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Posted on 12/25/2025 11:59:08 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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.
A ban would build on a law introduced by the Conservatives in 2022, which stated that invertebrates including octopus, crabs and lobsters were sentient and felt pain as much as other animals.
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.”
Other changes in a long-awaited Labour strategy announced on Monday include outlawing hen cages and pig farrowing crates, ending puppy farming, consulting on banning electric shock collars for dogs and introducing humane slaughter requirements for farmed fish.
The proposals also tighten the rules on hunting, with a ban on shooting hares during the breeding season and an end to trail hunting, where an animal-based scent trail is laid for dogs to chase while riders follow on horseback.
Labour pledged in its manifesto to extend the 2005 foxhunting ban to trail hunting. Animal welfare charities say trail hunting is being deployed as a “smokescreen” to carry on killing foxes.
Nigel Farage, the leader of Reform UK, said the move was “authoritarian control freakery”. He added: “You might as well ban walking dogs in the countryside as they chase rabbits, hares, deer and foxes.”
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Don’t taze me bro!
Next it will be illegal to kill cockroaches by smashing.
Why not just make it a capital offense if you’re caught killing a lobster before eating eating it? Eat them alive like motorcycle riders eat June Bugs. Makes more sense to me.
I don’t eat lobster anymore, but I don’t want the animal to suffer on the way to my dinner table.
Temple Grandin has done wonders for the care of cattle AND improving the quality of meat. Yea, the cow dies but we don’t have to be barbaric.
Why not just cut the lobster’s head off?
Richard Roose not available for comment.
Lobsters will be given an opportunity to avail themselves of assisted suicide. Otherwise, back to the open waters.
A knife inserted in the back of the head works nicely.
-SB
They ever going to make laws against rape and murder over there? Certainly seems like they’re more interested in banning everything else.
I disagree that they feel several minutes of pain. I don’t think it takes that long for them to die. 15 seconds at most. Maybe the guidance should say put them in head first so their brain boils before they experience too much pain. I don’t really like to eat lobster or crab because it’s hard to get at the edible portion but I think that boiling them while they are still living is the safest way to cook them. You would not know if they were fresh otherwise. And that screaming sound they make is not screaming because they have no vocal cords, it is steam escaping through their carapace.
But what if someone says or writes something offensive and insulting about the lobster? Will they be arrested and fined and imprisoned?
Peach
Oh for pity’s sake. People been boiling lobsters like forevah.
Just leave the room when they squeal and try to claw out of the boiling pot.
Did I make you feel like a monster yet? 🥹
The Brits retake the lead in the World’s Most Stupid Country Contest.
They take an issue like this to show their humanity yet ignore East Asian (Pakistani) rape gangs molesting their children. What a collective scum of a nation Britain has become.
What about swatting flies or slapping mosquitos... Any leeway on those killing methods?
The libtards want to focus on the feelings of lobsters since they aren’t man enough to deal with the rapes, killings, and takeover of their country.
What about the unborn child?
Anything to make English cooking suck even more.
That’s what I was thinking. Couldn’t you just put a knife through its head right before you toss it into the kettle?
Ah... so woke... bring back the old Tudor England that boiled *criminals* (poisoners specifically).
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