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) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 14 2018, @02:23AM (1 child)
Steam escaping the shell
(Score: 2) by Pav on Sunday January 14 2018, @06:58AM
If they're anything like painted crayfish on the great barrier reef the squeel is meant to attracts sharks, so perhaps it's like the light flashes of deep sea creatures. The predator of your predator is your friend.