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So you will crush a roach or swat a fly? I am all for humane chicken faming methods, et.al. However we are the top of the food chain and we eat everything below. That means it dies. My friends dogs will try to eat his chickens and it is not pretty (he trains the dogs not to of course.) I have a forest full of dear behind my house. I heard the very loud screaming of an animal the other day. One of the deer was lunch for a mountain lion. This is the way it works. If you have an issue with it then do not eat lobster or do not eat meat. I like lobster. If you told me I could do something simple to make their death more human I would, but it’s still going to die and I am still going to eat it.

Edit: English is hard :)

No. Our intelligence and capacity for empathy obliges us to rise above the level of primitive instincts.

Seeing as rape and incest exists in the natural world, by your argument should it also be considered fair game for humans?

This particular case isn't quite about eating meat or not, rather it's about defining the boundaries of cruelty. Surely most meat eaters would consider boiling a living chicken or cow to be unnecessarily cruel, and most would agree that it should be illegal to do so. This law is just saying that the same rules should apply to lobsters, based on some scientific research.

Fascinating thoughts, maybe you shouldn't live in Switzerland.

Thanks captain obvious, Although maybe a more insightful response would have been pointing out the contrast between the modern culture of switzerland and that of nature which lacks major intrusions by humans.

I think the contrast is between the modern culture of Switzerland and that of the US, where people feel that their right to kill animals inhumanely is too important to be legislated away.

Or maybe it's a difference in a country that isn't as bought and sold on the idea that you can fix everything by passing a law.

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