Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.
Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will be published.
The practice is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand. Animal welfare charities say that stunning lobsters with an electric gun or chilling them in cold air or ice before boiling them is more humane.
I mean…this should be framed as an attempt at fixing an urban myth: that lobster tastes best when cooked alive.
I worked in restaurants for years and we always killed them quickly and humanely before we boiled them.
To me this is just low hanging fruit.
I had to tactfully shame my mom for this. Asked if she wanted her end to be quick or slow. She didn’t have the capacity to even think of it cause it’s not a possibility. Some folks just don’t really think about others in certain ways.
The usual way of dispatching a lobster is a knife straight in the centre of the brain and cutting forward. Not sure why anyone would want a lobster to be alive when its actually cooked.
After watching Seaspriacy on Netflix, I stopped eating seafood, with exception to dried seaweed.
I’m all for this but how are they going to enforce it on a consumer level?
Good!
With this administration’s track record, I’m half expecting this to turn out to be the justification for putting “lobster-verification” cameras in everyone’s kitchen.
i prefer lobsters that were boiled AFTER they become unalive
LET’S GOOO
Culinary school recommended a quick kitchen knife through the brain immediately before boiling
Good. This may seem like a joke now but slowly over decades people will stop doing this.
I do think the next human milestone would be to realize killing animals for sustenance is wrong, and I’m saying that as a meat eater.
I think “decades” sadly is a bit too optimistic
Most people are happy to eat alternatives provided they are as cheap and taste good. The meat industry can be killed by good vegan food.
I reckon culture-grown meat will be the big one that shifts people away from slaughter meat.
Sure, growing it from a culture will still have people refusing on ethics grounds, but it’s damned sight less suffering.
it’ll be 80 years before this policy reaches Southeast Asia, where they are regularly cutting live frogs in half below the torso with scissors in the markets, tossing all the dying frog torsos together in a big pile. maybe 180 years actually
Why do they cut them that way in particular?
they eat the legs. some folks will cut the head off and some folks will cut down by the torso. the frog will be grabbing at the scissors uselessly. if it bites, they will snip the mouth off. its very quick. grab a frog, snip snip, toss the frog into the pile, repeat. like harvesting a plant
why don’t they all just cut at the head? i have no idea. i think the experience of the animal is simply not considered
I think it’s just the legs that are eaten? Not sure though.
I like this
UK government caring more about lobster welfare than that of trans people.
Maybe time to start identifying as a lobster…
I don’t think you’re allowed to boil trans people alive either
You certainly shouldn’t be eating them
I mean you can eat them if you know what I mean
I have no idea what you mean. Would you be able to provide some study material for me? Perhaps a research paper?
The bad thing is that these goals do not conflict with each other: they could easily do both if they wanted to.
Is this a poorly executed joke or whataboutism.
It’s the Streisand effect, when an ineffectual government actually does something it becomes a reminder of its failures
Not just “trans people”.
Just people.
Not the only category suffering their cruelty and indifference.
I’ve survived several rounds of the culls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvRz8HrEVKY
No fun being dependent on your abuser trying to include you in their democide.
While they are alive and conscious.
That’s why I fill my lobsters with propofol before cooking them. People always say my dinner parties are a snooze. I don’t know why, I always have a good time. Of course, I don’t eat lobster.
Just leave these animals to live their lives however they seem fit. Without unnecessary human interference. As we do have that option.
