Honestly that seems pretty reasonable. Boiling things alive is pretty barbaric.

It frightens me that we can't 100% agree that boiling a living thing that feels pain, is bad.

Humans are the worst.

Will always be funny to me that lobsters are such an expensive delicacy at fine dining restaurants when they started out as food for extremely poor people in coastal communities. In the old days the general public viewed eating them as you would view eating a rat today.

Good. This may seem like a joke now but slowly over decades people will stop doing this.

The amount of people that are in knots trying to defend a barbaric practice is quite telling.

With this administration's track record, I'm half expecting this to turn out to be the justification for putting "lobster-verification" cameras in everyone's kitchen.

Uh, does anyone in this thread even know how to kill a lobster?

I feel like this is barely a problem, you usually slice into its head and then immediately boil to avoid any chance of rapid bacteria breakdown. I dont even know if theres any other practical method aside from boiling without slicing into the head.

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

Culinary school recommended a quick kitchen knife through the brain immediately before boiling

It's just silly that this is still a thing in almost 2026. It's so obvious even Hitler banned it, and he was no animal rights activist.

While they are alive and conscious.

That's why I fill my lobsters with propofol before cooking them. People always say my dinner parties are a snooze. I don't know why, I always have a good time. Of course, I don't eat lobster.

I mean…this should be framed as an attempt at fixing an urban myth: that lobster tastes best when cooked alive.

I worked in restaurants for years and we always killed them quickly and humanely before we boiled them.

To me this is just low hanging fruit.