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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    Because people have gone just as far to the left as those to the right. Meanwhile the rest of us are just trying to live our lives with what little we have yet somehow everything we do to make our living easier is an inconvenience to those on both extremes.

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      This is a left/right thing?!! WTF? This just a food thing and if you are left/righting it you are a world-class dolt!

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        Nah, people that say this (horseshoe theory etc) are exclusively right wing and are grasping at straws to claim we’re just like them.

        Which we’re not.

        I’d even kill Nazis quickly.

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      with what little we have

      Like lobster.

      Who will think about the poor individuals that can only afford lobster and a pot, but not a freezer?