Maybe the citizens have been asking for them to deal with lobbyists and they just misheard

You can have more than one law being established at once.

There has been systematic reduction in the humanities/philosophy, arts, literature etc. In countries. The affect it has is a society focused on work and compliance with status quo. (The USA is actively destroying their own system purposly)

A law ending cruelty should be celebrated as a glimmer of hope that we as a society are still capably of thinking at a higher level, that we are still questioning life, and meanings around it. If we cease to do those things we will be a dead automata society that lives only to work.

Killed a lobster? I've never even tasted one. Sounds like a rich people problem.

Also not to be that guy, but is this really such a massive concern that the government needs to focus on right now?

Labour is flailing. They came into office with an enormous popular mandate to undo the corrupt and abusive practices of the Conservative government, then proceeded to extend and cement these same unpopular policies while engaging in all the same corrupt practices - in many cases taking money and gifts from the exact same people.

This is what they've got. Haphazardly pandering to any special interest group that won't step on the toes of a mega-donor or trip over graft being committed by another influential MP.

Seems like they are more concerned about handling lobsters than their own citizens after they labeled Palestine Action a terrorist group and had anyone supporting them arrested and charged as such.

AIPAC fully has its hooks into the Labour government, especially at the leadership level. In many ways, the sanction on boiled lobster and the sanction on Palestine Rights activists is coming from the same place. A need to crank up policing on everyone everywhere for anything that can justify a government sanction.

The UK police state is metasticizing again.

Most people don't cook lobster and those that do cook it once a year.

No, they don't know how to kill a lobster. They buy it at the store, it sits in the fridge for half a day or two an they toss in in boiling water.

It's such a non issue to dispatch a lobster before throwing it into the pot using your method. The guys who are against it are just fucking assholes.

Ikr. They stopped the lobsters from being slowly boiled alive but not their own citizens lol

focus

How much "focus" does something like this actually require?

Lobsters have a decentralized nervous system, so stabbing it in the head doesn't really do anything. It's pretty much just something chefs started doing to appear to know more than the home cook. There's no scientific reason for stabbing them first.

Two ways to dispatch a lobster.

One is to put the knife behind the eyes, stab down and chop towards the front of the lobster, bifurcating the head.

The other is to put the lobster in the freezer for 30-45 minutes. This slows its metabolism to the point of practical death, so it doesnt feel anything when you put it in the boiling water.

second option is less..actively choppy, so i imagine most squeemish people would prefer that option.

Worked at Red Lobster back in the 90s. The cook would just flip it over, split it down the middle and gut it. 5 seconds, it's dead as a rock.

The best I know is to freeze them first, not like solid, but just for an hour or so which makes them super lethargic.

i guess the moral question is whether that's arguably significantly more humane than skipping the severing step. to me it seems possibly unknowable; either way the thing does suffer the slaughter and the question is to what degree. if there's any culinary or other practical advantage to doing it, and folks believe it's more humane, why not...

It's about as massive a thing as plastic straws and that annyoing little tab in all caps now.