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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @01:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 13 2018, @01:16PM (#621780)

    Considering how people treat each other all the time, we definately are just plain animals.

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  • (Score: 2) by unauthorized on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:19PM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Saturday January 13 2018, @05:19PM (#621856)

    Considering how people treat each other all the time, we definately are just plain animals.

    I am a fungus Ork-kin you insensitive clod.

  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Monday January 15 2018, @10:12AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Monday January 15 2018, @10:12AM (#622510)

    Not really, no. The very fact that you're able to disdainfully conclude that we're animals, hints that we're not 'just' animals.

    That we're able to exist in such relative peace is truly remarkable. Not something other species would be capable of. (If you doubt that we now live in relative peace, I leave it as an exercise to the reader to learn about how increasingly peaceful our species has become.)