This particular case isn't quite about eating meat or not, rather it's about defining the boundaries of cruelty. Surely most meat eaters would consider boiling

This particular case isn't quite about eating meat or not, rather it's about defining the boundaries of cruelty. Surely most meat eaters would consider boiling a living chicken or cow to be unnecessarily cruel, and most would agree that it should be illegal to do so. This law is just saying that the same rules should apply to lobsters, based on some scientific research.