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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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• Re:Philosophy Wasted Re:Philosophy Wasted (Score: 2, Disagree) by frojack on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:42PM (1 child)

  by frojack (1554) on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:42PM (#621969) Journal

  Bullshit with that temperature gradient nonsense, Next time you cook one drop it in slowly tail first. You'l change your mind in one go.

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• Re:Philosophy Wasted (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday January 15 2018, @12:13PM

  by Wootery (2341) on Monday January 15 2018, @12:13PM (#622539)

  No, they do not scream. They don't have lungs, for heaven's sake. The sound is produced by escaping bubbles. This isn't up for debate.

  (The pain question is, of course, a totally separate matter.)

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