The Swiss Federal Council issued an order this week banning cooks in Switzerland from placing live lobsters into pots of boiling water — joining a few other jurisdictions that have protections for the decapod crustaceans. Switzerland’s new measure stipulates that beginning March 1, lobsters must be knocked out — either by electric shock or “mechanical destruction” of the brain — before boiling them, according to Swiss public broadcaster RTS.
The announcement reignited a long-running debate: Can lobsters even feel pain?
“They can sense their environment,” said Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, “but they probably don’t have the ability to process pain.”
Boiling lobsters alive is already illegal in some places, including New Zealand and Reggio Emilia, a city in northern Italy, according to the animal-rights group Viva.
A Swiss government spokesperson said the law there was driven by the animal-rights argument.
>it's legal to kill unborn babies >it's illegal to boil lobsters alive
We sure got our priorities straight...
Brody Turner
>it's legal to kill unborn babies
Can't kill something unborn
Xavier Collins
hoy dogs are next, laws gonna come down saying you need to stun yhem first before boiling, or go to jail.
Samuel Smith
They are not "unborn", they were never born at all. They weren't born YET.
Levi Bennett
You'd describe cake mix which hasn't been baked as "unbaked", you can describe a child which hasn't been born as unborn.
Jacob Howard
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Liam Nguyen
Nobody refers to cake mix as unbaked cake you pleb. Shit argument is shit.
Jaxon Jackson
Not him, but you do know you just agreed with him and helped him make his own point right?.
Bentley Price
This is month old news
Nathan Davis
Is lobsters even got a brain? I will do them anyways.
Jace Clark
>this is cake mix >this is an unbaked cake the first is technically correct, the second is more contextually appropriate
Dylan Evans
>“They can sense their environment,” said Bob Bayer, executive director of the University of Maine’s Lobster Institute, “but they probably don’t have the ability to process pain.” >it's just fine! >t. some cunt on the lobster industry's payroll
Carson Turner
Annnndd...the violation of which will be enforced a little less often than someone smoking a joint at their home in a state where marijuana is illegal.
Go fuck yourself /pol/.
Luke Gomez
basically a sodomy law. whose gonna know
Daniel Taylor
Ask the Indonesians.
Jacob Green
>animal rights group fighting for something that makes no difference for the animal for the sole reason that it probably makes them feel good.
No shocker there.
Andrew Wood
This
Anthony Russell
>it's a "yurostinks go to jail for getting caught eating food on the government-mandated CCTV cameras in their homes" episode another rerun?
Joshua Hill
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Luke Ortiz
I just take them out back and shoot them in the back of the head with a silenced .22. Although it's legal to boil them alive here, Lobster brings out the mobster in me.