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Boiling lobsters alive to be banned in animal cruelty crackdown
Mirror UK ^ | December 23, 2025 | Alexander Brown

Posted on 12/26/2025 7:11:09 AM PST by Red Badger

Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will soon be published in the Animal Welfare Strategy.......

Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned in a bid to improve animal welfare in England.

Government ministers say that “live boiling is not an acceptable killing method” for crustaceans and alternative guidance will soon be published. It forms part of the Government’s long-awaited Animal Welfare Strategy which sets out a raft of policies to improve the lives of pets and animals on farms and in the wild.

Boiling lobsters alive is already illegal in Switzerland, Norway and New Zealand, and 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.

Ben Sturgeon, chief executive of the charity Crustacean Compassion, welcomed the plans, saying: “When live, conscious animals are placed into boiling water, they endure several minutes of excruciating pain. This is torture and completely avoidable. Humane alternatives, like electrical stunning, are readily available.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mirror.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: crustaceans; england; peta

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To: Danie_2023

True. For those curious:

The ban was formally included in the Reichstierschutzgesetz (Reich Animal Protection Act) passed on November 24, 1933.

Animal experiments were also made illegal, while human ones were not.


21 posted on 12/26/2025 7:35:53 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Red Badger

Crustaceans are generally halal in Islam, especially Sunni.

Shia have a split.

You’re thinking of kosher.


22 posted on 12/26/2025 7:37:58 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: ICE-FLYER

The UK no longer allows fox hunting...


23 posted on 12/26/2025 7:40:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

They need to insert a tazer switch...similar to the temp insert in Butterball Turkeys.


24 posted on 12/26/2025 7:43:05 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: TheThirdRuffian
"Shia have a split."

In Islam, the side with the most swords wins.........


25 posted on 12/26/2025 7:44:40 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger
Eating lobster is haram.

Wait'll they ban beer.

26 posted on 12/26/2025 7:46:06 AM PST by Salman (Trump is good, but we need Pinochet. )
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To: TheThirdRuffian

“”Animal experiments were also made illegal, while human ones were not.””

***

Thus proving the olde saying... ‘nothing new under the sun’. With leftists, it’s all the same ole evil repeating itself throughout the history of mankind... and all from the same “source”.


27 posted on 12/26/2025 7:46:28 AM PST by Danie_2023
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To: Salman

All alcohol................


28 posted on 12/26/2025 7:47:07 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Red Badger

Bfl


29 posted on 12/26/2025 7:47:09 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: Red Badger

If they ban abortion I’ll believe they are serious

Maryhabstwart recommends giving the lobsters vodka. The babies? Not even novacaine


30 posted on 12/26/2025 7:48:02 AM PST by stanne
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To: Red Badger
Crustaceans like lobsters, crab, shrimp and prawns, and mollusks like oysters , clams and marine snails, are not halal foods,...

Muzzies don't know what's good.

31 posted on 12/26/2025 7:52:27 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Dalberg-Acton

When you’re out of Schlitz…

Back in the day my mother kept trying to find a beer to have on hand that my brother wouldn’t take and deplete her supply

Schlitz Lite was it.


32 posted on 12/26/2025 7:52:45 AM PST by stanne
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To: Sirius Lee

What would they say about eating live oysters?............


33 posted on 12/26/2025 7:52:59 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: HIDEK6

MORE FOR US!................


34 posted on 12/26/2025 7:53:18 AM PST by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: Sacajaweau

Believe it or not Butterball Turkeys do not have the pop up temperature probes anymore. I bought one at Costco a few weeks ago and tossed it into the freezer for Christmas dinner. I cooked it yesterday and was quite surprised not to see one sticking into the Turkey breast. What’s the World coming too, LOL.


35 posted on 12/26/2025 7:53:47 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: stanne

Maryhabstwart

Oh geeze

Martha Stewart


36 posted on 12/26/2025 7:54:21 AM PST by stanne
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To: HIDEK6

“What do they say about dismembering a human baby?”

Don’t go there. I just had images of aborted baby parts being dropped in boiling water as an acceptable substitute to them.


37 posted on 12/26/2025 8:01:53 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: Red Badger
Reminds me of the villain in "One Crazy Summer". He boiled the Lobsters, and used a stethoscope to hear them scream...


38 posted on 12/26/2025 8:04:16 AM PST by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Ask about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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To: bigfootbob

So many changes...how will we survive...


39 posted on 12/26/2025 8:09:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

Lobsters are boiled alive primarily for food safety to prevent rapid bacterial growth and toxin release from their decaying flesh, which causes severe food poisoning. This practice ensures freshness and quality, as live lobsters harbor harmful bacteria like Vibrio that multiply quickly after death and aren’t always destroyed by cooking.

wy69


40 posted on 12/26/2025 8:19:32 AM PST by whitney69 (`)
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