The Swiss government on Jan 10 ordered an end to the common culinary practice of throwing flailing lobsters into boiling water, ruling that they must be knocked out before they are killed.
As part of a wider overhaul of Swiss animal protection laws, Bern said that as of March 1, ”the practice of plunging live lobsters into boiling water, which is common in restaurants, is no longer permitted”.
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