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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: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:23PM (3 children)
"The Swiss government also said it would no longer be permitted to transport live marine crustaceans like lobsters on ice or in icy water, ruling instead that they should “always be held in their natural environment”.
The government order also aims to crack down on illegal puppy farms and imports, and ban devices that automatically punish dogs when they bark."
Looks like a classic case of bleeding hearts imposing their world view on others in order to feel better about themselves.
So, how does this make the world better in any significant way. And what else did not happen because of this distraction?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aclarke on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:34PM (2 children)
That's one of the great things about Switzerland. They pretty much have things together, so they can focus on issues that other, less civilized, countries are a long way from.
You don't like what the Swiss are doing? OK, don't go there. That's pretty easily resolved, isn't it.
I don't agree with everything Switzerland (or any country) does. I do, however, respect the fact that overall they've decided what country they want to be, and they're fairly unapologetic about aiming themselves toward that goal. I'd rather have a group of people focus on being kinder to animals than arguing over the most effective way to avoid providing medical care to poor people, or blow up others who don't quite agree their particularly narrow religious outlook.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)
I'm happy to hear they have fixed their more pressing problems.
They certainly had a sorted history to fix, for example:
The Nobel peace prize exists to rebrand the reputation of Mr Nobel from an inventor of arms.
Until recently, their banking system was the go to place for laundering and hiding ill gotten gains. Just ask the Germans from WWII.
Hopefully all that sort of stuff is in the past and you are correct that they are just doing minor tweaks.
Still, given that the rest of the world is so far behind, could they better use their time thinking of something constructive to help this instead?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday January 14 2018, @08:43AM
What exactly does this have to do with Switzerland?
What exactly did you not understand from "I don't agree with everything Switzerland (or any country) does. I do, however, respect the fact that overall they've decided what country they want to be, and they're fairly unapologetic about aiming themselves toward that goal."?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford