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.
What do you do with livestock animals that make up 62% of all mammals on Earth?
Stop forcefully reproducing them, sterilize as necessary, let them live out the rest of their lives. It’s not too complicated.
sounds like you don’t actually care about their autonomy.
I do care about the planet actually surviving this. We’ve created way too many animals, the natural ecosystems won’t be able to sustain them all if we release them into the wild and let them reproduce. The outcome will be devastated ecosystems and a lot of animals dying due to starvation. Sterilization is the least inhumane way out of this mess.
Thats not the animals fault though. Why should they pay the price for our mistake?
You’re bascially suggesting that we wipe out entire species of livestock because humans deem their existance is no longer necessary.
Ecosystems can’t accomadate them in the wild yes, but without farming neither can the human economy.
So the only option left is extinction via sterilization.
And that just sounds like animal murder with extra steps.
oh. you’re not vegan: you’re ecofash.