Debates between Lord Bellingham and Baroness Garden of Frognal during the 2019-2024 Parliament

Tue 20th Jul 2021

Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill [HL]

Debate between Lord Bellingham and Baroness Garden of Frognal
Baroness Garden of Frognal Portrait The Deputy Chairman of Committees (Baroness Garden of Frognal) (LD)
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My Lords, I have received a request to speak after the Minister from the noble Lord, Lord Bellingham.

Lord Bellingham Portrait Lord Bellingham (Con)
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My Lords, does the Minister think that there is a fundamental difference between a lobster and a prawn? If an image of a prawn is magnified many times, we see that it is not dissimilar to a lobster. Of course, when children go shrimping or catching prawns, whelks, cockles or mussels, those creatures are all put into boiling water, pretty well killed immediately and cooked. Does the Minister feel that there is a fundamental difference between those bigger crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs and the smaller ones?