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.

  • Galactose@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1232·
    11 months ago

    So this is an important issue ? & not the abolition of monarchy or the age-verification act ?

      • Galactose@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        310·
        11 months ago

        Yeah if you consider censorship to be a non-issue. Trees are living things too remember.

        • dizzy@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          11 months ago

          What other unrelated topics do you wish to discuss?

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      112·
      11 months ago

      We can never do anything except the one thing you find most pressing? We have to focus 100% of every single ressource to your specific issue?

        • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
          81·
          11 months ago

          If you really feel like commenting, why not answer my question instead of trying to delfect like a smartass? Can we only focus on your single issue? Is it not possible to do more than one thing at a time in politics?