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New Zealander here. I've heard nothing of this and it's been a slow news week.
this post was submitted on 24 Dec 2023
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Now that the bird of the century elections are over, I guess it's hard to get excited about anything else the rest of the year.
Also a New Zealander, looks like the "news" site is confusing New Zealand and the UK?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Welfare_(Sentience)_Act_2022
Doing this to any animal—regardless of sentience—is straight fucked up. Nothing says selfish like torturing an animal to death so it tastes better. Make it quick.
I'm vegetarian, so I'm not defending this at all, but as I understand it, boiling kind of is the best way to kill a lobster quickly. A friend of mine had a roommate who thought otherwise and tried to decapitate one for dinner. I don't know their biology well, but there's something about lobsters' brains spanning the length of their body, so it wouldn't die. Just horribly suffering and bleeding everywhere with a knife through its body. Tossing it in boiling water should near instantly kill it. All the water inside their shell steams immediately.
Unfortunately your roommate seems to have been using improper technique, this video shows how to properly do it.
As far as I know this is considered much less painful than boiling.
Strange thumbnail. The actual title of the article says New Zealand too. Those wacky Pakistani journos!
BNN - a Fox News AI experiment /s
Not the Onion?
I mean, yeah. The bar for sentience is very low. Sapience is a lot higher of a bar.
People have shown that plants can be sentient after all (they can feel pain at least, IIRC). So it makes sense that almost any multicellular organism above a certain amount of cells would be sentient.
Okay. So, put them to sleep then boil them. I am not missing out on my water scorpion food.