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.
Pain is universally bad you fucking psycho, all sentient creatures have “experience” of some kind and pain and suffering is a tool meant to make things avoid harm so it’s more than reasonable to assume that other creatures experience it. In fact, you don’t need to assume, we’ve FUCKING STUDIED IT. Have you? have you done ANY research yourself to base this schizoid take on? We are a higher creature with greater awareness and have some measure of responsibility to reduce suffering in the world.
Your argument can be extended to dogs and cats and babies. Which was an actual argument back in the day and they performed surgery on infants without anesthesia because “they didn’t have a concept of pain” according to people who cited vibes and an avoidance of inconvenience.
edit: saw your moderation history, I regret spending even a moment replying to you. At least I’ll never see another comment of yours.