Wow, the UK must not have any problems more important than this.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/b...uscs-jpx2whf0v

Boiling lobsters alive will be banned under plans being drawn up by ministers to strengthen the welfare rights of crustaceans and molluscs.

The government is preparing to recognise that lobsters, crabs, octopuses, squids and other invertebrates feel pain as part of legislation that will formally acknowledge that animals are sentient beings.