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.

    • Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      You’ll avoid eating carrion and probiotics and fallen fruit and seeds and nuts? Did you simply overlook other possibilities than harming living things?

      I’m daunted by the possibility some may fall for that false dichotomy, and not mean it in jest.

      Don’t have to be a failed breatharian.

      Can be fruitarian.

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        Seeds and nuts are offspring. Carrion/Roadkill is caused by unsafe/Subaru infrastructure standards and not practical as a law dir everyone without killing a lot of people. Fruit are somewhat fair game, but could also be eaten by wild animals and are unnatural cruel breeds.

        Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.

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          Some seeds (~ and some nuts?) require/want(?) to be imbibed and crapped out, to spread the offspring further, strip the germination inhibiting layer, and provide fertiliser for.

          Avoiding all suffering is embracing death for all. Existing is suffering by necessity.

          Though be careful with that, otherwise suffering can be made a fetish.

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              hence the “(?)” on that linguistic quirk.

              though, some evolutionary biologists and others still would use that expression, that shorthand, without flinching.