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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.

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[–] IndieGoblin@lemmy.4d2.org 10 points 2 hours ago

Good. This may seem like a joke now but slowly over decades people will stop doing this.

[–] BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Devial@discuss.online 25 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

UK government caring more about lobster welfare than that of trans people.

[–] trk@aussie.zone 28 points 4 hours ago

I don't think you're allowed to boil trans people alive either

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 23 points 5 hours ago

The bad thing is that these goals do not conflict with each other: they could easily do both if they wanted to.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 18 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

It's just silly that this is still a thing in almost 2026. It's so obvious even Hitler banned it, and he was no animal rights activist.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

He actually was, despite his horrific treatment of human beings.

[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours ago

More formally, on May 15, 1942, the Nazis issued an order instructing all Jews to bring all of their pets to collection points where they would be euthanized.

Of course if animals were in the care of the "wrong" human beings then they had to be killed. Fascist ideology has always, and will always, be an incoherent mess of contradictions in service of bigotry.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Well, I'll be damned.

I'll need to read up on this.

[–] demonmariner@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 hours ago

Hitler was a maniac and a despicable person, but I seem to remember reading that he was vegetarian and at least liked dogs. Maybe he was an animal rights activist, provided that you didn't consider humans animals.

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[–] PokerChips@programming.dev 20 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

The amount of people that are in knots trying to defend a barbaric practice is quite telling.

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[–] NachBarcelona@piefed.social 7 points 7 hours ago
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