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New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings (bnnbreaking.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Considering how easy it is to kill the lobster before tossing it in, I feel boiling them alive is always unnecessarily cruel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought that was needed to avoid toxins or something.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

That's if you kill the lobsters hours before, generally nowadays it's considered more humane to kill it just before putting it into the pot.

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