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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: 2) by Wootery on Monday January 15 2018, @10:12AM
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.)