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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 Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:55AM
I agree with you that we shouldn't categorically ban meat farming, but I'll play, uh, Devil's advocate: that isn't a knock-down argument.
I presume you agree that the government should ban outright deliberate animal cruelty, right? For that matter, we should keep slavery and murder illegal too, right? There you go, you're 'imposing your beliefs'. That's what every law does, and it doesn't make them automatically illegitimate.