Switzerland Outlaws Boiling Live Lobsters

Consider the lobster, and, when in Switzerland, definitely don’t just boil it alive.

In an effort to avoid cruelty against the large marine crustaceans, Swiss government officials have banned the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling hot water, a common culinary practice. The Guardian reports the decision comes “as part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws.” The revamped law orders that lobsters “will now have to be stunned before they are put to death.”

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