plenty.

  Premium seafood is marketed fast-food style all over Europe; google Nordsee.

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