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.

  • ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    233·
    42 minutes ago

    I’ve heard a lot of the world’s worst people use that as an excuse to do the most horrible things, and I despair that so many people readily embrace it as a validation.

    We are animals but we are different than every other animal, and we can be better and do better, and if holding yourself to a higher standard because you were born with sapience is too inconvenient, I’m sure there are some political and ideological groups out there who would love to have you.

    edit: I regret spending any time responding to the obvious trolls in this post. Block and move on people. If you ever find yourself having to argue that we’re better than animals, you’re not arguing with someone participating in good faith.

    • Kami@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      514·
      7 hours ago

      LOL so being against your perspective means validating the worst of humanity? Wow! Such arrogance…

      We can “do better” from our own perspective. We are “sapient” from our own perspective.

      I’m sure there are also a lot of groups of disgusting people you could fit, but how is that relevant? Is it just that you lack arguments and you resort to insulting a person that you don’t know? Is this what you call being “born with sapience”?

      What a petty animal you are…

      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        To be very crass, animals also rape other animals, and I hope to god that you will not use “but we are animals” as an argument there as well.

        We are different from other animals in that we are moral agents. We can know the difference between good and bad. That makes us responsible to act upon that difference, too.