Move is part of a long-awaited Labour strategy including outlawing hen cages and ending puppy farming

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.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Yeah that is how I understand it too. Could freeze them to death I presume, not sure how easy it is to kill them by freezing and not turn them into a solid block, or if you did freeze them solid how different it is to cook from frozen.

    I can get free crab if I catch them myself, usually small ones but I have seen spider crabs at the shore. But prawns are tiny, even a shore crab has more meat than a prawn. Then use left overs for stock?