In some parts of the world, it is illegal for chefs to boil lobsters 

alive.    DESSERT INSIDER  Colin Drury,The Independent

Some might argue the most humane thing to do with a lobster would be to just not eat it.

A restaurant in the US, however, is taking another approach to being merciful: It gets the crustaceans stoned before steaming them alive.

"The animal is already going to be killed," Charlotte Gill, owner of Charlotte's Legendary Lobster Pound in the Maine island town of Southwest Harbor, said. "It is far more humane to make it a kinder passage."

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