(CNN) — Lobsters are a delicious delicacy loved by coastal dwellers across the world -- but is boiling them alive inhumane?

In a new law, the Swiss government has banned the common culinary practice of throwing the crustaceans into boiling water while they are still conscious.

The move is a response to studies that suggest lobsters are sentient with advanced nervous systems that may feel pain.

From March 2018, lobsters being prepared in Switzerland will need to be knocked out before they're put to death, or killed instantly. 

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What? You can knock lobsters out and boil them and we haven’t been doing this the whole time?

I thought there was some reason for it, like they didn’t taste as good if they didn’t die in excruciating agony or something- but this just seems fucked up! If we have a reason to boil lobsters alive, then go for it! That reason can be literally anything: they taste better, the meat’s more moist, it takes longer for them to spoil, or their offspring will be too petrified by their deaths to avenge them, it can be anything! That’s the thing, when it comes down to it; we’re cooking these babies up. They’re dead. The minute they get caught by us, they’re dead. It’s a bummer for them, it rules for us, and that’s just how it goes when you’re below someone on the food chain. You don’t see us complaining about the technique with which bears kill us. You don’t see us slapping sharks on the fin because they aim for the leg instead of the neck. That’s just predator vs. prey, man. A lobster’s got to boil.

That whole above paragraph is moot if there’s no reason to boil lobsters alive and conscious. It doesn’t even have to that good of a reason, but it needs to exist. If this is the type of thing where we could just knock them out but we choose not to, then fuck us. We suck. We’re monsters. That’s the worst thing I’ve ever heard. I’m shocked, because I’d just accepted the unexplained fact that lobsters needed to be dealt an excruciating, and blood-curdling death by boiled water; but I guess I never considered the fact that we could be roasting these animals alive for no reason! I’m no PETA member but fuuuuck this. Sure, Leo gets fucked up by that bear in The Revenant, but he’s not being stuck on a spit and roasted over a fire while he grunts. Damn, we are the villain in every lobster’s Bond movie.