1 yr. ago

New Zealand Officially Recognizes Lobsters, Octopuses, Crabs as Sentient Beings

New Zealand officially recognizes lobsters, octopuses, and crabs as sentient beings, leading to changes in commercial fishing.

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Considering how easy it is to kill the lobster before tossing it in, I feel boiling them alive is always unnecessarily cruel.
- Consider the lobster
- I thought that was needed to avoid toxins or something.
  
  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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