I don’t understand the benefit of keeping them alive as they boil.
As for keeping them alive until boiled, they taste better, and have been known to taste better at least as far back as the Romans - not to mention that while alive, their immune system keeps a kind of bacteria that grows on them in check, and that bacteria can cause food poisoning within an hour or so.
Thank you, both.
If you chopped their head off or electrocuted them just as you through them into already boiling water, I would imagine the bacteria would not be a problem, correct?
“They don’t stay alive as they boil. They are dropped into boiling water, which kills them rather quickly.”
I hear dropping them in the water back first kills them instantly. Plus, their brains are so small they’re likely already dead before they can process the pain. Another completely useless law that will do more harm than good when someone deals with the food poisoning bacteria causes as you mentioned.