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.

      • w3dd1e@lemmy.zipEnglish
        20·
        4 months ago

        Do plants feel pain the way a lobster would? I genuinely don’t know.

        I do know that making an animal suffer rather than giving it a quick death is wrong.

        • Wahots@pawb.socialEnglish
          10·
          4 months ago

          Do plants feel pain?

          From what I’ve read so far, unfortunately, it seems like they might. Plants can communicate with each other and form underground resource networks with other plants, fungi, and microorganisms. Including for illness, boring bugs and pain responses. The smell of fresh cut grass is one of those warning/pain responses.

          I’ve wanted to do some bonsai succulents, but the process towards any living thing seems cruel and painful.

        • Digit@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          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.