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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 2701627" data-attributes="member: 12952"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/03/07/a-seafood-company-killed-a-lobster-and-was-convicted-of-animal-cruelty/?utm_term=.4380f5937aee" target="_blank">A seafood company killed a lobster — and was convicted of animal cruelty</a>An Australian seafood company was recently convicted of animal cruelty — for killing a lobster.The legally actionable problem was not actually taking the life of the lobster. It’s that the lobster was killed in a way deemed to be unnecessarily — and illegally — brutal.According to the Guardian’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/sydney-fishmonger-convicted-of-animal-cruelty-over-lobster-treatment" target="_blank">description of what happened</a>, workers at Nicholas Seafoods were seen by investigators “butchering and dismembering lobsters with a band saw, without adequately stunning or killing them.” The lobsters’ tails were cut from their bodies while the animals were still alive, in violation of local animal cruelty laws, and led to a conviction that may be the first of its kind in the world.The Nicholas Seafoods killing took place in the Australian state of New South Wales — one of a few Australian jurisdictions to specifically include crustaceans sold for food, like lobsters, <a href="http://kb.rspca.org.au/are-crustaceans-protected-by-animal-welfare-legislation_555.html" target="_blank">in its animal cruelty laws</a>. The conviction was the first in that state, a local spokeswoman for the Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said. The company was fined $1,500.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 2701627, member: 12952"] [URL="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2017/03/07/a-seafood-company-killed-a-lobster-and-was-convicted-of-animal-cruelty/?utm_term=.4380f5937aee"]A seafood company killed a lobster — and was convicted of animal cruelty[/URL] An Australian seafood company was recently convicted of animal cruelty — for killing a lobster. The legally actionable problem was not actually taking the life of the lobster. It’s that the lobster was killed in a way deemed to be unnecessarily — and illegally — brutal. According to the Guardian’s [URL='https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/15/sydney-fishmonger-convicted-of-animal-cruelty-over-lobster-treatment']description of what happened[/URL], workers at Nicholas Seafoods were seen by investigators “butchering and dismembering lobsters with a band saw, without adequately stunning or killing them.” The lobsters’ tails were cut from their bodies while the animals were still alive, in violation of local animal cruelty laws, and led to a conviction that may be the first of its kind in the world. The Nicholas Seafoods killing took place in the Australian state of New South Wales — one of a few Australian jurisdictions to specifically include crustaceans sold for food, like lobsters, [URL='http://kb.rspca.org.au/are-crustaceans-protected-by-animal-welfare-legislation_555.html']in its animal cruelty laws[/URL]. The conviction was the first in that state, a local spokeswoman for the Royal Society of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said. The company was fined $1,500. [/QUOTE]

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