Belgium is the largest consumer of lobster per capita in the world - live lobsters are found for sale in supermarkets across Belgium. But when supermarkets sell live lobsters, they are giving consumers free reign over how they transform this live animal into meat. In Brussels, 85% of consumers who kill lobsters at home choose to boil the animal alive, while 15% cut the live lobster in half. These two methods, whilst the traditional ways of killing lobsters, are subject to immense scrutiny from animal rights activists and scientists alike. Read the article on The Brussels Times .
Current affairs according to a European Politics graduate