AR-News: (AU) Chill with the lobsters, chefs told

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

February 18, 2004

LOBSTERS and crabs should make their way to the dinner plate via a quiet 
descent into frozen sleep, and not by being boiled alive.

That's according to the RSPCA, which today issued new guidelines on the 
humane killing of crabs, lobsters and other crustaceans. 
The new guidelines, intended for restaurants, caterers and cooks and based on 
the latest scientific research, are aimed at finally ending the practice of 
killing crustaceans by dumping them in boiling water. 
RSPCA president Dr Hugh Wirth said it was previously recommended by the 
society and government agencies that crustaceans be immersed in an ice slurry to 
chill the animal and render it insensible to pain.




full story:

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8720382%255E13762,00.html 

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