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Swiss Ban Cruel Boiling Of Live Lobsters. What’s Next?


Your travel4seniors.com editor enjoys visiting the beautiful yodel and cheese nation, However, next time we may not order lobster at our favorite Swiss café. Not that boiling live critters is nice, but I doubt if the Swiss butchers prepare their cattle and poultry with kindness on execution day.

The Swiss law which also covers other doomed animals, also suggests a contradiction in terms: humane death by “rendering them unconscious”, and then dumped into scalding water. The law also gives domestic pets protections, including not preventing dogs from barking. Oh sure, tell that to the neighbors when your hound dog bays at the moon at midnight.

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Our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Haiti.  We urge donations to the Red Cross and other major agencies.   We also express our best wishes to the people of Peru, in Cusco and Aguas Calientes.  We traveled there in August 2008, and would have been stranded had we gone during the flooding last week.

 
 
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