The weird part of all this is lobster was considered garbage only about a 100 years ago.

I live in a rural area and the farmers would use whole lobsters as fertilizer on their fields. This only after anyone bothered to collect them from the beaches, no fishermen were catching them.

Even when people did eat them anyone who did was poor. My mother in her mid 70s said to me kids at school who had lobster were mocked because everyone knew they were poor "Eww lobster".

I wonder what the Swiss law says about shellfish such as clams, mussels, quahogs, geoducks etc. all those are boiled. Compassion is one thing but outright lunacy is another.