英国：将禁止将活龙虾直接投入沸水烹煮

Boiling lobsters while they are alive and conscious will be banned as part of a government strategy to improve animal welfare in England.

A new strategy issued today says that the tradition of dispatching the delicious crustaceans in scalding water "is not an acceptable killing method".

And the ban is not limited to the large clawed crustaceans. Decapods including shrimp and prawn, and cephalopod molluscs like squid and octopus will also have to face a more humane end.

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.

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