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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: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:11PM (7 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday January 13 2018, @06:11PM (#621872) Homepage

    This is like how people say that lobsters "scream" when you drop them in the pot, but that "screaming" is actually some mechanical/thermodynamic action of the temperature gradient on the lobster's body (escaping air or some shit) rather than the lobster's reaction to whatever "pain" it may be feeling.

    It would be equally silly to suggest that you broke your own hand just because you cracked your knuckles.

    Jesus Christ, it's basically a fucking bug. A sweet, tasty bug, with lots of garlic and drawn butter. Would you feel bad for swatting a fly?

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

    by frojack (1554) Subscriber Badge 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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    • (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.)

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:57PM

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:57PM (#621974) Journal

    I prefer human meat. Yum.

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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:57PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 13 2018, @10:57PM (#621975) Journal

    Why in the hell would you want to eat bugs when you can eat human meat?

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    • (Score: 2) by arslan on Monday January 15 2018, @11:37PM (1 child)

      by arslan (3462) on Monday January 15 2018, @11:37PM (#622843)

      Cause humans have bad BO...

    • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:52AM

      by Wootery (2341) on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:52AM (#623059)

      The only rigorous solution to this is for you to try lobster, and for me to try human meat. Then we can compare notes.

      ...you first.